February 2009
101 posts
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Theodore Roosevelt (via avenues)
“Mr. Sullenberger and Mr. Skiles took the opportunity to plead for reform of an...”
– Air Traffic Controller Tells Gripping Tale of Hudson Landing
Many times when I’ve been training to get my pilots license I feel like I’m living in the shadow of the 50s, that I’m some sort of anachronistic throw back and people don’t do this stuff any more. Check out his...
tircd - →
“This book would be a great gift from a parent to a child who is interested in...”
– Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » New Biography of V.S. Naipaul
“Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches.
Of all...”
– Lessons Learned: Work in small batches
“While on the phone with the Snapple executives, this reporter took the...”
– Reading the Tea Leaves, Snapple Refreshes Itself - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com Snapple to use real sugar instead of corn syrup.
SHIFD - Developer Area →
SHIFD - Shift Content Between Your Devices →
SemantalyzR | Semantics Analyzer | SemantalyzR →
nytexplorer →
blprnt.com | there is an art to evolution →
SpatialKey Data Visualization Home →
Boundaries →
Gnip: We got $h*t to pop →
Overheard at a conference
B: i think as tim's talk gets a little more boring/old i can hear the sound of typing get louder
A: ha
B: TAPPITY TAP TAP
A: like reverse applause
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Tokyo Cabinet: Beyond Key-Value Store - igvita.com →
Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment with... →
E-11: 11 Erlang Problems — Hypothetical Labs →
“The attention to detail at Google is remarkable. Jeff gleefully described the...”
– Geeking with Greg: Jeff Dean keynote at WSDM 2009
Case Study: How WordPress uses jQuery | Steve... →
WatchThe Eames’ “A Communications Primer” on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
“The E-Myth is a small business classic. It tells small business owners that they...”
– Giles Bowkett: Want Fries With That?
Charlie Rose - Interview with CEO of Nvidea
I’m really digging the black video-background on the back webpage-background. Also, the interview is interesting.
Charlie Rose - A conversation with Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO Nvidia
Reading in SVA's MFA program of Interaction Design
SVA posted a list of their reading recommendations for interaction design. Funny that I’ve read a huge chunk of these — and I try to stay as far away from the front end as possible. Here’s my one sentence review of what I’ve read.
The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman — Good at the time but nothing really stuck with me.
Envisioning Information, Edward...
purzelrakete's workling at master - GitHub →
pauldix's feedzirra at master - GitHub →
meshU →
Agile Testing: Load Balancing in Amazon EC2 with... →
smarthistory →