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What Open Source shares with Science
Blog One of the overlooked advantages that Open Source development affords, is that it imitates perhaps the most fruitful and beneficial of all human endeavours: Science. There has never been a similar period in human history, with the possible...
[June 12, 2009, 10:52 in Khaotic Musings by conz]
$100 laptop: moving from a technical to a social debate.....cont.....
Talkback Let's not forget one of the greatest capacities of human kind: a child's ability to learn a language. My suggested keynotes would be from the 3 people I think at present have the most potential to shape human evolution: Kofi Anan, Al Gore and...
About: Why every child deserves a laptop
[November 13, 2006, 19:04 by English_Man]
Smile like you mean it: developing for the commercial web 2.0 world
Blog Next month’s event has a session I plan to attend entitled, “Becoming human; smiling like you mean it, and learning to say hello
,” to be presented by Denise Wilton, creative director of Moo.com - and quite apart from loving their business cards...
[August 28, 2008, 14:46 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Terse markup for speed -- NOT
Talkback XML documents should be human-legible and reasonably clear. OOXML violates the principle that "XML documents shall be easy to create .and] be human-legible and reasonably clear. If you study the OOXML spec, it quickly becomes apparent that the...
About: Google: OOXML 'insufficient and unnecessary'
[February 28, 2008, 21:05 by Marbux]
Flawed waterfall software
Blog human circumvention and bridging - there’s always the option for human factors to bridge or sidestep the flow of the falls and there are several road bridges in just such places at Niagara, so humans may decide that they don’t want to go with the...
[December 18, 2007, 16:08 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
A Norwegian Technology Odyssey
Blog I've been impressed by Norwegian engineering excellence since I read Thor Heyedalh's seminal book Kon-Tiki Expedition, which detailed the travels of a bunch of seemingly foolhardy ethnographers setting sail by raft from Peru to the South Seas to...
[June 26, 2009, 9:09 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Cisco reaches deal with flaw researcher
Talkback Quade, VP Human Resource, NetSolve Jeffery Guillot, Vice President Development, NetSolve Russel Sellers, Product Development, NetSolve Cisco used its legal Muscle for Lynn to voluntarily agree to a permanent Injunction, 2.agree to refrain from...
About: Cisco reaches deal with flaw researcher
[July 30, 2005, 21:54]
Cisco reaches deal with flaw researcher
Talkback Quade, VP Human Resource, NetSolve Jeffery Guillot, Vice President Development, NetSolve Russel Sellers, Product Development, NetSolve Cisco used its legal Muscle for Lynn to voluntarily agree to a permanent Injunction, 2.agree to refrain from...
About: Cisco reaches deal with flaw researcher
[July 30, 2005, 21:54]
Cisco reaches deal with flaw researcher
Talkback Quade, VP Human Resource, NetSolve Jeffery Guillot, Vice President Development, NetSolve Russel Sellers, Product Development, NetSolve Cisco used its legal Muscle for Lynn to voluntarily agree to a permanent Injunction, 2.agree to refrain from...
About: Cisco reaches deal with flaw researcher
[July 30, 2005, 21:55]
Show blog day 2: IBM Rational Software Developer Conference 2008
Blog IBM is staying sensibly clear of saying that it can manage and control human elements as huge as culture and is instead asking for implicit transparency in the lifecycle process to try and combat the gaps that exist between teams around the world.
[June 3, 2008, 23:47 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Carbon Capture - putting off today what others will have solve tomorrow
Talkback Indeed, if this vast amount of carbon leaches out of the ground or oceans in the future, we might as well say goodbye to human life on this planet. Therefore the world has to force forward what the independent scientific community is saying, for if...
About: EC launches green tech push
[November 25, 2007, 22:25 by davidhill]
Does Microsoft & RIM search deal herald better usability?
Blog Web usage on a BlackBerry can be pretty good - I managed to find out that Bristol City had been beaten by Hull in the Championship play offs 40 miles from the nearest human being in the middle of the Pennsylvania mountains this summer.
[September 12, 2008, 8:55 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Does content management send you to sleep?
Blog Whichever platform is used, the human qualities of intelligence, creativity and discipline are needed to feed it. As a pure play application development consideration, its proximity to web development is extremely close.
[March 30, 2009, 9:11 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
The developing world needs well-developed ideas
Talkback Rather than use these for wide spread education and human development, we have squandered them on bloated systems and featuritis. This is one of the reasons we are running on human power. If our aspirations are one socket and one megabit per...
About: The developing world needs well-developed ideas
[March 21, 2006, 19:57]
Then why does the same spreadsheet load faster in ODF?
Talkback The OOXML markup is terse because Microsoft didn't want to spend the development resources to make it human legible, not because it speeds processing of documents. The short story here is that you were taken in by a bit of Microsoft smoke and...
About: Google: OOXML 'insufficient and unnecessary'
[February 29, 2008, 16:42 by Marbux]
Usability conference promises scents and sensible IT
Blog If you're involved in creating any sort of IT and don't care about usability, you're wasting your time, your users' time, and quite probably holding back the human condition from evolving to a higher form.
[August 19, 2009, 16:12 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You can probably write the news story as well as I can -- thousand times thinner than a human hair, ten times smaller than ever before, five zillion will fit onto the head of a pin if you knock the dancing angels off first, etc.
[December 13, 2002, 16:39 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Web 3.0 Community Launches for Semantic Web Developers
Blog Our goal is to help drive towards a more comprehensive web, based on an understanding of the full range of human interactions in content and conversations,” said Mike Petit, CIO of OpenAmplify. As we know, human beings can use the web to look up...
[June 19, 2009, 8:18 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
The latest trend in online recruitment
Talkback This allows orgainzations the new ability of succesion planning and training intiatives to foster and retain human capital development. In 2000 I started development of an on line system that would allow skill filtering, gap analysis and skills...
About: The latest trend in online recruitment
[February 12, 2004, 19:39]
Gates mocks $100 laptop
Talkback SCF is made up and supported by ordinary poor people passionate about the development of our fellow human beings. I am also the Development Queen Mother for two towns and one village in the Northern, Middle and Southern Regions of Ghana.
About: Gates mocks $100 laptop
[March 21, 2006, 15:54]
