There are lot of echos on the blogosphere about reboot. The best summaries I have seen so far are from Laurent Haug, who blogs at bohellz. Check them out! And sorry Laurent, that I didn’t manage to show RoR to you – are you in Zurich any time soon? Technorati Tags: reboot7 Read more – ‘Excellent summaries of reboot presentations’.
Something good is coming out of the NSA — a guide to secure various operating systems. I have cursorily glanced over the XP and the OS X guides and learnt quite a bit. This goes to my reference stack and will be thoroughly reviewed soon. Very interesting reading! Operating System Security [via vowe] Read more – ‘The NSA secures your computer’.
In the my-external-brain dept. What happens when Microsoft designs an iPod cloneCreating validating XHTML forms with NotesPraise the SMTP designer at Lotus (actually, that’s more like: slap them for not implementing this sooner)Five steps to implementing GTD (Getting Things Done) with Lotus NotesEric Mack on using Notes for Action management Read more – ‘Quick Links’.
What is this? The 20 Questions A.I. couldn’t guess it… I am guessing that it is astrology? Yes , No , Close 29. I guess it an equation? No. 28. Would you use it in the dark? No. 27. Can you eat it? No. 26. Can you control it? No. 25. Is it comforting? No. [...] Read more – ‘20 Questions’.
Of course Matthias Leisi has been online for quite a while. Now he has his own braindump on the web. Welcome to the club! Read more – ‘Matthias online’.
Another thing found 100 Years Of Turbulence by maciej who hangs out on #joiito. This article beautifully links the history of flight with patents – and gives a very good example of why patents are a bad thing. Also a blog to put on the read list Read more – ‘F(l)ight Patents’.
I have enjoyed the The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master and the Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide books by Dave and Andy Now they have written two new pragmatic books with a third on the way: The Pragmatic Starter Kit with books on CVS and JUnit already available. I’ll be buying them after [...] Read more – ‘Pragmatic Books’.
The book “Getting Things Done” by David Allen is one of my all time favorites. David has helped my productivity enormously with his workflow process and most of all the idea, that you need to get all of the things you need to do out of your head and on paper so they will stop [...] Read more – ‘52 ways to getting things done’.
Jef Raskin was the man responsible for the Macintosh. I stumbled on his website a couple of days ago and read about his explorations on Interface Design. Intrigued about THE (The Humane Environment), a new paradigm for interaction with the computer. Interestingly enough, I haven’t been able to see THE yet – the screenshot image [...] Read more – ‘Reading: The Humane Interface’.
I’m a big fan of Willam Gibson. I was heavily influenced by the Neuromancer series and I (think) I have read all of his Sci-Fi novels over time. So when I started reading again (instead of sitting at the computer all the time) it was time to pick up his (not-so) new book: Pattern Recognition [...] Read more – ‘Reading: Pattern Recognition’.
