Just who are the “Weborati“[1] you ask? And where does the term come from? Well, to answer the latter question, It’s a neologism that just made up; please don’t shoot me for it. :) As for the former, they are people who either created – starting with Tim Berners-Lee – who have passionately shepherded the …
Wrox’s Professional Web 2.0 Programming
I’m excited as I just got my express delivery of Wrox’s Professional Web 2.0 Programming by Eric van der Vlist, Danny Ayers, Erik Bruchez, Joe Fawcett, and Alessandro Vernet. I’m anxious to read it to learn their take on programming for Web 2.0. I first learned of the book when I noticed in my logs …
What is a RESTafarian?
A RESTifarian is a zealous proponent of the REST software architectural style as defined by Roy T. Fielding in Chapter 5 of his PhD. dissertation at UCIrvine. You can find RESTifarians in the wild on the REST-discuss mailing list. But be careful, RESTifarians can be extremely meticulous when discussing the finer points of REST, as …
The White Man’s Web 2.0 Club
After attending The Future Of Web Apps, I looked around for fellow attendee bloggers and while searching found Chris Messina’s post about the lack of diversity in the speaker lineup. Several commenters then started getting riled up to the level of a virtual lynch mob with comments like: Damned if I’m going to give hundreds …
The Hanselminutes Podcast: Very Shiny!
Since I left Xtras several months back, I’ve finally had time to spend learning once again. I’ve focused my attentions in two primary areas: That which can be called Web 2.0 technologies (especially related to RSS and Mashups), and Things related to .NET development. One of the true gems I’ve come across in the latter …
About “One Laptop per Child”
If you’ve not heard of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) you should listen to this presentation Nicholas Negroponte gave about his $100 laptop at the February 2006 T.E.D. conference which I found over at the T.E.D. Blog. I learned of the T.E.D. blog by reading If your idea is worth spreading, then presentation matters over …
Starting a New Chapter in Life…
Those of you who follow my blog are aware it has been a long time since I’ve last posted. Some of you already know what has been going on in my life, but most of you don’t. For those of you who do not as well as the rest of you it’s time for me …
Borland gets Tod Nielsen, former bigwig in the Microsoft developer divison
What goes around, comes around. Microsoft steals Anders Hejlsberg as C# chief architect; Borland picks up former Microsoft developer divison honcho Tod Nielsen as CEO. Admittedly not an apples-for-apples comparison, i.e. development vs. marketing, but it is interesting none-the-less. Given his tenure at MS’ devdiv, I’d be surprised it Tod doesn’t do a good job of …
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Outsourcing Realities: Time to Stop Whining
I “borrowed” the title of this post from this op-ed from SDTimes by Edward Yourdon. Ed latest book OUTSOURCE : Competing in the Global Productivity Race was just released and I guess he’s writing op-eds to promote it. I’ve planned to blog about outsourcing for a while, but haven’t gotten to it because of the …
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The Wonders of a Stress Free Lunch
I just finished blogging about my mini-vacation weekend riding motorcycles in the north Georgia mountains with my father, but I decided to split it in to because this was logically seperate. After we left Suches, Georgia on Sunday around 1pm, we traveled south to Dahlonega, Georgia to meet Kathleen Dollard who had scheduled to have …