It's time again to clean up the tabs in my browser. Here's some of the stuff I've been keeping my eye on...
Excerpt from interview with Dean Kamen. I'm going to need to pick up the issue of Make so I can read the full thing. Some of his comments about wasting time and working on the most important thing really hit home. They reminded me of Paul Graham's essay on procrastination, the good kind and the bad. Joshua Porter has an extended excerpt from the interview in his article about product innovation. I think it should be posted up on the wall of any place creating things.
A couple from Terra Nova: a look at whether players in WoW actually utilize the social dynamic and Lipsticking the Chicken.
Ian Kallen doesn't understand the fuss about the recent companies built around code search engines. He points to an ONJava article dealing with Lucene that I had forgotten about.
Some thoughts on Ben Franklin Tom Peters as well as his 13-point plan for virtuous living.
Seth Godin talks about edges and clusters in relation to products and services.
Rails 1.1 is getting Integration Tests which really well-done at least from the snippet posted.
Dave Astels announced that a new version of rSpec is out. It's his Behavior Driven Design tool. I still need to look into it more as well as finish reading his initial paper on it.
Jeremy gives some thoughts on Edgeio. I hope to have some longer thoughts about it as well soon. Also check out his earlier post on publishing to the edge.
Greg Linden puts together a good overview of the various opinions about manual vs. automated tagging. Also, the big 3's vision of the future of search.
Bill de hÓra shows the need for Data Classes as opposed to the blanket statement of don't use them. More on it from Tony Coates.
Ben Hammersley reminds us that no matter what technology you use, the only thing that matters is getting some into a user's hands.
The Lucene Web Service API based on Atom.
SQL Databases and Internet applications
Eliminating the Non-Essentials
Blog about creating little languages in Python.
Building Decision Trees in Python
Posted by Josh at March 1, 2006 08:29 AM