Category: computing
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Teaching Kids Programming (DNR, MSDN Blogs)
Second grade is not too early to teach girls or boys to program. This episode of DotNetRocks interviews volunteers who are working with their local schools to introduce elementary programming into after-school clubs and even into school curricula. The blog post below is an inspiring account of girls learning to program. Teaching Kids Programming –…
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Do your browser plugin check today! Yes–YOU!
Please keep this browser plugin checker in your bookmark bar at the top of your browser: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ …and click on it right now. There’s a current Adobe Shockwave Flash exploit that affects all browsers around. Please click that bookmark every day, it’s quick, take a few seconds, and you don’t want to spend your time…
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Time to Convert to a Standing Workspace (NPR)
100 Years Ago, Exercise Was Blended Into Daily Life : NPR.
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The psych behind seductive apps (UIESpoolcast)
Ever wonder why your kids really really … really gotta collect that one last Lego toy? Why do you hypermile? Why do you collect more and more twitter followers? Ah: set completion, feedback and scarcity are at play. http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2010/05/19/spoolcast-stephen-andersons-designing-seductive-business-apps-live/
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OpenPlans – Open Source City Planning
Here are some wonderful open source volunteerism-centered city planning web applications being demoed in NY. I really like the idea of letting citizens suggest places to focus city services, not just bike racks, bike paths, but things like schools and bus routes. This could really lower the bar from showing up to city hall with…
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Database Joins, Reddit, NoSQL
There’s been a lot of online discussion about NoSQL this year. Thomas Gideon produced a podcast episode about using NoSQL vs joins. This morning I was pointed to this Highscalability post about Reddit. Quoting: There are no joins in the database and you must manually enforce consistency. No joins means it’s really easy to distribute…
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2010-05-17 Web apps should be fast
Have I worked on any applications that have all 10 of these concepts? It’s an interesting read. It mostly speaks towards building software that has charisma. I don’t think I’ve ever really worked on a product that has charisma. I’ve certainly helped speed sites up, and helped make them more useful. Many products I’ve worked…
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2010-05-16 Ten Dumb Things (TechRepublic)
This list of ten IT no-nos is handy wisdom. Honestly, these things happen to all us IT people, and I’ve certainly learned some lessons here.
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All Ur Friendz R Belong To Us
This is a good graphic displaying how Facebook’s “public” policy is now.
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