There is a constant flood of new information, meta information, and computing devices to use. The best technical people I've met constantly keep abreast of new advances in technology and still have trouble keeping it all organised. We need a professional to help manage it all. This profession
""I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof." This is how Ron Eglash greeted many African families while researching the intriguing fractal patterns he noticed in villages across the continent. He talks about his work exploring the rigorous fractal math underpinning African
The time it takes to get this technically good is pretty heavy. But we techies don't measure it in time so much as in the hack. How cool is your technical accomplishment? How much power and information does it give you? It's so easy to get
Ok, who's bringing this to Canada - this is cool. I came across Jelly at the always excellent Epic-Fu (formerly Jetset Show). Jelly describes itself as "casual coworking". People are invited to work for the day in a communal environment with chairs, sofas and wireless internet
I picture some Star Trek caricature talking to an alien. They are engaged in intergalactic diplomacy and we need our best scientists to help in the discussion. It's interesting knowing that we as a human race and they as an alien race, would be arguing using some of
Being a Black person usually means that part of your history and reality is invisible to the larger society. I experienced this growing up in a part of Jamaican culture. I say "a part of" because even within Jamaican culture, there's a few different social classes
I've asked for people's involvement in Bob, and got some positive feedback already. That was prompted by my reading and listening of the Cathedral and the Bazaar. I realised that I wasn't being active enough in asking for help / feedback from the developer community.
Eric Raymond wrote the paper, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, where he described the differences he saw in the free software movement (it wasn't called open source yet). Particularly he focused on the development model linux used versus the typical structured development model used in most large organisations
I didn't fully understand what Google's mobile phone platform "Android" (the gphone) was all about until it actually came out. That Google is ballsy enough to try a move like this is cool. What it would mean if they pull it off is really
I didn't really take Facebook as a development platform seriously until I saw this video of a conference of Facebook developers. All of the speakers had quickly monetized their apps and this is fast becoming the story of the Facebook platform. Asia already sees the internet mostly through
I've thought before about the idea of a tool that lets the developer very specifically define the functional parameters and technical constraints of the software he/she is trying to build. Raganwald quotes Joel Spolsky's tough words about the concept, and I'm inclined now,
Being a native Torontonian, I'm always torn between the place. There's so much talent and interesting people there. But as a collective whole, the city is, or at least was, lacking character and something love and endear. There was a stifling inferiority complex that fed into