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Presentations and the Zen Aesthetic

Presentations and the Zen Aesthetic is a great writeup about how presentations can be made to the essence of simplicity. I personally think it applies directly to a lot of other things, most recently including software design. I’m sure some of my coworkers are sick of hearing me burst out “if you’re not using it,Continue reading “Presentations and the Zen Aesthetic”

Mind Camp – a few days later

Wow, so a whole bunch of people have dug around and written about Mind Camp. Scoble, while taking the a pot-shot at Google, has some links if you’re interested. If you want pics – check out Flikr with the tag mindcamp10. I think Ted’s writeup is the most complete, and captures the event pretty well.Continue reading “Mind Camp – a few days later”

Jarhead

Mindcamp is over, and it was really good. Very worthwhile, although I’m a bit tired after the whole thing. So what do you do? Well, you follow it up with taking in Jarhead with a friend for a sunday afternoon matinee. Wow – that’s a damn good movie. It hits close to home for me,Continue reading “Jarhead”

MindCamp

Getting… Sleepy… MindCamp has been variously boring and really interesting, depending on the moment, discussion, and relative proximity to random happenings all around. I’ve got to say it is much more successful than I expected. There’s folks that I’ve written back and forth with over the past several years that I’d never met until tonight.Continue reading “MindCamp”

FreeBSD 6.0

Hmmm… FreeBSD 6.0 is hittin’ the streets. Going to have to check this out…

Testing web apps (Python, Twill)

Michele Simionato has an article up at OReillyNet on testing web applications, focused mainly around python and Twill. Twill is a neat little mini-language thing, and he mentions Selenium at the very end of the article. I wish he’d looked a little more into Selenium. The more I see of it, the more I thinkContinue reading “Testing web apps (Python, Twill)”

Old feature, new twist for VoodooPad

Gus‘ VoodooPad has had the ability to run code inside it for quite a while. It was one of the coolest features for me, providing me a massive snippet library of python tidbits as I was working out a problem. Now someone else is really getting into that same style – and Garret is takingContinue reading “Old feature, new twist for VoodooPad”