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Open source needs designers
It's been a slow progression. First, I moved from Eclipse, for years my Integrated Development Environment of choice, to NetBeans, which I've been using for the last year or so. It's faster, leaner, and less prone to bringing down my computer for no readily
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Agit props
My talented friend Michael Goldrei designed the icon set for Agit, a Git client for Android by Roberto Tyley. Git has become the creative geek's source control system of choice, and having a native Android client is a great thing. (Source control allows the source code for an
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The device is the conduit; the cloud is the platform
The other day, Steve Jobs stood up and announced iCloud, which replaces the PC as the hub in the iOS device ecosystem, demoting it to just another device. You no longer need to have a PC to activate or synchronize an iPhone or an iPad. This is right, and proper,
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The crusade against college
Recently, there's been a lot of buzz in tech circles about college being a waste of time. It started with investor Peter Thiel's creation of the Thiel Fellowship, which awards potential students technology & entrepreneurship mentorship and $100,000 of incubation money to work on their
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A humble suggestion for HTML5 video
This is an embedded Flash video from latakoo Flight: If you're viewing this post on an iOS device, or anywhere else where Flash isn't supported, you're not going to see the video. I'd dearly love to use the HTML5 video tag, which
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Why you should not build an open source startup
Teambox's post about why you should build an open source startup is doing the rounds right now. It's a great piece, but I thought I'd reply with a few reasons why you might want to think long and hard about it: * Free (as in
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Hacking culture
I've always thought that the term "the cultural sector" was a bit disingenuous, because it makes the assumption that science, engineering and everything else under its umbrella can't for some reason be a part of "culture". Ditto "creatives": it doesn&
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Moving
Things have been quiet on this blog lately, and they will be for a few days more. I have a lot to talk about: * Culture Hack Scotland, which was not just a blast, but a groundbreaking event for both the Scottish cultural sector and its technical community * Impref.me, my
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"Basecamp was done almost entirely without risk."
I really like this quote from 37 signals: Basecamp was done almost entirely without risk. It was completely self-funded. We treated it as a side-product and a side-project until it could pay the bills. And only then did we make it the main focus of the company.
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httpID: adding identity to standard HTTP requests
This is a more technical post than I've been writing lately. I'm considering splitting out into two blog channels; let me know if you'd prefer this. This is a request for comments and ideas. Please let me know what you think in the comments.
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Bookstores and serendipity
Here's one of my favorite places on Earth: It's called the Norrington Room. It sits in the basement of Blackwell's, the oldest bookshop in Oxford (where I grew up), and when it was opened in 1966 it was the largest room full of books