Tag: through technologies
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MacFuse – Sweet
Ok – so maybe it’s a sign of just how much a shiny-gadget-geek I am, but I love what’s possible with MacFuse (and MacFusion). For example, I have an existing website (at omnis.com) that doesn’t have a ssh account, so the only way to deploy / work on what’s there is via FTP. So when…
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Sophie, Squeak, Croquet
There seems to be more and more instances of platforms appearing which raise the level at which people can create, manipulate and share rich content in a rich context. Sophie appears to be another interesting entry, in addition to Croquet and the etoys work in Squeak.
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Firedoodle – persistent whiteboard in your browser
Nice tool, nice example of using Firefox as a platform, and nice example of how small ideas are proliferating: Firedoodle … is a Firefox Add-On that allows you to mark up any page as if it was projected onto a white board. You can download the plugin at Firedoodle.com and if you register an account,…
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Startup enthusiasm (not) versus pragmatism
I love the start-up environment – in part because of what happens when we ‘drink the kool-aid’, but at the same time I also value ‘fail-it-fast’ pragmatism. I haven’t found an eloquent way to think about or express this conflict – until I randomly came across an interview with Scott Brave from Baynote Inc. on…
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Inspiration on patterns and paradigms beyond OO
A great audio program on experiential computing (IT Conversations: Ramesh Jain – Experimental Computing) and Ramesh’s related blog (Ramesh Jain’s Blog » Blog Archive » Events and paradigms) gives me some inspiration to on two important points: Patterns in Oggidigaw – using the notion of events with their attributes of who, what, where (spatial), when…
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How can Model Driven Architecture Be Successful?
How can model driven architecture (MDA) be successful (or any approach where higher levels of abstraction are necessary) when software engineers are not yet settled in real OOD?
Steve Sanderson 