October 2008
13 posts
The motivation for documentation
It’s a truism of knowledge work that more time and energy is expended in communicating about the work that is being done than is used in actually performing the work.
As generations of technologists have discovered and rediscovered, to be truly good at what you do and perceived to be so by your customers and coworkers, you must not only do what you do, you must document it clearly so that...
Acer Aspire One User Forum →
Hack central for aspire one owners.
Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design →
O good, a clear tutorial on something I’m not very good at but need to do on a regular basis.
Knowledge: The Loss You Can't Afford in a Down... →
This article gets to the very core of what I want to talk about at Industrial Intellect. Knowledge is becoming one of the key factors of production. Both the explicit knowledge that is captured in documentation, design and in organizational communications. But also the implicit knowledge that workers build up about how to access knowledge, and what the exceptions are, and what customary practice...
13 Of the Best Linux Tutorials and OpenCourseWare... →
A fairly comprehensive starting point; good to hand to smart people who are curious about linux.
Aho/Ullman Foundations of Computer Science →
Classic Textbook on computer science
Hairdresser or Web Designer?
Going to see Vint Cerf talk about protocols.
The Shapely Manual →
It’s a library of 2-dimensional set operations on geometry. Get your mind out of the gutter.
UI-patterns.com →
Nice clean site with lots of examples.
Interaction Design Pattern Library →
Fairly good resource for interaction design.
Cheap, Fast AND Good. Mechanical Turk Tagging. →
Mechanical Turk is brain work on the piece rate, and I suspect that it will not remain cheap for long.
The promise of the World Wide Web.
Back in the boom days when the web was still under construction we all had glorious ideas of what it would be and how it would work and what we wanted from it.
Back then we thought the promise of the internet was that anyone anywhere would be able to find out whatever they needed to; and that anyone who had something to say could find as much audience as they deserved.
We still have a ways to...