October 2009
4 posts
“While people have been reading on screens for decades, we are only a very few...”
– Does the Brain Like E-Books? - Readers’ Comments - NYTimes.com
Interesting discussion on the NYTimes, worth reading. I’m copying over my comment.
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One Ring to Rule them All?
Is Adobe closing in on the one, common, cross-platform, development solution? Yesterday they announced updates to the Flash toolkit to allow for cross compilation and output of native iPhone applications. This means that the million plus Flash/Actionscript developers can now use Adobe tools to create and publish apps to Apples app store. A nice piece by Hank Williams got me thinking about this....
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Neats vs Scruffies, Duct Tape vs Clean Code
There’s been an interesting back and forth recently (the latest of many) between Joel Spolsky, author of the popular Joel On Software blog, and Bob Martin (aka Uncle Bob). Joel writes in praise of The Duct Tape Programmer, Uncle Bob defends Clean Code. This is an eternal debate in the software community - the ‘just get it done and ship the code’ folks, verses the ‘do it...
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Literary Mashups
A couple of interesting recent news articles point to the ways in which physical- and e-books; and text and other media, are increasingly converging. Today’s NYTimes has a front page article describing book-video and physical-online hybrids being released by several publishers. And lest week my friend Jeff at Harvard Bookstore was highlighted in Wired for his ability to publish books on...