Monthly Archives: September 2007

Knowledge Maps

I was browsing through facebook today (a facebook user visited my blog and I clicked on the incoming link to take a look). I found moneylet, a social bookmarking site for financial news. There was an item on Forbes report

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Simple Innovations: No Printer? No Problem!

I got this email as a Rapid Rewards member from Southwest Airlines today. It made me happy. If you do not use Southwest, some background is in order. There are no seat assignments in Southwest Airlines. You take seats on

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Social Spaces and Creativity

I was born in a city and lived my life in some of the most crowded cities in the world – Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Bombay, New York. About 10 years ago I moved to the Silicon Valley and now spend

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Vigorous Writing is Concise

Vigorous Writing is Concise I borrowed this phrase from Jon Bentley, who in turn was quoting William Strunk Jr.’s observation in Elements of Style. Jon says that this is true in both English and Programming. In this chapter titled The

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Learning Learning and Thinking About Thinking

From OLPC Wiki Children need to learn learning, which is primarily acquired through the passion that comes from access, the ability to make things, to communicate and to express. Writing a computer program, while seemingly esoteric, is in fact the

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LinkLog: Sep 24, 2007

The Interrupt Driven Life I am on to about 5-7 such activities, myself with one or two primary ones that take up most of my time. Hacker News Just discovered it today. Through Reddit. Hype Cycle Technology Trigger ->Peak of

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Simple Innovations: Personal Unit Tests

For those of you who are not into software, unit tests are small test scripts/programs to check the health of software development. Unit tests are used to make sure that the code runs as expected and when you make changes

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Recognizing Software Metaphors

Chris Wood has a great blog post on Software Development Metaphors. He lists a set of software metaphors under broad categories like: Traditional Software Development Metaphors Software Development as a Factory Software Development as Engineeing Software Development as Model/Architecture Software

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Looking for Ideas for Blogging?

Here is a nice list from 100 Blog Topics I hope you write. The nice thing about this list is that you and I can take the same topic and may end up writing very different things. I wonder whether

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