Noise to Signal - geek webcomic
Posted by Jeff February 25, 2008
Some very geeky humor…hope they don’t mind hotlinking. My faves:
Factory Pattern
Posted by Jeff February 22, 2008
no Guice or Dependency Injection jokes from the peanut gallery…
No TagsMacpaint for the Web
Posted by Jeff February 21, 2008
Vimagi is a lot of fun… Flash-based drawing with playback. Kids could do drawings for their parents/grandparents to play back. Some suprisingly good stuff here - I never got the hang of drawing with mouse, it’s like drawing with a bar of soap.
The drawings are embeddable, but WordPress keeps eating my tags. via the brilliant Dave Pollack
No TagsPattern for a Book Review Group
Posted by Jeff February 20, 2008
I’ve been thinking about books a lot lately.. I’m awash in them, and it’s hard to know which are worth the time. LibraryThing is my source for promising veins of content from like minds. Now all that remains is…well, reading. Put the browser down. Something I’m finding tough in the age of NADD.
A book review group, meeting in person, would help. The Oxford Extremists are a good model. They meet once a month/two months to discuss a book.
The mechanics are pretty simple:
- participants vote via blog blog comments.
- A scribe summarizes and posts the discussion. This must be a lot of work but it’s quite valuable.
- A list of books is kept at LibraryThing. This enables a blog widget.
More background on how this came to be:
- Poster - done as a comic, quite entertaining
- Knowledge Hydrant: a Pattern Language for Study Groups
The Pattern Language paper is full of terrific ideas on the structure and vibe of a healthy group.
No TagsDigg for HDR, hdrcreme
Posted by Jeff February 03, 2008
Looks like there’s a brand new community voting/ranking site around HDR photos. It’s running slow but a note says they’re upgrading their servers-
