What changes for developers with Web2.0?

An older article, but a good one, and I tend to agree. You can get a feeling of some of the arguments from the comments, but it's a great read.

Software isn't written for Web 2.0 companies the way it was during the bubble, nor is it written the way traditional, shipped software was. New ideas about Web applications seem to necessitate new ways of making those applications.

Web 2.0 Development

One particularly controversial point is the changes to QA... is the standard way of doing QA no longer relevant? What happens when the community builds the site? How can QA properly test against a snapshot of a point in time, even with source control?

T

Asus Eee laptop

You guys hear of the Asus Eee laptop?
Asus Eee at NCIX

Looks interesting... reminds me of One Laptop Per Child project, except for North American families. Small laptop running Linux with built-in wifi, $400.

Slashdot article about the Eee

Optimus Prime truck on eBay

I couldn't miss this... there is a sweet rebuilt 1994 Peterbuilt made up to look like Optimus Prime from the recent movie.

The eBay listing
Engaget posting

Very cool.

Checking out Twitter

Just checking out twitter, kinda cool!

T

Goodbye Grandma!

Our grandmother on my mother's side passed away last night. She was an amazing woman, and in many ways she was a bond that held the kids and grandkids together. Although it wasn't a complete surprise in terms of health, it came quickly.

Goodbye Grandma, you will be very missed.

Why the Opposition to Technology?

As always, a great article from the Mises Institute - Why the opposition to technology on the right?. Discusses the history behind some of the conservative opposition to technology, pointing to writings by Christopher Dawson.

From Jeffrey Tucker on the Mises blog:

From his first published work Progress and Religion (1929), to the lectures given during the twilight of his career in America, he was emphatic in the judgment that the chief enemy of culture is not liberalism or the other secular religions of progress, but technology...

A feature of Jesus's life that is particularly compelling is that he never reminisced of the glories of the days gone by. He didn't express regret that he was born in 1A.D. instead of 300B.C.. He never drew attention to an economic advance of his time and said: this tool has corrupted us! No, he took it as a given that he was born in his time for a reason.

Absolutely, well put.

Tony