http://blog.brianrosenthal.org From the trenches... Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:55:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 I learned so much about programming from Zvi Boshernitzan - how to embrace and build on existing tools, reducing redundant code with dynamic binding, the power of pushing the limits of languages. Zvi Boshernitzan is now running Robocommerce, LLC and engaged in a project to help kiva.org optimize its web site ... http://blog.brianrosenthal.org/2007/03/31/zvi-boshernitzan-jedi-programmer/ This is the coolest idea I've seen, possibly in my entire life, and the best gift idea that I've ever seen: http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org is a new idea in economic development. It's peer-to-peer micro-lending, the way Skype is peer-to-peer telephony. What the developing world needs most is access to capital, and this site ... http://blog.brianrosenthal.org/2007/03/31/kivaorg/ I just went to SDWest (awesome!) and learned about commonality variability analysis. I think it's one of the most important advances in computer science theory out there, and it's worth a blog entry. Zvi and I spent years trying to come up with a core idea for how ... http://blog.brianrosenthal.org/2007/03/31/commonality-variability-analysis/ There are three things that will follow you your whole live - your body, your soul, and hopefully, your family. Everything else is temporary. http://blog.brianrosenthal.org/2007/02/10/a-good-perspective/ Programs should be no more complicated than the problems they are trying to solve. Ideally, they should be much less complicated, because the complexity can be reduced to interfaces to extremely mature software. However, there is an intrinsic complexity to most problems, and in an effort to express and control ... http://blog.brianrosenthal.org/2007/02/08/programs-that-are-too-complex/ http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6184618910.html http://blog.brianrosenthal.org/2006/12/13/finally-linguistic-parsing/ An amazing plugin. Will revolutionize medicine by automating medical billing. http://blog.brianrosenthal.org/2006/12/13/chickenfoot/ http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/13/1515217&from=rss http://blog.brianrosenthal.org/2006/12/13/agh-mysql-is-dropping-support-for-debian-linux/ Ubiquitous wireless access: That is the key innovation that's enabling this... You know, wireless area scramblers would be a good countermeasure against this... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xg078_robot-sentinella http://blog.brianrosenthal.org/2006/11/16/robots/ Just like many people who grew up in the 60's and 70's resisted the Internet and computers in general, only to decide that they had to catch up later, our generation is missing the use of the Internet in collaboration. Every single person should learn: 1. How to create a wiki ... http://blog.brianrosenthal.org/2006/09/05/tools-that-everyone-should-learn/