" -- Techniques-for, and the value-of sketching interactivity before developing products. Good ideas. OK book.
" -- About finding untapped opportunities in your market and repositioning yourself to capitalize on them. Easy to grasp; Longer then it needed to be.
" -- A thin book with some good best-practices, but a little disappointing. Perhaps it's JavaScript's fault, not the author's ;-)
" -- Good overview of usability issues in designing HTML forms, backed by examples and eye-tracking research. I bought the 
" by Marshall Goldsmith
-- Discusses interpersonal skills (and how to identify and fix them) that most commonly hold executives back in their career advancement.
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-- Lesson: Cut the corporate B.S. and stop wasting your time. Focus only on what matters most.
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-- Lessons on handling tough conversations: firing people, relationship problems, hostage negotiations (well, maybe not that last one.) Wasn't an exciting read, but I've been paying more attention to "turning points" in conversations since reading it.
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-- Lessons in building reusable ("pluggable") Django applications. Assumes you know the basics of Django and Python.
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-- I really enjoyed this one. Lots of suggestions and strategies for negotiating.
fun use of augmented reality as sensor network UI: http://bit.ly/ymlO3
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Glad to see social games and contests like #moonfruit gaining traction on twitter. It’s good to see the experimentation with the medium
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Irradiated cat food causing fatal neurological damage in pregnant cats http://tr.im/qkfE
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Advanced Character Physics – "This paper explains the basic elements of an approach to physically-based modeling which is well suited for interactive use. It is simple, fast, and quite stable, and in its basic version the method does not require knowledge of advanced mathematical subjects (although it is based on a solid mathematical foundation). It allows for simulation of both cloth; soft and rigid bodies; and even articulated or constrained bodies using both forward and inverse kinematics." -
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“Emergency”, by Neil Strauss
I was out on a business trip again last week, and took with me “Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life“,
by Neil Strauss. The book is a first-person account of Strauss’ transformation from a “soft”, urban writer, into a trained survivalist. It’s a wonderfully engaging story.
Here’s the link that put the book on my wishlist:
“How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders”Enjoy!
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i3 – an improved dynamic tiling window manager – Another tiling window manager to look into -
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Jake – "The Collaborative File Sharing Client"… open source app to sync directories between multiple users. -
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Ready for ad-block augmented reality
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Out-of-the-box thinking is easier at the end of a 15-hour workday
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my http://www.easybloom.com/ arrived yesterday. I have it analyzing one of my herb planters today. Looking forward to seeing the data!
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Programming Electronic Music in Pd – An actual book on using Pd (available online or in print.) -
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Impressed with TweetDeck on iPhone so far
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a number of older iPhone apps are now “featured” as new — the same day the new OS came out. Wonder what’s driving that. New customers?
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U-HID http://www.u-hid.com/ looks like a neat solution for prototyping custom HID devices (or building an arcade PC)
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Finished reading “Little Brother”
I took my copy of Cory Doctrow’s “Little Brother“
with me on a recent business trip, and thanks to severe weather delays, I managed to spend over 8 hours waiting in airports and was able to finish the book in one day.
While it’s no fun being stuck in an airport, it turned out to be the perfect environment to read this book. The story follows a high school hacker as he fights the “Department of Homeland Security” to reclaim American civil liberties after anti-terror tactics are taken to a new level. Having the real DHS making announcements in the background about threat levels and unattended baggage, only makes the story more real.
The book targets a younger audience than myself, but it’s still enjoyable. Doctrow does a wonderful job keeping the story believable, and explaining the security implications of the technology we use on a daily basis. Given the theme of the book, I do hope he’s successful in reaching a wide audience and sparking a healthy debate about “national security”, privacy, and civil liberties.
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annoyed that there’s no way to drop a database within #appengine. Be careful loading up on test data!
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if xmarks ran on Chromium I could use this browser more regularly
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pysh – A Python shell with bash-like features.