Sean has a reputation for a take on technology that can seem to be "out of left field," but is guaranteed to get you thinking. Sometimes contrarian, always insightful, he offers a unique perspective on the practice of programming and on technology in general.
The world of IT is embarking, I suspect, on a another period of language creation hype. This time, the hype epicenter is Ruby and the facilities it provides to create custom languages.
I spend a lot of time drawing pictures to explain technical concepts. How can that medium - the quick paper-based sketch - be best turned into a web format? Here is what we have come up with. We call them techtorials.
As a species, we generate some unconscionable amount of new digital data every day. The number is so big that no member of our species, that I know of, really has a good feel for the number. To try to wrap our heads around it we resort to desperate analogies e.g.
From time to time, my long suffering wife asks me what the heck I do all day and where all the techie problems that furrow my brow to a depth of 0.5 inches come from? It is a really good question and recently I have been expending some energies trying to figure it out.
I had one of those weird moments recently where I made an analogy between two things that I have never before analogized. Namely, multi-tasking operating systems and project planning. I will get back to that in a moment but first, I have a possible reason why weird analogies are popping in my head that I would like to spend a minute on.
There are many aspects of the IT business that have been turned upside down the internet. One concept which is effectively being meaningless is the concept of a "version" in the sense of an application software package version number/name or an operating system version number/name.
Where Google Chrome security fails: the password I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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