Earlier this month, Jonas Luster invited me to speak at WikiWednesday. I didn’t have anything prepared, and I didn’t feel particularly motivated to prepare anything, so, I told Jonas that I was just going to rant. Jonas, being Jonas, loved the idea. So after IIW wrapped on May 3, I headed up to Palo Alto. [...]
My buddy, Justin Lin, has a company that recently migrated from J2EE to Ruby On Rails, and he’s been thrilled by the results. This morning, we were IMing about Agile Programming, and something he said about Unit Tests really struck a chord. He said that their tests softened their fear of change, which changed the [...]
For those of you in the Bay Area interested in learning about the HyperScope, we’re going to be doing a public jam session tonight (Tuesday), 6-8pm at SRI in Menlo Park. We’ll update y’all on the status of the project, and you’ll have the chance to meet and interact with the team. We may even [...]
For once, my infrequent blogging will work to my advantage. I had a Lynne Truss moment at a talk I gave the other day, and since I’ve given a bunch of talks over the past month — all unblogged — I can write about the incident here without revealing too much about who the offender [...]
At last Tuesday’s HyperScope meeting, Jonathan Cheyer and I spent an inordinate amount of time debating the syntax for HyperScope URIs, much to the amusement and chagrin of our peers. Although the topic may seem insignificant, it is actually quite layered with no easy answers. I’m going to summarize the issues here. Most of you [...]
Jonas Luster recruited me to speak at WikiWednesday tomorrow (May 3) at 6pm at the Socialtext offices in Palo Alto. My topic: A No-Holds-Barred Techie Manifesto on How to Make Wikis Truly Kick Ass. Truly. So come. You will not regret it. (KI1)
I gave a talk on user-centric identity at the Internet Identity Workshop today. I was going to give a stock talk on how to rejigger your software architecture to incorporate this new breed of identity systems, but because of a last-minute shakeup of the schedule where I ended up first on the schedule, I decided [...]
At last week’s SDForum Collaboration SIG meeting, Scott McMullan introduced me to Scott Li Pera, whose e-mail .sig is a great life philosophy: (KHN) Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something. –Unknown (KHO)
