Mental notes to myself

Joshua Schachter from del.icio.us has really nice notes for the ones that are looking for it.

These are the things to look out for when building a large application on web. Most of them I agree, some of them I don’t. This list also should keep in mind that, real world problems are not that perfect. I marked the ones that I strongly agree with an asterix (*).
I also filtered out the things are specific to del.icio.us from the original text.

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It’s a really nice innovative idea from Siemens to launch the new game augmented reality (AR) football game on the mobile phone for the coming world cup. At last another use of cell phone cameras other than taking up skirt pictures.

Here is a nice screen cap of the game:

This is an interesting article about Noguchi Yukio’s filing system.

Very effective method for notetaking…
Good for meetings.

TCPA: Trusted Computing Platform Alliance is defining what is trusted computing.

Here is another point of view Trusted Computing in this video.

Watch the video and decide if you like to take control of your computer in terms of trusting…

also : What is tcpa?

Update: Official page for the video

TCPA: Trusted Computing Platform Alliance is defining what is trusted computing.

Here is another point of view Trusted Computing in this video.

Watch the video and decide if you like to take control of your computer in terms of trusting…

also : What is tcpa?

I love these hints!!!
Some of are :

• That won’t scale.
• That’s been proven to be O(N^2) and we need a solution that’s O(NlogN).
• There are, of course, various export limitations on that technology.
• If we go with that idea, we’re going to have Don Marti camped out in the front lobby with 300 angry software jihad supporters. (this gave me a good laugh)
• No, that would break object encapsulation.
• I don’t think that’s altogether clear. Please write it up in UML for me.

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The Top 10 worst ways to decide:

10.Fix only the bugs that annoy your CEO.
9. Fix every bug (never ship).
8. Don’t fix any bugs (ship today!).
7. Fix only the bugs that annoy your CEO’s spouse/daughter/pet hamster.
6. Require approval for every decision from the most annoying and least intelligent person in your organization (possibly redundant with No. 10).
5. Start on a bug at random, and when you’re halfway finished, switch to another. Repeat.
4. Play bug hot potato. Don’t fix bugs, just keep assigning yours to someone else.
3. Put bugs in alphabetical order and fix them from A to Z, skipping vowels. (Hint: if you relabel bugs appropriately, this is equivalent to No. 8.)
2.Create a complex parliamentary system of delegates elected by two-thirds majority to draft a charter of bylaws and rules of order for the formation of three bilateral subcommittees empowered to moderate future strategic defect management discourse.
1.Spend all available time debating whether your current process appears on this list.

a nice article is available on OnLamp.

ICQ + L10n sounds like a good idea.
But the bad side of Meetro is I guess, that you have to download something.
All the functionality of Meetro would be on a website…

And what about a dating website together with functionality of Google Maps and blogging…

That would be hot!

After watching the Longhorn- RSS and Browsing Teams 1 hour video, I was so amazed. At first it was something really unexpected from Microsoft. Supporting RSS at OS Level? Having APIs for RSS? Is Microsoft approaching to the open source guys by supporting RSS deeply?

Days passed and I see the things much clearer.

After reading this passage, you’ll understand the Microsoft way and Microsoft’s idea about computers and computer users (plus developers). The question you should ask to yourself is “What is an Operating System?”
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