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You might give some thought to how this relates to the lack of diversity (esp.) gender diversity in our field. It ought to be the starting point for a great discussion. Perhaps HN …

This five-part exchange between a public education advocate and a member of the Gates Foundation team working on education was eye opening. http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-…

Wow. Very surprising (in a bad way). Basic Web architecture: 1. expose resources, 2. resources have names (URL), 3. allow basic actions on these (GET, DELETE , PUT, POST ) as neede…

Wise comments. If Yahoo was smart, they'd hire Hilary Mason.

BMI is not a record company. It is a performance rights organization. Lots of independent label artists have their work registered through BMI (myself included & I get checks quart…

Great stuff! "But the world would be a better place if more engineers, like me, hated technology. The stuff I design, if I'm successful, nobody will ever notice. Things will just w…

http://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll buy a pizza joint.”

yes -- scripts I have had memory problems with stopped having such problems when I rewrote them as procedural (not OO) code.

Although I've heard 5.3 fixes some of the issues, PHP is often not suitable for long-running scripts due (I believe) to memory consumption (when using OO code). I believe it is an …

When I was in college, taking a Shakespeare course, it was standard practice to go up to the music library (where they had LPs of nice productions of the plays) and listen at 45 rp…

Python + Google App Engine

Fingerstyle guitar. http://peterkeane.com

The Boys' First Book of Radio and Electronics. Author: Morgan, Alfred Powell, Publisher: New York, Scribner Date: [1954] The Boys' Second Book of Radio and Electronics. Author: Mor…

David Sklar's "Learning PHP" and Dagfinn Reiersol's "PHP in Action"