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Tech Tuesday: Checking In With Readers
Albert Wenger – Feb 19, 2013
So far Tech Tuesday has covered basic computing technology (9 installments), an overview of web technology (11 installments) and an introduction to programming (a whooping 29 installments). So once again it’s time to survey readers to see what folks would [...] Read more
A Powerful Reminder from the Sky
Albert Wenger – Feb 15, 2013
Very short post today as I ran out of time in the morning. There was a meteor strike in Russia that apparently injured over 1,000 people. This is a powerful reminder that we should be spending way more on scanning [...] Read more
Wikipedia as a For Profit?
Albert Wenger – Feb 14, 2013
I use Wikipedia all the time. Sometimes to Susan’s dismay I will look up the answer to a question that has come up in conversation in the middle of dinner (I find that easier than remembering to look it up [...] Read more
Plympton and DailyLit
Albert Wenger – Feb 13, 2013
Today Susan and I are excited to announce that DailyLit has become a part of Plympton. We are big fans of Jenny, Yael and Jacky, the co-founders of Plympton, and love their commitment to serial fiction. DailyLit provides a great [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Concurrency (Conclusion)
Albert Wenger – Feb 12, 2013
One of the things I always realize as I write Tech Tuesdays is just how much there is to potentially know on any given topic. Entire books have been written on concurrency alone and there is already a long list [...] Read more
Turning 46
Albert Wenger – Feb 11, 2013
Today’s my birthday and I am turning 46. I quickly searched Continuations (via gawk.it) and it appears that I last blogged about my birthday three years ago. I am happy to report that not much has changed. Despite a fairly [...] Read more
Micropennies: The Beginning Not the End
Albert Wenger – Feb 8, 2013
I have been meaning to write about the NY Times piece on royalties in the age of streaming music. People have talked about how real dollars have turned into digital nickels when music went online and sales went from records [...] Read more
HTML5 – Is Now the Time?
Albert Wenger – Feb 7, 2013
I have started a series of posts which I called Scylla and Charybdis – or why startups are hard. The idea is that on pretty much anything you can err on both sides and only a relatively narrow middle will [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Concurrency (Locks, Mutexes, Semaphores, Oh My)
Albert Wenger – Feb 5, 2013
Last Tech Tuesday, we learned about atomic actions as a way of dealing with the problems arising from concurrency. I ended that post by pointing to the limits of atomic actions – most notably that the operating system and/or database [...] Read more