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- Lego opens up Mindstorms NXT firmware
- Lego opens up Mindstorms NXT firmwareLegos made me and engineerLegos frickin' rule. Maybe toys with microcontrollers will get the US out of our current educational/engineering slump. Or maybe they won't sell because the kids are too lazy... we'll see.
- Tags: MINDSTORMS NXT, Legos, LEGO Co., firmware
- Discussion threads 2006-05-03
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- Eee PC's 7" version: A hot toy this year
- Toys R Us released a list of what it sees as the hottest toys this holiday season and the usual suspects were there: Hannah Montana, Legos, Star Wars figures and the Wii. And then there's the 7-inch Asus Eee PC. I heard a few folks refer to...
- Tags: Toy, Toys R Us Inc., Nintendo Wii, Eee PC, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- An Event Apart 2008: Day 2
- The second day of An Event Apart will feature plenty of web standards jargon. I will be posting photos and notes from today's events. Unfortunately, the slides are reserved for attendees only, but I will try to gather as much information as...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microformat, Tool, Post-it Note, Eric Meyer, CSS, Productivity, Keyboards, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- What is the best language for our kids to learn?
- What is the best language for our kids to learn?Absolutely. But don't forget...that your kids have a reason to learn them: they are exposed to all of them every day. In the US, most people can't even tell you the names of more than 5 languages. But the reason...
- Tags: English Speaking
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- The tattered history of OOP
- The tattered history of OOPCalling for Mom ..SOAP etc are not themselves messaging based, they're messaging protocols - i.e. message carriers that are not internally implemented using object messaging.OOP!Crieky, I had no idea OOP had been through so much! We're just about to start using Zend Framework PHP, I might...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, Programming languages, Message Passing, object-oriented programming, Java, Smalltalk
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Modu claims lightest mobile phone; Will you buy it?
- Modu on Tuesday touted its Guinness World Record for the lightest mobile phone--weighing in at 1.41 ounces--but is that a reason to buy it? The question is largely academic since modu--an Israeli company founded by Dov Moran, who sold msystems to SanDisk--launched just a month ago. However,...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, SanDisk Corp., Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Cosmos%3A+An+open-source+.Net-based+microkernel+OS+is+born
- Cosmos%3A+An+open-source+.Net-based+microkernel+OS+is+bornawesome...another alternative, lightweight OSMicrosoft ought to rebuild Windows on top of its stripped-down kernel so that Windows can run efficiently with fewer resources.Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....."[b][b] can't hold a candle to Linux."please cut the crap![i]Cosmos is 100% C#. The only assembly is emitted by our compiler.[/i]Last time I checked C# code was plain...
- Tags: Programming languages, Operating systems, .NET, cosmo, open source, Microsoft Corp., Java, operating system, compiler
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Cosmos: An open-source .Net-based microkernel OS is born
- Move over, Microsoft Singularity. There's another microkernel, .Net-based operating system in town. And this one's available under an open-source license. Known as Cosmos, the new, independently developed operating system OS is the brain child of former Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism team member Chad "Kudzu" Hower....
- Tags: Open Source, Assembly, Operating System, Compiler, Microsoft Corp., Kudzu, Cosmos Frequently Asked Questions, MJF, C#, .Net, Operating Systems, Middleware, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Enterprise Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- (Photos: A golden anniversary for Lego)
- (Photos: A golden anniversary for Lego)I love the last picture with the dad playing with the set...I love the last picture with the dad playing with the set, cuz it's so true. :DHow many parents out there bought their kids LEGO just so they could play with it? :)RE: (Photos:...
- Tags: LEGO Co., golden anniversary, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- Images: Blocking memorable scenes with LEGOs
- Beloved bricks take on starring roles in Internet shorts, from "Napoleon Dynamite" to "Thriller." by CNET News.com
- Tags: Brick, Scene, Internet, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-09-20
- Another view: Don't expect SOA to fix ERP quagmire
- Abandon all hope, all ye who run ERP or enterprise software....That's the dour message from Cynthia Rettig, writing in MIT Sloan Management Review. Rettig says that ERP, or enterprise software systems, have ultimately provided little gain for companies, because they have become too complex and overbearing. SOA, seen as a...
- Tags: Software, Enterprise Software, ERP, SOA, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- Photos: Happy developers in da house
- Some 150 people gather in a Los Gatos, Calif., mansion for SuperHappyDevHouse, a 12-hour marathon of coding, hacking and socializing.Participants of the 19th SuperHappy DevHouse hackathon session descended on Tom Harrison''s family home last weekend in Los Gatos, Calif. Harrison far left opened his house up to some 150 tech...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, SECURITY, photograph, Amit Patel, SuperHappyDevHouse, Los Gatos, Facebook, San Jose State University, hacking, chief technical officer, Ohio State University, University of Washington, online v
- Image galleries 2007-08-16
- Denise Caruso: Anti-social media defeats progress
- Author and New York Times columnist and Hybrid Vigor Institute founder Denise Caruso, whose new book, Intervention, just arrived, launches the Supernova Conference with a call for diversity of ideas, conversation and, ultimately, collaboration. Leaping forward without first talking, discussing the potential benefits and consequences of a new technology creates...
- Tags: Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- SaaS Opens Up SOA Beyond the Firewall
- The convergence of service-oriented architecture and Software as a Service lays open the possibilities of bringing in services from outside the firewall, which can be "snapped" into place within a company's infrastructure. This also means that services a company creates can be introduced to a broader market beyond the firewall.Miko...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Photos: Scenes from South by Southwest
- At the Austin, Texas, multimedia extravaganza, interactive media melds with music, film, Legos and parties.
- Tags: extravaganza, Austin, Texas, multimedia, photograph, music, media
- Image galleries 2007-03-12
- News to know: Windows Live debunked; 3GSM; Internet do over
- Notable headlines: Windows Live: A guide for the perplexed. Screen Shots: What Windows Live Is and Isnt.Schneier: Do not upgrade to Vista.BlackBerry patent app depicts “pickpocket mode." Can Executives Find Happiness With a BlackBerry Minus Its Scroll Wheel?More buyers home in on Office 2007.Vista Hands On #1: What you...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Photos: At the Toy Fair, lots and lots of Legos
- The heavily guarded Lego camp arranges its blocks into Spongebob and George Lucas, dinosaurs and sharks, and a Martian colony.
- Tags: LEGO Co., colony, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-02-12
- LEGO blocks and SOA: is the singularity near?
- I just saw a demonstration of a fairly intelligent, spider-like critter on CBSs David Letterman last night that was built from LEGO blocks. (One of LEGOs Mindstorm bots, to be exact.) The woman demonstrating the spider-bot for David said it was equipped with computer software components that controlled its movements....
- Tags: LEGO Blocks, LEGO Co., General
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Does the SOA LEGO analogy have legs?
- Does the LEGO analogy for SOA have legs, or is the theory for blockheads? Theres been a lot of interesting reactions to my recent post on the "LEGO-block" analogy used so often for SOA-based deployments.Coincidentally, ZapThinks Jason Bloomberg made a very good case for the LEGO analogy at the same...
- Tags: SOA, LEGO Co., General
- Blog posts 2006-12-15
- Why are we building 'enterprise' SOAs with 'LEGO blocks'?
- Why are we building 'enterprise' SOAs with 'LEGO blocks'?SOA is around usYou can find another analogy applicable as well: http://roman-rytov.typepad.com/miles/2006/12/soa_is_around_u.htmlLEGOJust try to build a nice fortress with LEGO blocks. Then after you finished it, you want to change one little Lego block somewhere in the middle of the wall. You...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, NOW HERE, lego, SOA, Lego-block, LEGO Co.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-10
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