Web/Tech
-
Continuous Partial Atttention
Well over ten years ago, I took a programming course given by my then-company. Each student was seated in front of a computer. To our surprise, these computers were on the company network! This made it simple to check email, etc. during the class (while otherwise ignoring the class itself) Fast Forward a few years. Continue reading
-
The Math You Learned
Steve Yegge has posted an essay, entitled Math For Programmers, in which he posits that Most programmers think they don’t need to know math Most programmers are correct, but… Math is a lot easier to pick up after you know how to program They teach math all wrong in school (at least, in terms of… Continue reading
-
Knowledge Sharing
Trackback URL for this post: http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/trackback/190 Continue reading
-
Internet Ties
With the help of the internet, people are able to maintain active contact with sizable social networks, even though many of the people in those networks do not live close to them. Continue reading
-
The Interactive Web
In the beginning, we had websites, both corporate and personal, the latter generally referred to as “home pages”. Then, as people began to realize the potential of the writable web, we saw the emergence of weblogs and Wikis. As we move forward and more people get involved, we’ve seen an explosion of choices in social… Continue reading
-
Tech Support Motivations
There are very few interpersonal problems which cannot be solved by a suitable application of high explosives. Rich and I frequently get into “discussions” with people who provide technical support for the various applications we run (this includes mailing lists, forums, and the “official” tech support addresses). The cause of the “discussions” is a fundamental… Continue reading
-
We Are The Web
Ten years ago, Netscape’s explosive IPO ignited huge piles of money. The brilliant flash revealed what had been invisible only a moment before: the World Wide Web. As Eric Schmidt (then at Sun, now at Google) noted, the day before the IPO, nothing about the Web; the day after, everything. — from… Continue reading
-
Tech Support – No Thinking Required
There’s an old joke: The Software people will tell you it’s a Hardware problem. The Hardware people will tell you it’s a Software problem. If all else fails, both will blame the Network. Today’s modern “Tech Support” seems to reduce this to one easily-remembered primary rule: It’s not our problem. The job description for many… Continue reading
-
To Wiki or Not To Wiki (take 2)
As I mentioned a few months ago, the Company I work for has been giving serious consideration to moving the Development section of the Intranet onto TWiki. However, when I spoke to one of the engineering managers last week, I learned that he is considerably less ecstatic now about using the Wiki for all of… Continue reading
Slightly Off KIlter 