Facebook | Ed Smiley: Hacking your cell phone for techies

February 8th, 2010 by Ed Smiley

Facebook | Ed Smiley: Hacking your cell phone for techies.

New Banking Regulations and System Oversight: Obama Seeks Bigger Banking Restrictions (VIDEO)

January 21st, 2010 by Ed Smiley

New Banking Regulations: Obama Seeks Bigger Banking Restrictions (VIDEO).

Essentially, if, instead of viewing this as a political process, you view this as a classic issue of system design, decoupling, the reasons for this return to the days of Glass Seligman are crystal clear.

Isn’t Too Big to Fail another version of single point of failure?

Java Kicks Ruby on Rails in the Butt | Ruby-On-Rails

January 19th, 2010 by Ed Smiley

Java Kicks Ruby on Rails in the Butt | Ruby-On-Rails.

A nice presentation, although the Englsih grammar is a little sketchy.  I did think he handwaved a bit about migrations, in that the pseudo-sql in ruby is what is supposed to generate the actual SQL.  Nice summary of model driven development, though.

Best of the blog – physicsworld.com

December 25th, 2009 by Ed Smiley

Best of the blog – physicsworld.com.

Bizarre Physics stories.

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects

December 16th, 2009 by Ed Smiley

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects.

Google’s Search Future

December 11th, 2009 by Ed Smiley

Google’s Search Future – Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group

Jan 6 2010

Wed 6:00 PM
Location
Googleplex (Bldg. 43)
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Tunis Conference Room
Mountain View, CA 94043

http://singularityhub.com/2009/09/10/video-of-kurzweils-latest-talk-at-google/

November 24th, 2009 by Ed Smiley

Video of Kurzweil’s Latest Talk at Google | Singularity Hub

November 24th, 2009 by Ed Smiley

Video of Kurzweil’s Latest Talk at Google | Singularity Hub.

The Principal Principle

November 24th, 2009 by Ed Smiley

is it just me?

A principle is a law or rule.
A principal is a chief or leader or senior.

Why do people ask for principle developers?

Let’s disable site wide posts

October 12th, 2009 by Ed Smiley

If we don’t have anybody to monitor. Too much XXX and ads.