Starting our day we have Scobleizer writing again! Today we get an excellent post on spatial computing and what Apple and Tim Cook need to do. Ted Neward writes about the value of failure. In particular, he talks about what you can learn from failing over the years. Janelle Quibuyen gives us a great post… Read More Geek Reading June 1, 2016 #1118
When Google Reader made its recent changes, the first thought many people had was what RSS reading options were there? I think many of those people complained about the lack of the old sharing and the loss of RSS feeds for peoples shares. This means that the people who used Google Reader were not really… Read More Google Reader Is Not About Reading News It Is About Curation
Today, the Google Reader team announced the general rollout of the new version. It is with much dismay that I see the overall changes that have occurred with this new version. I like the idea of having my Reader shares (now +1’s) appear in Google+. This was something that I wanted since Google+ was initially… Read More Google Reader Changes And Feeds Go Missing
Last month, Twitter and Facebook made some moves to hide RSS feeds and put focus more on their APIs. There was the typical ranting that followed the news, some in favor of RSS and others not. Now that the conversation and controversy of RSS being killed again has died down, I wanted to address the real… Read More The Rise Of The API, The Future Of The Web
There is an interesting discussion occurring regarding data transfer in web applications. The discussion has centered on the differences between JSON and XML in the JavaScript heavy sites. It started with Norm Walsh commenting on Twitter and Foursquare removing support for XML in their APIs. The basic idea of his post was that if you are… Read More The Problem Is Not JSON Or XML, It Is About Data Context
I have previously talked about digital curation and that you should follow my shares in Google Reader. The problem is that only some of you use Google Reader, some use Google Buzz and everyone else is using Twitter and Facebook. I do not want to clutter my Twitter stream with my 40 shares per day,… Read More Helping With Digital Curation
This post is just a quick note to let people know that the blog has visually changed. There is a new layout, not completely different than before, but definitely different. One thing you will notice on the right side are the new social images. There are convenient buttons you can use to follow me on… Read More Regular Geek Gets A Redesign Mostly
Last year, I wrote about the ten most talked about posts of 2008 on this blog, and I figured it would be a good idea again for 2009. This list contains the posts with the most number of comments. Some of these are the same as those with the most page views, but some are… Read More RegularGeek Most Talked About Posts of 2009
Yesterday, Richard MacManus of ReadWriteWeb wrote about the RSS reader market being in disarray. One of the interesting trends of 2009 has been the gradual decline of RSS Readers as a way for people to keep up with news and niche topics. Many of us still use them, but less than we used to. Richard… Read More RSS Readers Are Fine, But They Are Niche Products
Last week I mentioned receiving an email asking what a software engineer typically does. In that post, I talked about defending technical decisions. Today, I am continuing this thread by talking about design. In many companies and projects, design occurs before any development is allowed to start. This is considered “Big Design Up Front” or… Read More Software Engineering Tasks: Design
Regular Geek 