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My technology week in review ending 2010.02.07

Mon, 02/08/2010 - 21:03 — DavidSky

My summary of interesting URLs from last week, including stories related to:

  • SQL and DB2 - just CouchDB this week
  • Software development - Simple Cloud API, and David Heineimeier Hansson, of Ruby on Rails 37signals
  • User interface and design - I tried to resist the iPad hype, but here are some interface related stories
  • Podcasts

And for those of you on Twitter, the stories relate to: @simplecloudapi @simplecloudapi @dhh

(As always, most of the text is lifted directly from the related websites and isn't my own text.)


SQL and DB2

Links related to SQL or more specifically IBM DB2.

Why CouchDB? | O'Reilly Answers

In this excerpt from the O'Reilly book CouchDB: The Definitive Guide, we’ll show you how CouchDB’s schema-free document model is a better fit for common applications, how the built-in query engine is a powerful way to use and process your data, and how CouchDB’s design lends itself to modularization and scalability.

Delicious tags: database db couchdb sql Erlang

Software development

Programs and processes used to streamline and self-document the development of software. Agile, Object-Oriented, Online, etc...:
Scott Laningham : developerWorks podcasts
IBM Cloud evangelist Doug Tidwell talks about the new Simple Cloud API and how to participate. "there's a lot of different cloud services for storage, message queues, simple databases and it doesn't really make sense for everybody's servers to have a different way to access it. So the idea behind the group is let's have one way of working with storage, one way of working with message queues and so forth, that makes it easy for me to port my application from one vendor to another. " More details are at http://simplecloud.org/

Delicious tags: Cloud SAAS developerworks development webdev webstandards webservice podcast Laningham IBM
Associated Twitter users: @simplecloudapi

Unlearn Your MBA: David Heinemeier Hansson, 37signals | Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner
David Heineimeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals in Chicago, says that planning is guessing, and for a start-up, the focus must be on today and not on tomorrow. He argues that constraints--fiscal, temporal, or otherwise--drive innovation and effective problem-solving. The most important thing, Hansson believes, is to make a dent in the universe with your company.

Delicious tags: business entrepreneurship development podcast startup innovation 37signals rails mba Stanford Hansson
Associated Twitter users: @dhh

User interface and design

With all the hype over the Apple iPad, user interface design is in the news.
Tablet form factor explorations | The Chromium Project
Chromium visual explorations of how a Chrome OS tablet UI might look in hardware. Some possibilities they explore include: Keyboard interaction with the screen: anchored, split, attached to focus, Launchers as an overlay, providing touch or search as means to access web sites, Contextual actions triggered via dwell, Zooming UI for multiple tabs, Tabs presented along the side of the screen (see Side tabs), and Creating multiple browsers on screen using a launcher

Delicious tags: google tablet hardware technology ui concept ipad chrome os interface

How the iPad is Changing Interaction Design | ReadWriteStart

The CEO of Peraltrees, a visual system that users can use to create mindmap-style visualizations of their favorite websites and Web-based media on the iPad: "The idea of physically touching and moving items on a screen is in the DNA of Pearltrees. We won't need to change much to the interaction design to make it suitable for the iPad."

Delicious tags: design apple semanticweb tablet ipad interface

Multitouch screens in Linux/Xorg/GTK+ on Vimeo
Video demonstrating multitouch support all along the stack, including Linux 2.6.31, Xorg 7.5 (with XInput2) and Xinput2-enabled GTK+ (Experimental branch)

Delicious tags: linux gui multitouch interface UX UCD

AI, Robots, and the Singularity

Artificial Intelligence, augmented reality, human-robotic interfaces, "our intelligence will become increasingly nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful than it is today".

Jaron Lanier discusses his 'You Are Not a Gadget...a Manifesto' | Tech Nation |

Dr.Moira Gunn catches up with internet pioneer and author, Jaron Lanier to discuss his new book, You Are Not a Gadget...a Manifesto, where he discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered digital design and warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the “wisdom” of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals.

Delicious tags: technation book podcast Lanier culture web2.0 singularity gadgets

Podcasts

The various podcasts I listened to this week

Jaron Lanier discusses his 'You Are Not a Gadget...a Manifesto' | Tech Nation |

Dr.Moira Gunn catches up with internet pioneer and author, Jaron Lanier to discuss his new book, You Are Not a Gadget...a Manifesto, where he discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered digital design and warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the “wisdom” of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals.

Delicious tags: technation book podcast Lanier culture web2.0 singularity gadgets

Scott Laningham : developerWorks podcasts
IBM Cloud evangelist Doug Tidwell talks about the new Simple Cloud API and how to participate. "there's a lot of different cloud services for storage, message queues, simple databases and it doesn't really make sense for everybody's servers to have a different way to access it. So the idea behind the group is let's have one way of working with storage, one way of working with message queues and so forth, that makes it easy for me to port my application from one vendor to another. " More details are at http://simplecloud.org/

Delicious tags: Cloud SAAS developerworks development webdev webstandards webservice podcast Laningham IBM
Associated Twitter users: @simplecloudapi

Unlearn Your MBA: David Heinemeier Hansson, 37signals | Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner
David Heineimeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals in Chicago, says that planning is guessing, and for a start-up, the focus must be on today and not on tomorrow. He argues that constraints--fiscal, temporal, or otherwise--drive innovation and effective problem-solving. The most important thing, Hansson believes, is to make a dent in the universe with your company.

Delicious tags: business entrepreneurship development podcast startup innovation 37signals rails mba Stanford Hansson
Associated Twitter users: @dhh

Brett Crosby, Google Analytics - The Path to an Acquisition | Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner
Brett Crosby, Group Manager of Google Analytics, describes the ebb and flow of the process by which his web analytics company, Urchin, was acquired by Google. He also shares some inspirational lessons in making small business loom large.

Delicious tags: Google Analytics Urchin podcast entrepreneurship Stanford