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bTeaching - finally!

I've been wanting to start this site for years, finally doing it. Its not themed yet, but a bit of content is there: bTeaching.com - everyday ideas for learning and teaching. The idea is to capture teaching ideas, large and small, and relate them to subjects, age

Why do we program computers to interrupt us?

I despise typeahead options. In conversation with a friend, it would drive most people crazy if their friend kept finishing their sentences for them, or worse providing them with options! Yet we program computers to do this to us. Nothing disrupts my train of thought worse than suddenly being reminded

Tucson Developers' Co-op

Check out http://tucson.devcoop.org, where me and a few friends are kicking off a new group of indie developers who get together to check out each other's stuff. I like having collaborators but can't stand meetings, so this is an 'unmeeting' -

Big projects have three stages...

"I've learned that big projects have three stages: fantasy, dream and plan. The fantasy stage is all in your head, obviously, but eventually you decide you're ready to get a little bit more real. The dream stage is where you actually start thinking about the

Trust and Journalism

Much has been written about the impending demise of journalism. No doubt, papers and magazines are in trouble, and with them the usual revenue stream of the professional journalist. Ellen Goodman wrote a recent column in which she made a great call that crowdsourcing leads to the basing of facts

Who's in the Hot Seat?

On a related note to the last post, I have been wondering what became of the "Hot Seat" group therapy developed by Bill Sands and the inmate Ezra Kingsley. From what I read it sounds pretty effective - its sort of honesty therapy. In The Seventh Step, Sands

Which Books behind Bars?

I've seen a flyer at Antigone Books in Tucson about a Books behind Bars project or something like that that sends books into prisons. I think its a great idea but another incident made me start thinking, which books? One day I took a walk in the Santa

The ultimate organizer - will it be a web app?

One of the holy grails of programming is the ultimate personal organizer, that place where you can put all your stuff and find it exactly when you want it. In some incarnations it knows what you want before you do; in others its a passive but perfect file cabinet. Many

Useful Telecommute Links

The real telecommute jobs are often found squirrelled away in forums specific to certain frameworks or languages. Here's a few that are useful to check: StackOverflow telecommute jobs are high quality and posted often Dice telecommute jobs if you like big companies that can afford Dice http://startuply.

How flexible is WordPress...

I have most of my stuff in my own MySql app - lets see if I can get it to show up here fairly easily while keeping the original as the authoritative version...