http://www.dollarshort.org/google_sage/ It’s amazing what people search these days.
An article (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/355420/the-hidden-treasures-of-sysinternals) about SysInternals (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/)
Let’s see the trends here… BBS, AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, Blogging, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Buzz… anyone else see the pattern? It’s just the same as before. Different companies always trying to solve some ‘problem’ the previous company apparently didn’t. But if you look closer you’ll find that they are all the same. Communication with more bandwidth usage each time.
I’ve had a lot of complaints about the volume of work given. I’ve even taken criticism from other instructors that I “attempt to do too much during the semester.” There is a reason for that. It is simple. It’s what I do in my day job. I write software, not every single day, but most of my time is spent writing software. So the class is structured to cover both the academics and the real life. From the book assignments every class – to get you programming more often and to give you, the student, a brace as you learn the language. The semester long group project that is by no means meant to be easy. The coding we do in class on the projector are essentially code reviews. The tests are geared for both the school needs and yours, some of you are book learners other are not thus the 50% multiple guess and 50% coding. The coding section of the tests, if you think about it are like bug patching. Very little time to start and finish a problem from the beginning. Finally, everything is due the last day of ‘class’ model is designed to get you thinking about your own time management practices. Those that turn in what they complete as they finish it (think SVN commits) get their results faster and know their grade in the class as they go along. Those that don’t and wait well the code, and for the most part the grade, reflects the rush they needed to turn everything in. Interestingly enough this article from Joel on Software titled Capstone projects and time management just confirmed why I’ve structured the classes the way I have.
Q: Why are you overseas?
A: To protect the lives of our soldiers who are defending our lives, the lives of those oppressed, the liberties our forefathers fought so hard to keep, therefore allowing us to pursue the things that bring happiness into our lives.
Over the years I’ve come to realize that I’m a very firm believer in the Declaration of Independence. I could not be more proud of the United States and to be an American.
So I’m currently in an entirely different part of the world. Helping doing something that I really believe in. I’m nearby people who do great things for those around them. People who give their time and sometimes there lives to something much greater than themselves. Seeing what I’m seeing first hand. Really changes one’s perspective of what it really going on. The sad truth is the way the media currently works. No one really has a clue. The only way to really understand it is to honestly see if for yourself. Amazing simply amazing.
My three year old just said: “Mommy get your phone. I want to txt some people.”
I was looking at the latest news about what is going on and was reading about Nada. I happened to glance and read something about maskups. It was related to this picture on Wired about artist called Girl Talk. While looking for the music on YouTube I kept getting the standard maintenance message. This lead me to twitter to see if there was any ‘buzz’ about it being down. I glanced and the friend feed and since I’ve met and I used to read Robert Scoble who now works at Rackspace where I used to work. This lead me to Traveling Geeks. Followed by not recognizing the geek behind Pop17. Finally leads me to these great photos by Dina Goldstein called Fallen Princesses. I find the last image with Jasmine really striking considering what is currently going on. It’s interesting the mashups and cross linking can lead us to in this tangled thing we called the world wide web.
So some of you have contacted me as to why I haven’t been teaching. First, I had another son. Second, I changed jobs that has some travel. This makes it a little hard to teach. I plan on returning to the classroom in 2010.
Not much in the news department. Still working on various product and offerings.
