Content Here: Code moves forward. Content moves backward. - about the migration of code and content in various environments.
My Conference Presentation: "Just Put That In The Zip Code Field" - why content modeling is so important to a CMS project's success, with evaluation and implementation tips. via Content Here.
Tim O'Reilly: Radical Transparency: The New Federal IT Dashboard (and check out the site itself at it.usaspending.gov)
Data.gov iteratively grows from 47 to 100,000 data feeds (source Atrios)
EveryBlock blog: EveryBlock source code released
Tim Bray: "Hello World" for Open Data - Tim Bray reviews, and is inspired by, happenings in Vancover.
And locally SEPTA has started to work with Google to help riders plan trips online
A huge round of thanks needs to go to the folks behind iSepta for showing just what is possible.
This and more was discussed at this year's Personal Democracy Forum - which I missed, which I hopefully won't next year. Sounds like it was a great event.
Related:
O'Reilly radar: John Geraci: The Four Pillars of an Open Civic System
Ignite Philly 2: Geoff DiMassi and Paul Wright "Open Source Philadelphia"
Martin Fowler coins a useful term: "Illustrative Programming": languages that "fuse the execution of the program together with its definition". "Illustrative programming requires information from the actual running of the program." He uses Excel as an example.
I think MIT's Scratch provides an example of this as well. I need to pass it along.
New Yorker: Malcolm Gladwell: Priced to Sell - a scathing review of Wired's Chris Anderson's new book "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" and the concepts promoted within.
NYTimes: Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia - the NYTimes coordinated with Wikipedia staff to keep a factual event from appearing on the service.
Say Everything: Chapter One: Putting Everything Out There [Justin Hall]: a review of Justin Hall's history and his efforts on the Web. How they laid the foundation for all that came later.
NiemanJournalismLab: Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian's (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment
Scott Rosenberg: Salon.com IPO: It was ten years ago today
Chris Anderson (not Wired's): We've Been Living Through a Twitter Revolution for the Last 10 Years
YouTube: (Michael Jackson) Billie Jean - Sungha Jung:
Wow.
I had posted the following to Twitter, but it belongs here:
"11 years old, standing on chestnut st. near 11th, outside store, watching tvs play Thriller thru a window. that was me."
Michael Jackson's death triggered moments of reflection for many. So many that services across the Web struggled to stay functional as people either reached out for news, or to share their memories with one another.
He stands as a kind of Rorschach test. What you think of him and his contributions to music and entertainment are dependent on you - the information published about him you cared to absorb, rationalize, relate to, or reject.
He was a force. He left an imprint.
YouTube: Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" cover by Amanda Palmer (live):
Some links:
WNEW.com: The Epic of Michael Jackson
Metafilter: Ongoing thread
Attytood: The Love You Save: Michael Jackson and the rear-guard Baby Boomers
NPR.org: Michael Jackson: Life Of A Pop Icon
Susie Madrak: The Life and Death of Michael Jackson
Jeneane Sessum: Have You Seen My Childhood
Comcaster Scott Westerman: Michael Jackson's place in the pantheon of our lives
Lisa Marie Presley: He Knew.
CSMonitor: Outpouring over Michael Jackson unlike anything since Princess Di
Koax! Koax! Koax! (via boing boing): Some thoughts on Michael Jackson
YouTube: I'll Be There Acapella:
And lastly, a very deep thought by co-worker John: "The Michael Jackson we knew died a long time ago"
Fellow CIMer Mr. Aaron Held: Designing a new Infrastructure is like buying a new car:
** You usually start this process due to a crash **code: User gen data + no cache eviction = FAIL
car : SUV from the side + swerve = One less Stop sign.
Shelley Powers: Car Repair:
Car repair is not a linear progression, with incidents sweetly spaced so as to remind us, gently, that nothing lasts forever.It is an aggregation of aggravation, where one failure begets another, in clumps timed to crest when your wallet is flattest.
Fellow CIMer Livia Labate shared some advice for those looking to get started in Information Architecture.
At a recent brown bag she reviewed a number of great design games for generating ideas.
I'm really looking forward to reading Scott Rosenberg's "Say Everything".
I'm sure "Say Everything" will be a book I can share with others (which I do with "Dreaming in Code") to provide them insight into why I do some of the things I do and why I get so damn passionate about them.
Writing a book on blogging's history and how it related to the Web, Internet, and society is a difficult task. Based upon excerpts I've read so far, Rafe's review of the first half, and reading his fantastic "Dreaming in Code", I know this book is going to be terrific and insightful.
Speaking of blogging, I got to agree with Rafe - the most awesome thing about blogging *is* "corresponding with so many of the people I met through blogging back then here, on Twitter, and elsewhere.".
Absolutely.
Thank you Web.
While gearing up on a content management project, a few developers were wrangling with how to share solution diagrams between Visio and OmniGraffle. While there is a level of compatibility between the two, its not ideal. While researching, I went off into a related tangent, a cross platform tool that I can manipulate from a text editor or programming language, and ended up reading about Graphviz.
Graphviz - command line tool and DSL (dot) to define and render graphs and diagrams.
Doesn't sounds like much, but check out this magic: Visualizing traceroute output with Ruby and Graphviz or how about Maven based dependency graphing?
I think prefuse (with the unbelievable looking flare) is an excellent related toolkit to look into next (interaction and animations!!!!!) .
O'Reilly: An Introduction to GraphViz and dot
O'Reilly: Graphviz - Why draw when you can code?
Orgmode.org: org-exp-blocks.el: pre-process blocks in org-mode files in Emacs to generate diagrams - rocking!
Bernt Hansen's fantastic Org Mode - Organize Your Life In Plain Text! is a working example of the above org-mode use case (and a great org-mode tutorial)
Forever for Now: UML Diagrams Using Graphviz Dot
Haven't read or experimented with yet, but will...
Linux.com: Create relationship diagrams with Graphviz
IBM developerWorks: Visualize function calls with Graphviz
Graphviz Resources - large list of viewers, navigators, language bindings, etc
WikiViz: A large list of related tools and libraries
ZGRViewer: a Java-based desktop GraphViz/DOT Viewer - Adds interactivity to viewing a dot defined graph.
Good guides for those that need a quick dive:
Wikipedia: CIDR notation. Terse. Without understanding of IP addressing and subnets worthless. So the following give a better big picture:
Cisco: IP Addressing and Subnetting for New Users
MediaWiki's guide to blocking ranges: Help:Range blocks
Yahoo! Small Business Help: What is CIDR?
Microsoft: Understanding TCP/IP addressing and subnetting basics
Great to hear an acupuncture treatment helped Susie get back to her guitar.
Arthritis in the hands is scary. Part of me is thankful my pain stems only from the back.
Past few weeks I've been getting to my garage and plugging in here and there. Becoming re-acquainted with an old friend.
Speaking of that, I've been spending the past day transferring old recordings of myself jamming with friends and bands from long ago from cassette to my computer. Around 20 or so cassettes, so its a big job, probably will take a week or more. And I'm doing this, one side of a cassette == one .wav file (for expediency's sake). Breaking down to individual songs will take a bit.
At work props go to Michael Bevilacqua-Linn and his great brown bag on Clojure. I think it helped a few of us not only get exposed to Clojure, but Lisp as well.
Here are some great starting points for the procedural-biased:
defmacro: The Nature of Lisp - absolutely fantastic. Uses Java and XML examples to help bridge the conceptual divide.
Ward Cunningham's WikiWikiWeb: LispUsersAreArrogant entry.
Steve Yegge's Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp
Stuart Sierra: Clojure is a Lisp worth talking about
News and Blog: Getting it
Steve Yegge: Emergency Elisp
Me? I have a lot of practice ahead of me to become proficient, but since Emacs is my editor, it comes naturally.
Jaffe Juice: Blogging is dying and Twitter is to blame
Chris Pirillo: Are Personal Home Pages and Blogs Dying?
ProBlogger: Blogging vs Twitter
Sysan Mernit: Thought-blogging versus twitter/lifestream/community
Linux.com: Abandoiung your blog for Twitter
As for me, I'm keeping the blog.
hetland.org: Instant Hacking - very fast introduction to the language and even programming in general.
Dive Into Python - Experienced programmer in other languages should choose this. My favorite introduction to Python.
The Official Python Tutorial - more thorough starter - take a day or so to go thru it and absorb.
Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python - a must read sooner or later.
Yahoo!'s Python Developer Center - full of info and good links.
InfoQ: Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture - how guardian.co.uk employed DDD in the development of its new CMS and Web management framework.
Wikipedia: Domain-Driven Design
Related:
Comment: On colour-modelling techniques and Archetypal Domain Shape
BBC - Radio Labs: How We Make Websites
To read:
InfoQ: ebook: Domain-Driven Design Quickly
InfoQ: Video: Jimmy Nilsson on Domain Driven Design
InfoQ: DDD in Practice
InfoQ: Domain Driven Design Content on InfoQ
JavaWorld: Domain-driven design with Java EE 6
Engineering@Facebook: Hive - A Petabyte Scale Data Warehouse using Hadoop
Yahoo! Developer Blog: Announcing the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop
Dries Buytaert: Drupal and Alfresco
Jeff Potts: Screencast: Alfresco-Drupal CMIS Integration Demo
Jared Ottleys: Using Alfresco to manage blog content
Read: Ken Robertson: Blogging apps are the new Hello World
Example: Disqus: A Django Primer - Creating a Simple Blog Application
Example: Sapphire Steel: How To Create a Ruby On Rails Blog - Part One
Red Hat Magazine: Python for Bash scripters: A well-kept secret
IBM Developerworks: Using Python to create UNIX command line tools
PLEAC - Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook - Python
Django: Quick Install Guide
Treu Piepmeier: Installing Django on OS X Leopard
Solutions Log: Installing Django & Sqlite on OS X
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