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Think Platform: Imagine a high school or college student working late the night before a paper is due. The libraries are closed when the student starts to work on the Bibliography. What if the student's word processor could transparently use Amazon as a resource for creating a bibliography. The student types in the title, author, and publication year of the book and a correctly formatted entry is created with the publisher and other information correctly filled in. Tim O'Reilly included this example as he riffed for a while on the idea of Amazon as a service and a platform at MacHack 2002. » Read more
(July 28, 2003 7:25AM PT)
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A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy:
"You cannot completely separate technical and social issues." This is one of the fundamental underlying principles in Clay Shirkey's essay A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy. This essay looks understanding the balance of a group and the individuals that make it up and then outlines the requirements of producing software designed to support group interaction. » Read more
(Jul 24, 2003)
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Introduction To Naked Objects:
It is time to strip applications of complex UIs and give users direct access to business objects. The concept
is simple: write behaviorally complete business model objects and use generic views and controllers. » Read more
(Jul 15, 2003)
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First Community Meeting:
java.net is itself a java.net community. We are in
the process of organizing and figuring out how to best be a community. During
this year's JavaOne conference, java.net's first community meeting was held.
Here are the unedited notes of one of the Sun employees that helped steer this
project before launch. » Read more
(Jul 16, 2003)
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Javapedia: DrJava:
DrJava is an Integrated Development Environment originally designed to be an educational tool for beginning Java students. Developer Charles Reis has posted the Javapedia DrJava page outlining many of the often overlooked features of this IDE. Download the latest release of DrJava and join in the discussion.
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How to Deliver a Report without getting Lynched:
First there's the wrong way to begin a review: " I do not have time to do free reviews. Nonetheless, you did such a horrendously bad job that I am willing to make an exception in your case. I had expected, since you are just starting out, that you would make a few mistakes, but what you wrote is really terrible!" Then there are better ways. This classic Ask Tog demonstrates effective ways to deliver criticism. You may find yourself passing this link on to others at work.
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Integrating java.net
Better yet, put examples on a wiki and let the community evolve it, yet link to the wiki pages directly from the official documentation.... yes, I like it!
- Erik Hatcher
Worst Enemies
Very brief reaction to Clay Shirky's group talk
To chat/blog or not to chat/blog
This article from the New York Times talks about InstantMessaging and Blogging in lectures and classrooms - questioning the future of socially norms. As a community that is based in technology (and blogging) I wonder where our community draws the line:
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