A nice way to keep up with what’s happening in the developerWorks Developer Centers, which are a rapidly growing set of developer-run microsites that I oversee at IBM, is to put all their headlines in one place, as I have on this Devcenter headlines page. I’ve used RSS, which I still think is underrated and […]
We use the term “developer” way too much. The word makes some people build things, but makes many, many more people not build things. At work, especially, the word discourages tinkering, learning, diving in. “I’m not a developer” is what you get a lot. Or: “That guy’s not a developer”. “We’ll need to hire the […]
Just launched a website for a buddy of mine, Joel Bourne, whose End of Plenty is hitting the stores now. End of Plenty is a book about food shortages and world populations, agronomy, climate, industry. Solutions. Joel’s a writer for National Geographic (and many other magazines) and the smartest guy I know about the environment, […]