"2.800 Kameras überwachen Wiener Gemeindebauten" – http://t.co/bapEFXp

See how my avatar has been improved: lockerz.com/s/136460035

"I don't need inspiration. I need deadlines." Stefan Sagmeister http://t.co/9TNmy9p #design

DAS ist übrigens genau die Art von IT-Berichterstattung, von der ich immer rede: story first http://t.co/m87yVun.

Straight out of Burning Man 2011, it's Duane Flatmo's El Pulpo Mechanico. It's an octopus. It's a steampunk tank. It's a video game boss. It's an avatar of flaming doom. It's a one-metal-cephalopod parade.

That's the story of my professional career. Trying to learn things fast enough to create programs to solve problems that go away by themselves or weren't worth spending time on in the first place. Sisyphus had more job satisfaction.

Potential security exposure with IBM HTTP Server 8.0 and earlier (PM46234) (CVE-2011-3192)

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Terence Parr discusses using automation tools including DSLs to automate the software creation process as much as possible in order to increase output, effectiveness, correctness and velocity.

The keyboard is still our main interface to the computer and for many reasons we accept the challenge completely unprepared because we just don't bother to learn the mechanical skill of touch typing. Just think how much more productive you could be if you could simply think your thoughts or your code onto the keyboard as fast as you could think them.

Touch typing is clearly a skill to be valued.

Or is it?

There is a change in the way we interact with computers and it is mostly due to the use of touch screens. You simply cannot touch type on a mobile phone's virtual keyboard. When presented with such a thing your only option is to use one or at most two fingers. Given the way that the unit is held you also can't use the full keyboard style for a two finger peck. It seems that the best you can do is use two thumbs. This is perhaps the biggest change to typing since the introduction of touch typing.