Finally managed to take a break from the City, jumped on an easyjet and safely landed this side of the Alps.
Spent the first day with the family, and the second essentially sleeping and “decompressing” (which means that I’ve been in constant touch with London but not taking any commitment): I just can’t take a sudden [...]
Geoffrey Grosenbach published a dense post about his experience at FOWA. A very interesting read, focused on the wide concept of scalability of a technology: structural, client-side (perceived), social.
About the latter:
PHP had to intentionally think about the public image of the language. [...]
Where will this come from for Rails? The author of Rails is [...]
Last night I attended the second San Lorenzo dinner in London.
This time the focus was on cheese, of which we tasted a very impressive selection, paired with different types of honey and the usual generous quaff of piedmont wine (oh, Barbera, my love! :) but also Nebbiolo, Gavi to end with a sweet Moscato).
So that [...]
from SmartMobs:
Part of the unease arises from the growing realisation that the legal foundation of privacy law is being rendered increasingly irrelevant.
Ok, I’m not alone. And yes, mine was the “roughandnotpoliticallyscorrect” version.
Thick subject… I mean androids, AI, singularity and the rest…
I’m still looking for the thread to weave a coherent argument here, but since there’s going to be a singularity centric drink in Milan this week, I thought it was worth just collecting here a sequence of a few visual suggestions that are inspiring me these [...]
After a fairly sociable week, spent peeking from the outside at the FOWA, playing the two-point-oh at blognation’s party, stealing pizza at google open source jam and supporting the latest shiny green headshift rigfeat (well done, Tom!), I spent the last couple of days letting myself being cuddled by Victorian aestethics and traditional british flavours [...]
Good old Babele posted a video (in Italian) of the iAble, the office suite totally controlled through eye tracking developed at SRLabs (the last Italian company I worked with before moving to the UK).