14321880
submission
jonniee writes
"3M has rolled out a 22-inch digital display capable of 20-finger multi-touch input with less than 6 millisecond response time. The monitor incorporates 3M's 3M Projected Capacitive Technology based on mutual capacitance operation theory. The result produces a silky smooth response that has almost no lag in execution."Link to Original Source
8037564
submission
jonniee writes
"Looking back at 7 predictions about open source in 2009 (How did we do?) and looking forward to 7 more open source predictions for 2010"Link to Original Source
7906800
submission
jonniee writes
"Prof. Anthony J. Leggett of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids". Superfluids can, in theory, be used in topological quantum computing. Prof. Leggett takes time to talk with Jack Woehr about superfluids and quantum computing."Link to Original Source
7717474
submission
jonniee writes
"Ivar Jacobson, Bertrand Meyer, and Richard Soley have launched an initiative to re-establish software engineering as a rigorous discipline that's based on a solid theory, proven principles, and best practices — and the vehicle they've launched to make this a reality is SEMAT, short for "Software Engineering Method and Theory." And and among their signatories are some of the leaders in software development."Link to Original Source
6270829
submission
jonniee writes
"If you pick a software development project at random, the odds are good that its source code, bug reports, mailing list archives, and so on reside in a web-based portal. Whether it's a hosted service like SourceForge or an installed system like Trac, in many ways that portal is the project: individual developers might come and go, but the portal's contents live on, and with them, the project. To the author's knowledge, this is the first general study of web-based software project management tools."Link to Original Source
6213457
submission
jonniee writes
"Ivar Jacobson believes that our greatest challenge is understanding how to build great software — which, he says, is why we need a theory for software engineering."Link to Original Source
5652743
submission
jonniee writes
"Linode has built an impressive collection of web-based management dashboards to manage the VPS lifecycle end-to-end. It took Mike less than two minutes to configure and create a 64-bit version of Ubuntu v9.0.4 server, log into the running instance via Linode's remarkable AJAX-driven terminal application, generate an API key, and interrogate its status via the API Python shell.py script."Link to Original Source
5505927
submission
jonniee writes
"Jack Woehr talks with Anselm Garbe, the Primus inter pares of the radical simplicity mongers at suckless.org. In their chat about simplicity in software development, Anselm shares his list of principles of simplicity."Link to Original Source
5495373
submission
jonniee writes
"The Neuros LINK is essential a quiet x86 PC running Ubuntu Linux with an ATI graphics card delivering video via VGA, DVI, and HDMI output. What makes the LINK such a compelling platform for these folks and Linux/open source developers in general is the recognition that a real business entity is stepping forward to spend the money necessary to market and commercialize what tech enthusiasts have been doing for years."Link to Original Source
5477771
submission
jonniee writes
"Bertrand Meyer and Ivar Jacobson ask if it is time for software development methodology to undergo a transformation?"Link to Original Source
