Posts Tagged ‘history’

Review: Dreaming in Code

In General, Reviews on 31 March 2008 tagged books, code, coding, computing, design, history, innovation, programming, project-management, software

I recently finished Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg. It covers the development of Chandler, an open source, cross-platform personal information manager (PIM). A project of the Open Source Applications Foundation and led by Mitch Kapor, Chandler was meant to revolutionize desktop [...]

More from the memory vaults

In General on 24 October 2007 tagged digital, history, memory, Music, personal, radio, TV

Upon re-reading my previous post, I realized that each ‘chapter’ could have a (tongue-in-cheek) title and bit of explanation: The ‘American Top 40′ years: Most of my exposure to new music was either from listening to popular radio, my older sister or a classmate or the occasional middle school dance. The ‘Radical Romper Room’ years: [...]

From the memory vaults

In General on 24 October 2007 tagged digital, history, memory, Music, personal

Every so often I find some time to dig through my digital music library. A while back, I deleted my iTunes library (alas, bloated and slow; come on Apple!) — but not the music source files — and have been sorting through (e.g. must-listen, save-for-someday, mashups, one-hit-wonders, exotic/strange/novelty, vintage), weeding out (no tags = delete!) [...]