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Where to Begin?
But in the night of thick darkness enveloping the earliest antiquity, so remote from ourselves, there shines the eternal and never failing light of a truth beyond all question: that the world of civil...
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Giulio Camillo, father of the Personal Computer
I am not the first to suggest it, but I will add my voice to those that want to claim that Giulio Camillo built the precursor of the modern personal computer in the 16th century. Claiming that anyone...
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Metaphors and Software Development
"But the greatest thing by far is to have a mastery of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances." --...
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Technological Similes (e.g., Ajax is like...)
As mentioned in a previous post, programmers typically explain one technology by referencing another more familiar technology. What sometimes happens, however, is that the technology that was thought...
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Concerning Facts
In the early chapters of A Study In Scarlet, John H. Watson observes of his friend Sherlock Holmes:His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics...
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Technological Similes (e.g., Silverlight is like . . .)
A few years ago I posted a list of technological similes on this blog involving the term “Ajax” which I aggregated from a Google Search. You can read about it here.It occurred to me that a similar...
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