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Triumph of the Cyborg Composer | Miller-McCune Online
UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor David Cope is ready to introduce computer software that creates original, modern music.
I have to admit that I haven't been all that familiar with Minecraft, the video game, though I keep hearing about it. We did recently write about how the game's developer, Markus Persson, has taken a very user friendly view towards "piracy," arguing that it's better to give people a reason to buy than worry about the people who will never buy.
Guy Building A Working (Yes, Working) Computer Inside A Video Game
by Joel Spolsky
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
The Java Tutorials are practical guides for programmers who want to use the Java programming language to create applications. They include hundreds of complete, working examples, and dozens of lessons.
The Java™ Tutorials
Rick Barraza
Why typical personas and journey maps are simplistic, flat, and unreliable By Kes Sampanthar , Director of Media Strategy, Cynergy Customer journey maps, the latest fad in design circles, have many of the same flaws as the last approach to understanding people—the trusted user personas. Alan Cooper invented the concept of ‘personas’ in his early software development days and made it famous in his book The Inmates Are Running the Asylum. The idea of developing a fully fleshed-out description of a typical user was a great stride forward from the stick men that represented people in UML diagrams, but today we know that isn’t enough.