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8 must-see TED talks for IT pros. If you've been around the Web awhile, you've probably heard of TED conferences. They're events organized by a small New York nonprofit called TED Conferences where audiences get to hear the ideas of illustrious thinkers and speakers from the worlds of technology, entertainment and design (thus the acronym TED). The talks given at these gatherings have a few distinctions: Many are by noted luminaries and professors, they last less than 20 minutes, and the subject matter is wide and varied, from feeding the world to finding aliens.
TED Talks videos show some of the most intriguing presentations from the many TED events -- the main TED conference held every spring in Long Beach, Calif., the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford, England, in July and an ongoing series of local gatherings around the world, collectively known as TEDx events. The TED site rolls out more videos all the time -- there are now more than 700 online. John Underkoffler on gesture-based computing Date: February 2010. Code4lib 2010 on internet archive"cod4l10_staging"
Aug. 25: Dublin Core. Joint NISO/DCMI Webinar August 25, 2010 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) About the Webinar Created in 1995, the Dublin Core was a result of the early phase of the web revolution. While most saw the Dublin Core as a simple metadata format, or as a set of descriptive headers embedded in web pages, a few of its founders saw it as a cornerstone of a fundamentally new approach to metadata. Agenda For background information about the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and how it has moved from the original Dublin Core metadata to the linked data world, read the article, "Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Beyond the Element Set," by Corey A. 1:00-1:05 p.m.: Welcome & System OverviewKaren Wetzel, Standards Program Manager, NISO 1:05-1:15 p.m.: IntroductionTodd Carpenter, Managing Director, NISO 1:15-2:15 p.m.: Presentations Dublin Core in the Early Web Revolution Makx Dekkers, Managing Director and CEO, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Ltd. 2:15-3:00 p.m.: Q&A and Wrap-up Presenter Biographies Registration.
(Node.js: JavaScript on the Server (via...) (Managing Software Debt - Chris Sterling @ SD West...) Managing Software Debt. How did the software get like this? It is almost certain the people who developed this application did not intend to create such a mess. The following article will explore the multitude of factors involved in the development of software with debt. What Contributes to Software Debt? Software debt accumulates when focus remains on immediate completion while neglecting changeability of the system over time.
The accumulation of debt does not impact software delivery immediately, and may even create a sense of increased feature delivery. Business responds well to the pace of delivered functionality and the illusion of earlier returns on investment. The following sources constitute what I call software debt: Software Debt Creeps In Software projects are complex. Figure 1.1: Focus on good design in first feature of release with little schedule pressure yet. As the release progress, schedule pressure starts to set in and there is an increasing focus on just getting features done. Slides to go with the video and article by Chis...)