EvolvingWorld

We did it! It’s always a great feeling to launch a new product.  The new Art in Action online program has been a very interesting project, not only allowing me to try out different technologies like Symfony, but for the interesting management challenges the project has posed. In particular, using our team of high school interns [...]

The other days I heard an interesting lecture at Xerox Parc by Dr. John Hsu of GM’s Advanced Programs office in Palo Alto on GM’s ideas about electric cars. He presented quite a bit of interesting material, a lot of which I hadn’t heard presented before in this form. First of all he distinguished between different [...]

One of the strengths of the symfony application framework are all the useful plugins you can get to extend it. I’ve used quite a few on the Art in Action project.
However, as I observe the symfony web site from day to day I notice an interesting phenomenon. Developers love creating plugins. Almost every [...]

I’ve found that for doing web development of any kind an absolutely indispensable tool is CSE HTML Validator Pro. This is an amazingly versatile tool. Basically, you take the source for your web pages, run it through the tool, and it tells you what’s wrong in immense detail.  It does this page by page, or in [...]

Nowadays in the interest of cutting costs, nothing is built to last longer than it has to. Whether it’s modern appliances that don’t last nearly as long as the models of a generation ago, or AirBus airliners which are fit for the scrap heap the day after the warranty runs out, everything is meant [...]

Every thursday Xerox Parc has these great lectures on scientific topics. Today Rich Green from Rich Green, Ink spoke on current developments in home energy technology. Rich is a long time custom audio/video installer, and big honcho in Cedia, the professional installers’ association. The installers have branched out over time from just setting up stereos into [...]