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Free Microsoft developer & designer tools for kids

Mark Zabriskie — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:00:56 +0000

Microsoft has an amazing offer for kids & students that want to make use of the latest developer and designer tools for free. Check out Microsoft DreamSpark on the Channel 8 site. What fun it would be to be a kid these days.

Amazon Kindle for Avid Book Readers

Mark Zabriskie — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:50:20 +0000

For as many books as I read, I have been quite keen on the idea of an electronic book reader that really works. It looks like amazon really got it all together with the Kindle, easy on the eyes, easy to use, and transparent wireless networking to download media. Take a look at Kindle:

Do you agree this is the best e-reading device ever?

Jeff Sutherland on the roots of Scrum

Mark Zabriskie — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:47:46 +0000

Jeff Sutherland has posted a 60 minute video from a presentation he gave in 2005 at JAOO. Jeff focuses on the Japanese connection to the origins of Scrum. It also makes it clear that I need to study the processes Borland was using with their development of Quattro. This presentation is very complimentary to the one that Ken Schwaber recently gave at Google. See the video at InfoQ: The Roots of Scrum

Ken Schwaber on Scrum (video)

Mark Zabriskie — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:47:46 +0000

Here’s an outstanding 1 hour video presentation by Ken Schwaber on Scrum. This was a tech talk at google. I found it very interesting to learn that the video game industry uses Scrum heavily.
Scrum et al. – Google Video

gadget freaks unite

Mark Zabriskie — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:13:23 +0000

CNET Tv

If you have a tivo, you’ve probably already enjoyed the CNET tech tips and reviews videos. Now you can also get these videos online.

Schneier on Security: USBDumper

Mark Zabriskie — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:19:43 +0000

Schneier on Security: USBDumper

Be careful not to insert USB drives into untrusted computers. You could end up unknowingly leaving a copy of everything on the drive behind on the PC.

Bill Gates’ Think Week

Mark Zabriskie — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:30:09 +0000

The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Microsoft’s “Thoreau” takes to woods to ponder future

Here’s a great idea from Bill Gates, take time to get away from it all for a few days and do nothing but read about a variety of topics. Who wouldn’t like quite time away in a secluded cottage to read and think?

See where the Internet lives

Mark Zabriskie — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:20:24 +0000

[video] See where the Internet lives | CNET News.com

Watch this fascinating look inside a giant data center with huge power consumption.

Build AJAX apps in the Java language

Mark Zabriskie — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:28:30 +0000

Google Web Toolkit – Build AJAX apps in the Java language

This is a fantastic innovation by the folks at google!

What Is a Wiki (and How to Use One for Your Projects)

Mark Zabriskie — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:31:47 +0000

O’Reilly Network — What Is a Wiki (and How to Use One for Your Projects)

Good wiki intro and some best practices…