Robert Thurnher suppt (without imported items) http://soup.robert42.com/ Robert Thurnher suppt (without imported items) http://soup.robert42.com/ http://asset.soup.io/asset/0005/0284_02af.jpeg 128 128 Various tumbles, thoughts, experiences &amp;amp; some more. New home Public key Robi's Ringolog <p><a href="http://log.robert42.com/">http://log.robert42.com/</a></p>Mon, 10 May 2010 22:47:44 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/55994423/Robis-Ringologurn:www-soup-io:1:55994423link "Tone makes all the difference in the world." <p>"Tone makes all the difference in the world."</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2293-on-writing-accentuate-the-positive">On Writing: Accentuate the positive - (37signals)</a></p>Thu, 06 May 2010 15:36:37 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/55436752/Tone-makes-all-the-difference-in-theurn:www-soup-io:1:55436752quote "The PC revolution is almost coming to an end, and everyone's trying to work o..." <p>"<div class="asset-content entry-content"><div class="asset-more"><p>The PC revolution is almost coming to an end, and everyone's trying to work out a strategy for surviving the aftermath.</p> </div> </div> <div class="asset-footer"> <div class="asset-meta"> &lt;!-- &lt;div class="user-pic"> &lt;a href="<a href="http://www.antipope.org/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;amp;blog_id=1&amp;amp;id=2&quot;&gt;&lt;img">http://www.antipope.org/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&amp;amp;amp;blog_id=1&amp;amp;amp;id=2&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;img</a> src="<a href="http://www.antipope.org/mt/mt-static/support/assets_c/userpics/userpic-2-100x100.png">http://www.antipope.org/mt/mt-static/support/assets_c/userpics/userpic-2-100x100.png</a>" width="36" height="36" alt="user-pic" />&lt;/a> &lt;/div> --> </div></div>"</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/why-steve-jobs-hates-flash.html">The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash - Charlie's Diary</a></p>Mon, 03 May 2010 13:56:33 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/54902561/The-PC-revolution-is-almost-coming-tourn:www-soup-io:1:54902561quote About the Freebase Graph API <p>"So what does it take for Freebase to support the <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api"> Facebook Open Graph API</a>?"</p> <p><a href="http://graph.freebase.com/about">http://graph.freebase.com/about</a></p>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:47:26 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/54657715/About-the-Freebase-Graph-APIurn:www-soup-io:1:54657715link "New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobi..." <p>"New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind."</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/">Thoughts on Flash</a> -- Steve Jobs</p>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:30:12 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/54477696/New-open-standards-created-in-the-mobileurn:www-soup-io:1:54477696quote "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which ..." <p>"<dt>Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.</dt>"</p><p>&ndash;Alfred North Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (1911)</p><p>[Reposted from <span class="user_container user2797" ><a class="" href="http://ppp.soup.io/post/54431576/Civilization-advances-by-extending-the-number-of"><span class="name">ppp</span></a></span>]</p>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:31:28 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/54439045/Civilization-advances-by-extending-the-number-ofurn:www-soup-io:1:54439045quote RhinoJS? <p><a href="http://ringojs.com/bot/rhinojs">http://ringojs.com/bot/rhinojs</a></p>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:22:22 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/54190921/RhinoJSurn:www-soup-io:1:54190921link NoSQL at Twitter (NoSQL EU 2010) <p>Slides of Kevin Weil's talk.</p> <p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/kevinweil/nosql-at-twitter-nosql-eu-2010">http://www.slideshare.net/kevinweil/nosql-at-twitter-nosql-eu-2010</a></p>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:23:50 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/54104287/NoSQL-at-Twitter-NoSQL-EU-2010urn:www-soup-io:1:54104287link ""Object oriented" will no longer be synonymous with "good"." <p>""Object oriented" will no longer be synonymous with "good"."</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://www.michaelnygard.com/blog/2010/04/the_future_of_software_develop.html">Wide Awake Developers: The Future of Software Development</a></p>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:20:28 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/54104106/Object-oriented-will-no-longer-be-synonymousurn:www-soup-io:1:54104106quote RailsConf 09: Bob Martin, "What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby, Too" <object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YX3iRjKj7C0" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YX3iRjKj7C0" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" width="425" /></object>RailsConf 09: Bob Martin, "What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby, Too"Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:24:32 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/52494904/RailsConf-09-Bob-Martin-What-Killed-Smalltalkurn:www-soup-io:1:52494904video "How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere e..." <p>"<b><i>How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.</i></b>"</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller">Bucky</a></p>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:42:52 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/52277550/How-often-I-found-where-I-shouldurn:www-soup-io:1:52277550quote "No organization can remain successful without an institutional ..." <p>"<p>No organization can remain successful without an institutional memory and an infrastructure to recruit and develop new talent. Increasing collaboration with academics interested in software development might be productive for both parties. Collaborative research and an emphasis on lifelong learning that goes beyond mere training courses could play major roles in this.</p> &lt;!-- END BODY-5 -->"</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/1/55760-what-should-we-teach-new-software-developers-why/fulltext">What Should We Teach New Software Developers? Why? | January 2010 | Communications of the ACM</a> -- Bjarne Stroustrup</p>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:52:53 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/52072341/No-organization-can-remain-successful-without-anurn:www-soup-io:1:52072341quote (Image) <p><a href="http://twitter.com/w3c/status/2027402192"><img alt="0269_f057_400" height="379" src="http://asset.soup.io/asset/0748/0269_f057_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p><p>&lt;sarcasm&gt; </p></p><p>[Reposted from <span class="user_container user63883" ><a class="" href="http://sawb.soup.io/post/50001916/Image"><span class="name">sawb</span></a></span> via <span class="user_container user35632" ><a class="" href="http://www.heisse-luft.at/post/50153876/Image"><span class="name">andreasklinger</span></a></span>]</p>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:22:41 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/51902329/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:51902329image (Image) <p><a href="http://kill.devc.at/node/321"><img alt="6638_9b55_400" height="326" src="http://asset.soup.io/asset/0763/6638_9b55_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:40:53 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/51489441/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:51489441image (Image) <p><a href="http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2010/03/simply-explained-entropy.html"><img alt="0368_84eb_400" height="566" src="http://asset.soup.io/asset/0740/0368_84eb_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:01:46 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/49244765/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:49244765image Server-Side Javascript since... way back: RingoJS! <p><a href="http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Server-Side-Javascript-since...-way-back%3A-RingoJS%21/">http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Server-Side-Javascript-since...-way-back%3A-RingoJS%21/</a></p>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:15:11 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/49136529/Server-Side-Javascript-since-way-back-RingoJSurn:www-soup-io:1:49136529link Apr 15, 2010: The Need for a Re-Definition of Web Engineering Based on Web Science 2010-04-15T11:00:00+0000 2010-04-15T13:00:00+0000 The Need for a Re-Definition of Web Engineering Based on Web Science Talk by: http://bebowhite.com/ TU Wien, Zemanek-Hörsaal, Favoritenstr. 9 <p>11:00&ndash;13:00 @ TU Wien, Zemanek-Hörsaal, Favoritenstr. 9</p><p>Talk by: http://bebowhite.com/ </p>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:35:00 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/49119105/Apr-15-2010-The-Need-for-aurn:www-soup-io:1:49119105event "Joy is underrated as a metric for a language’s potential success in a develo..." <p>"Joy is underrated as a metric for a language’s potential success in a development organization."</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://thegeektalk.com/interviews/alex-payne/">Alex Payne | The Geek Talk</a></p>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:50:43 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/48740468/Joy-is-underrated-as-a-metric-forurn:www-soup-io:1:48740468quote A special report on managing information: Data, data everywhere | The Economist <p>"Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits, says Kenneth Cukier (interviewed <a href="http://audiovideo.economist.com/?fr_story=02825e89bf14288f555332a86b019387dcbd4afa&amp;rf=bm" title=" (opens in a new window) ">here</a>)—but also big headaches"</p> <p><a href="http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15557443">http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15557443</a></p>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:47:35 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/48649339/A-special-report-on-managing-information-Dataurn:www-soup-io:1:48649339link "Programmers won't have to think about storage, period. Right now there's a lo..." <p>"Programmers won't have to think about storage, period. Right now there's a lot of time spent on issues that should be automated, and this is one of them."</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=284730">Programming in the Mid-Future</a> -- Bruce Eckel</p>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:23:00 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/48646506/Programmers-wont-have-to-think-about-storageurn:www-soup-io:1:48646506quote Release 0.4 - RingoJS <p><a href="http://ringojs.org/wiki/release%200.4/">http://ringojs.org/wiki/release%200.4/</a></p>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:14:59 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/48028239/Release-0-4-RingoJSurn:www-soup-io:1:48028239link "Yes, after 20+ years, the rest of the programming world finally caught up to ..." <p>"Yes, after 20+ years, the rest of the programming world finally caught up to one of perl’s fundamental insights."</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/post-functional-scala/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+em-robert-all+(Robert+Fischer:+Unfiltered)">Scala: Post-Functional, Post-Modern, or Just Perl++?</a></p>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:59:52 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/47648340/Yes-after-20-years-the-rest-ofurn:www-soup-io:1:47648340quote CRE146 JavaScript - Chaosradio Podcast Network <p>"Geschichte, Struktur, Eigenschaften und die Zukunft der wichtigsten Programmiersprache des Webs"</p> <p><a href="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre146.html">http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre146.html</a></p>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:18:28 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/46623166/CRE146-JavaScript-Chaosradio-Podcast-Networkurn:www-soup-io:1:46623166link Announcement | IE6 Funeral <p><a href="http://ie6funeral.com/">http://ie6funeral.com/</a></p>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:13:15 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/46279095/Announcement-IE6-Funeralurn:www-soup-io:1:46279095link "Für Karl-Heinz Grasser gilt die Unschuldsvermutung. Für Alfons Mensdorff-Poui..." <p>"Für Karl-Heinz Grasser gilt die Unschuldsvermutung.<br class="avtext" /> Für Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly gilt die Unschuldsvermutung.<br class="avtext" /> Für Uwe Scheuch gilt die Unschuldsvermutung.<br class="avtext" /> Für Josef Dörfler gilt die Unschuldsvermutung.<br class="avtext" /> Für Walter Maischberger gilt die Unschuldsvermutung.<br class="avtext" /> Für Asylsuchende gilt die Unschuldsvermutung nicht. Sie werden sicherheitshalber zuerst einmal interniert."</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://www.dieangewandte.at/jart/prj3/angewandte/main.jart?rel=de&amp;content-id=1229508255639&amp;aktuelles_id=1265898320550&amp;reserve-mode=active">Gerald Bast: Österreichische Unschulds-Litanei</a></p><p>[Reposted from <span class="user_container user7" ><a class="" href="http://soup.c3o.org/post/45886866/F-r-Karl-Heinz-Grasser-gilt-die"><span class="name">c3o</span></a></span>]</p>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:53:05 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/46005695/F-r-Karl-Heinz-Grasser-gilt-dieurn:www-soup-io:1:46005695quote "You might say don't worry, her generation won't be here much longer, but that..." <p>"You might say don't worry, her generation won't be here much longer, but that's my mom you're talking about. And further, how much effort are <i>we</i> wasting pushing around all these unnecessary concepts? Too much."</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2010/02/20/whatWeDontUnderstand.html">What we don't understand. (Scripting News)</a></p>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:51:25 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/45829327/You-might-say-dont-worry-her-generationurn:www-soup-io:1:45829327quote Soziale Netzwerke: Die Schelmexperten des sozialen Internets - Hintergründe - Feuilleton - FAZ.NET <p>Wie wahr (wenngleich natürlich auch überspitzt dargestellt).</p> <p><a href="http://www.faz.net/s/Rub117C535CDF414415BB243B181B8B60AE/Doc~E9E6A6552410C476C8BD314DA9346FFE6~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html">http://www.faz.net/s/Rub117C535CDF414415BB243B181B8B60AE/Doc~E9E6A6552410C476C8BD314DA9346FFE6~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html</a></p>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:52:38 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/45372805/Soziale-Netzwerke-Die-Schelmexperten-des-sozialen-Internetsurn:www-soup-io:1:45372805link "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." <p>"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."</p><p>&ndash;Albert Einstein</p>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:14:24 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/45278795/Its-not-that-Im-so-smart-itsurn:www-soup-io:1:45278795quote Back in the (Goat) Saddle - David Pollak's Blog <p><a href="http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/98-Back-in-the-Goat-Saddle.html">http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/98-Back-in-the-Goat-Saddle.html</a></p>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:26:37 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/45196688/Back-in-the-Goat-Saddle-David-Pollaksurn:www-soup-io:1:45196688link "Wenn man so will, ist Buzz, das Produkt, eine suboptimale Demoversion für Buz..." <p>"Wenn man so will, ist Buzz, das Produkt, eine suboptimale Demoversion für Buzz, die Plattform, und anders als etwa bei Google Wave kann man davon ausgehen, dass es auf Basis der Plattform relativ zeitnah diverseste Services und Integrationen geben wird."</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://hackr.de/2010/02/11/pubsubhubbuzz">live.hackr : PubSubHubbuzz</a></p>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:04:08 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/44988101/Wenn-man-so-will-ist-Buzz-dasurn:www-soup-io:1:44988101quote "What's the right approach to new products? Pick three key attributes or featu..." <p>"What's the right approach to new products? <b>Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else</b>."</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-your-product-is-great-it-doesnt-need.html">Paul Buchheit: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good.</a></p>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:06:35 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/44937740/Whats-the-right-approach-to-new-productsurn:www-soup-io:1:44937740quote (Image) <p><a href=""><img alt="6890_e4fe_400" height="561" src="http://asset.soup.io/asset/0678/6890_e4fe_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p></p><p>[Reposted from <span class="user_container user122719" ><a class="" href="http://peterpur.soup.io/post/44807262/Image"><span class="name">peterpur</span></a></span>]</p>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:03:19 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/44876973/Imageurn:www-soup-io:1:44876973image Rich Hickey: Are We There Yet? <p>Highly recommended. Brilliant.</p> <p><a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey">http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey</a></p>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:58:00 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/44291195/Rich-Hickey-Are-We-There-Yeturn:www-soup-io:1:44291195link FB on Rails <div>A Facebook-like prototype app built w/ RoR can be found <a href="https://dav.robert42.com/uni/swa/swa.zip">here</a> now. </div><div>Beware, it's a prototype; a.k.a. sketchy, dirty &amp; buggy. ;) </div><div><br /></div><div>Some tinkering w/ auto-generating app code skeletons via <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/">EMF</a>'s incl. as well. </div><div><br /></div><div>Guerrilla duo effort of a workload actually meant for groups of up to 5 devs. ^^</div><div><br /></div><div>(connected <a href="http://tuwis.tuwien.ac.at/lva/184159">course</a>)</div>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:48:15 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/44232479/FB-on-Railsurn:www-soup-io:1:44232479regularstudies LOL, so familiar. <p><a href="http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2010/02/this-time.html"><img alt="9890_335c_400" height="566" src="http://asset.soup.io/asset/0669/9890_335c_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p>LOL, so familiar.</p>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:05:06 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/44213862/LOL-so-familiarurn:www-soup-io:1:44213862image "The problem for Flash is just like the problem for IE — the web has already m..." <p>"The problem for Flash is just like the problem for IE — the web has already moved on."</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://daringfireball.net/2010/02/winer_flash_open_standards">Daring Fireball: What if Flash Were an Open Standard?</a></p>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:42:53 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/44099245/The-problem-for-Flash-is-just-likeurn:www-soup-io:1:44099245quote Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: Where Life Takes Me Next... <p>R.I.P. Sun Microsystems.</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/where_life_takes_me_next">http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/where_life_takes_me_next</a></p>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:43:15 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/44004571/Jonathan-Schwartzs-Blog-Where-Life-Takes-Meurn:www-soup-io:1:44004571link "So just take the iPad for what it is, one more platform among dozens of inter..." <p>"So just take the iPad for what it is, one more platform among dozens of interesting ones, and stop whining. And start tinkering."</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://pwpwp.blogspot.com/2010/01/tinkerers-sunrise.html">plans within plans within plans: Tinkerer's High Noon</a></p>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:55:17 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/43721439/So-just-take-the-iPad-for-whaturn:www-soup-io:1:43721439quote CommonJS: the First Year <p><a href="http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2010/01/29/commonjs-the-first-year/">http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2010/01/29/commonjs-the-first-year/</a></p>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:38:00 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/43643458/CommonJS-the-First-Yearurn:www-soup-io:1:43643458link "But you don’t become a hacker by programming; you become a hacker by tinkerin..." <p>"But you don’t become a hacker by programming; you become a hacker by <em>tinkering</em>. It’s the tinkering that provides that sense of wonder."</p><p>&ndash;<a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2010/01/29/tinkerers-sunset">Tinkerer’s Sunset [dive into mark]</a></p>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:11:28 GMThttp://soup.robert42.com/post/43640150/But-you-don-t-become-a-hackerurn:www-soup-io:1:43640150quote