http://dimsumthinking.com Crafting Stories for Modern Day Fires Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:06:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’ve written well over a hundred technology articles for a dozen sites. I contribute regularly to the ADC Website including articles on Mathematica Supports 64-bit Addressing and Optimizing Your Applications with Shark 4. I also wrote a monthly column on Core Java Technology Tech Tips. Other ... http://dimsumthinking.com/2007/04/11/technology-articles/ I love covering conferences. It’s what brought me to the world of online writing in the first place. I met some of my closest friends while covering the early JavaOne Conferences with a team from JavaWorld Magazine. More recently I have covered Macworld 2007: 1984 All Over Again, The ... http://dimsumthinking.com/2007/04/11/conference-coverage-articles/ Extreme Programming made sense to me from the moment I saw it. The practices resonated with me. I didn’t know if they made sense for professional programmers, but they certainly made sense in the classroom as a way of learning to program. Publisher Alan Apt thought so too and ... http://dimsumthinking.com/2007/04/11/extreme-software-engineering/ When I first saw Steve Jobs demonstrate Zero Conf on stage during his WWDC keynote I was a believer. I think Stuart Cheshire has invented a great piece of technology and made sure that it remained what it was meant to be. I was honored to co-author the ... http://dimsumthinking.com/2007/04/11/zero-configuration-networking/ I am often hired to provide my voice for podcast and broadcast programs. I voice the intro for Derrick Story’s Inside Aperture podcast (you can hear a sample in the Joe Schorr program) and the audio and video series of Web 2.0 presentations produced by Good Company Productions (as an ... http://dimsumthinking.com/2007/04/11/voice-work/ Conference organizers can extend the reach and impact of their events with audio. I have recently produced audio interviews from Eclipse Con (including conversations with Robert Lefkowitz and an engineer from NASA’s JPL) and the No Fluff Just Stuff tour (including Neal Ford on Domain Specific Languages and Jay Zimmerman ... http://dimsumthinking.com/2007/04/11/conference-coverage/ Photographer James Duncan Davidson and I teamed up to produce a series of nine developer profiles for the Apple Developer Connection. Duncan provided both the pictures and the page design for the ADC Developer Pavilion feature which included interviews with Robin Frost, Eddy Martinez, and Will Thimbleby. http://dimsumthinking.com/2007/04/11/custom-content/ Our weekly podcast Distributing the Future looked at the people and ideas behind emerging technology and how we use it. The theme derived from William Gibson’s quote that “the future is here it just isn’t evenly distributed yet.” The program was produced for a little over a year for O’Reilly ... http://dimsumthinking.com/2007/04/11/original-programming/ I have had a wonderful string of editing positions for Java websites. I was the founding editor for java.net which is now in Chris Adamson’s capable hands. I also edited O’Reilly’s ONJava.com and the IBM developerWorks site the Java Zone. http://dimsumthinking.com/2007/04/11/online-editing/ Brian Marick set out to write a book that was targeted at testers. Maybe he has. We pushed him to retitle his book to Everyday Scripting with Ruby because reviewers kept telling us it was a great way to learn Ruby and a collection of great techniques for scripters ... http://dimsumthinking.com/2007/04/11/everyday-scripting-with-ruby-for-teams-testers-and-you/