iRobot

Reading an article on CNet about Honda's new Asimo robot. I'm amazed by how far humanoid-like robots have progressed.

Honda seem to be putting a lot in R&D into this and producing some cutting edge technology. With Moores law still progressing, it will be interesting to see what the future holds.

Here is some video footage with Asimo in action.

Although not similar to the book, the film iRobot is still entertaining.

Presentation Zen

Comparison of the presentation styles of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates with regard to Zen aestetics.

Startups

Interesting article called "Ten Rules for Web Startups" which gives advice on how startups should proceed.

Found an article called from Marshal Brain - How to Make a Million Dollars. It talks about the obvious but says that inactivity is the surest way to not succeed.

John Osher a serial entrepreneur gives advice on What Not to Do.

Hibernate Second Level Caching

Found an article on Java Boutique about using second level caching (such as EHCache) with hibernate.

History of the GUI

Interesting history of the GUI at Arstechnical

PBS Interviews

Found NerdTV on the PBS website. They have a whole load of technologist of old.

Out to the Wild West

Well I've finally done what I've talked about for the last few years. I've moved from NYC to the Bay Area, California.

I'm looking to work in a small company. A little less bureaucracy, a little more lets-change-the-world-attitude.

Let me know if you hear of anything.

Steve Jobs on Time

Looks like Steve is on the cover of Time Magazine (Last time was July 26, 2004) again.

Heres the actual article.

Power Bricks

Simple solution to all the gadgets that have those power bricks:

CSS Techniques

Pete Freitag posts some handy css tips.

Ruby and J2EE

I've noticed a significant increase in the interest in Ruby-on-Rails on the web.

Thankfully, IBM DeveloperWorks gives a brief overview between Rails and J2EE.

Javacast RIP

I spoke to soon about Javacast. Looks like because of priorities its DEAD jim!

Javacast

I've started to quite enjoy the java related podcast called Javacast.
There are focused on developers and they interview interesting people.

This week is was Bruce Tate. He is an author of numerous books including the one I'm currently reading, Bitter EJB.

All Talk

Google are using the jabber protocol, but the've missed the whole point of jabber, which is that it's an open standard. Its server independant.

This means that any server running jabber should be able to talk to any other server. At the moment GoogleTalk is a closed system like AIM, Yahoo or MSN. You need a gmail account to talk. I guess this is there way to make money.

I think will stick with iChat which uses AIM or (*any*) jabber server and Skype. Two closed systems is enough for me. I'm too lazy to sign up each time.

The other rumour is that Apple will release an iTunes phone next Friday. With the iPod saturating the market soo much, I can't see why someone would also get a iTunes phone if they have an iPod. Hmm.

MyEclipse 4.0 released. Here are the new features.

Google Talk

The rumour on the net is that Google will introduce a GoogleTalk tomorrow.
This will be a Jabber IM and allegedly VoIP.

DownloadSquad already (!) has a review, with tuaw.com showing instructions on how to set it up with iChat and your gmail account.

I got it set up no problem... sweet.

Eclipse slow on MacOSX Tiger.

You might not be aware but there is a problem running Eclipse on Tiger (10.4) which for me has made eclipse unusable. It looks like the fine people at Apple have got it sorted in v10.4.3 Build 8F8 (see comment #90).

Fingers crossed it will be coming out soon.

a9 maps

a9 (an amazon.com company) releases a9.com maps. Apparently they use trucks with digital cameras and GPS taking pictures of streets.

Quite slick..

Stanford Entrepreneurship Resource

Stanford Uni has put up some free entrepreneurship teaching resources, which are well worth reading, imho.

They have Larry Page and Eric Schmidt on video talking about google and Guy Kawasaki talking about how to start a company.

I've been a fan of Guy since the early days when he was at Apple and its interesting to watch him speak about a lot of the mistakes entrepreneurs make in the beginning. Being one of the founders for the VC company garage.com means he's probably dealt with a lot of startups and see's how they can go wrong.

Mighty Mouse

Apple now has a 2 button mouse !
Its interesting to see the difference between the original mac mouse and what we have today.

This is off course the real Mighty Mouse. :)

Mochikit

MochiKit is a useful javascript library that even has documentation!