Ok, ok, the title is hyperbole to draw your attention. I’m not quite ready yet to throw out Java, JavaScript, ActionScript and the other languages I write about on this blog. But what I can say, I’m charmed. My very first babysteps into the Python language have convinced me that it’s certainly worth pursuing.
The Humble Indie Bundle is the latest example of a growing trend: You’re free to set your own price. The Humble Indie Bundle contains 5 great indie games that would usually retail for about $80, but you get to choose your own price. Looking at the current statistics, the average is way below that price.
Until last weekend, I had been ignoring the latest gaming craze. Namely social strategy games, most known are the Facebook variants, Farmville and Mafia Wars. Since I try to stay up-to-date on what’s happening in the multimedia web world, it was about time I dove into the genre to figure it out. I picked We [...]
If you’re visiting the site, you will undoubtedly have noticed the new design. If you’re following the site via the feed or e-mail, now is a very good time to click through and check out the new incarnation of Streamhead. In this post, I go over what went in to creating the new design and [...]
One of the main aims of Kanban is to make the process more visible and therefor measurable. Kanban can be “bolted onto” many project methodologies and make them more visible from the outside. Part 1 introduces Kanban, which is a little too vague in my opinion. But part 2 is where it gets really interesting [...]
Herman Miller releases a new desk that fits your body like a glove. Just make sure you also buy the chair. Based on your bodies anatomy, Herman Miller has been producing chairs that support you in just the right places. One of the main selling points of this rather expensive chair, is that it also [...]
I first was introduced to the tragedy of the commons in Lawrence Lessig’s book “The Future of Ideas”. It deals with the problems that exist when one tries to apply “real life” economic models to digital content. Bits are virtually free, you pay a pittance per bit to your Internet provider. In return you get [...]
This post aggregates some general thoughts I’ve been having on the state of the Internet. I’ve been missing the authentic personal page. Are those gone, or have they simply become impossible to find? Remember Geocities, Fortunecity, where there other cities? It appears most of those free web hosts have either disappeared or have adopted a [...]
In today’s get-rich-quick world, you can’t open your browser without some one trying to sell you an e-book on getting filthy rich in just hours. In all honesty, I have to admit, I never did buy such a book, so I can’t be sure, but if it is too good to be true, it usually [...]
Any news site or blog needs at least some readers. If not, it wouldn’t be very interesting for the author. To improve your blog and increase your reader count, there’s one golden rule: Know your visitors. Know what makes them tick, what they like to read, to what they react. This post describes a few [...]