Learning something new every day.
TechCrunch – Creator Of Lisp, John McCarthy, Dead At 84
Reminded of what I wrote not even two weeks ago after Dennis Ritchie died, of how the innovators of Computer Science were mostly still alive and it became a little less true.
Marco.org – What’s Next for Apple
Too true.
My Dinner With Android – Four months with Android: reflections, grievances and some tenuous metaphors bundled up into a weighty tome
That pretty much sums up every bit of experience of Android I’ve ever heard.
Tim Bray – Dennis Ritchie
One of the giants of Computer Science dies.
Seldo.Com Blog – PHP needs to die. What will replace it?
I use PHP for my day job every day and will probably still be using it years from now, but there are times I wish the language itself was more modern.
NYTimes.com – Bank of America Explains Web Site Problems
Bank of America, we weren’t hacked instead we are just incompetent.
Apple – Remembering Steve Jobs
An amazing person who built some amazing companies.
Eric’s Archived Thoughts – Searching For Mark Pilgrim
It would be quite depressing not to have those resources available, Dive Into HTML5 was "the" online resource for HTML5.
Ars Technica – iPhone 4s out October 14, beefier specs, same body
Nice bump to an awesome phone.
Ars Technica – Report: iTunes beta suggests app rentals may be in iOS’s future
A rental system would be nice, I hate buying apps that I try out and then get rid of.
Got any book recommendations?