I find that as presentation software - in the right hands, of course - Power Point and cronies aren't half bad. The main problem begins the moment that the presentation ends. The presentation is emailed across the board to all sorts of people, kept in the team Sharepoint server, etc. which is a fatal mistake, because a presentation is the exact antiparadigm for knowledge management.
As soon as you take away the talking head who explains what these bullets are, you're left with a shell of superficial concept points masquerading as information.
A smart presentation author will be aware of this and try to add notes and background to the barebones slides, but a document (or a wiki, or any of another million innovations) will be much more successful as a stand-in for the guy talking.
When I miss a technology conference, I'd rather get sent a data-sheet than click through a set of incomprehensible balloons and bullets, trying to piece together the finer points that I could have heard and then comprehended during the conference itself. (I can only assume that putting the data-sheet in the hands of the audience during the conference would greatly increase interactiveness and comprehension, but that's another story.)
It doesn't replace the concept of "libraries and APIs", but sometimes I end up with a silly text file full of customized how-to snippets. I'm talking about blocks of code or SQLs that do something useful and I write often enough to warrant a snippet library.
I imagine such a thing could be networked and served to a large audience, much like the searchable online regex library. But I can't think of any type of source control that has the capability to search and find snippets with ease (someone else posted how source control only deals with versioning).
What's negative of the image of the male hacker? It's more universal than anything, even Batman! What girl doesn't want to be like Batman??? He's so cool!
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I know a song called Entropy, and it's performed by a Canadian group called Moxy Früvous.
snip:
Why can't we make a clean machine that runs perpetually? 'Cause there's another law with which all energy must agree: Whenever it changes form it loses quality (In other words:) Damn that rising entropy!
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
So simple, so easy, so unstressful. Just load it up and let the Prince's fluid wallrunning soothe your tired eyes.
I find that as presentation software - in the right hands, of course - Power Point and cronies aren't half bad. The main problem begins the moment that the presentation ends. The presentation is emailed across the board to all sorts of people, kept in the team Sharepoint server, etc. which is a fatal mistake, because a presentation is the exact antiparadigm for knowledge management.
As soon as you take away the talking head who explains what these bullets are, you're left with a shell of superficial concept points masquerading as information.
A smart presentation author will be aware of this and try to add notes and background to the barebones slides, but a document (or a wiki, or any of another million innovations) will be much more successful as a stand-in for the guy talking.
When I miss a technology conference, I'd rather get sent a data-sheet than click through a set of incomprehensible balloons and bullets, trying to piece together the finer points that I could have heard and then comprehended during the conference itself. (I can only assume that putting the data-sheet in the hands of the audience during the conference would greatly increase interactiveness and comprehension, but that's another story.)
All I want to know is ... can I capture and transport my bounties in it????
It doesn't replace the concept of "libraries and APIs", but sometimes I end up with a silly text file full of customized how-to snippets. I'm talking about blocks of code or SQLs that do something useful and I write often enough to warrant a snippet library.
I imagine such a thing could be networked and served to a large audience, much like the searchable online regex library. But I can't think of any type of source control that has the capability to search and find snippets with ease (someone else posted how source control only deals with versioning).
http://rubyforge.org/snippet/ seems like a good place to emulate.
My two sense.
All it means is that it's time to make a new Proxomitron (http://www.proxomitron.info/) filter.
What's negative of the image of the male hacker? It's more universal than anything, even Batman! What girl doesn't want to be like Batman??? He's so cool!
I know a song called Entropy, and it's performed by a Canadian group called Moxy Früvous.
snip:
Why can't we make a clean machine that runs perpetually?
'Cause there's another law with which all energy must agree:
Whenever it changes form it loses quality
(In other words:) Damn that rising entropy!