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Visualizing Technical Debt
Mark Hissink Muller's Complexity Map creates a tree map that helps Java and J2EE/JEE developers keep unintended complexity to a minimum--effectively monitoring what Ward Cunningham described as "technical debt." The visualization allows ...
The Trailing Edge
The Computer History Simulation Project offers a collaborative forum for people interested in the evolution of computer hardware and software. The group seeks to create freeware simulations of historic hardware ...
Rights Software
The Martus software package gives human rights organizations a secure tool for managing information, particularly data related to the identity of victims or witnesses of abuses. The software allows reformers to ...
Science and the “Protected Commons”
Australian non-profit CAMBIA promotes research and technological collaboration in the life sciences as a means of nurturing innovation and making current research more widely available to developing communities. The group's
Reconstructing Perspective
An experimental program at Antietam National Battlefield used contemporary sketches and photos, as well as modern remote sensing technology and design software, to study elements of the site. According to ...
The Recycled Canvas Theme is now available! (v0.9)
If you are interested in becoming an experimenter, just download the theme+plugin and go ahead and get in touch with us. We'll give you access to our code repository and bug tracking ...
[mashups] Lots of coal, but the engine is full.
Read/WriteWeb points out that mapping continues to be the dominate API used for mashups, and wonders if mashups have lost their luster: There are few surprises in this information. Google Maps is ...
Barcamp Boston
Barcamp Boston is this weekend (all day saturday and until 5:30 on sunday). I'll try to stop by for some of the time - it is conveniently adjacent. The only competition is ...
Be kind to the web, please recycle your research.
As we near the target deadline for releasing our prototype recycled research project, it makes sense to talk a little bit about what we mean. Here is an overview of the project, ...
Sugar and spice for the $100 laptop
I was reading this article from Business Week (.com) about the face of the $100 laptop. I've been spending a lot of face time with the laptop lately, as part of ...
Textmate can do anything
Oh textmate, is there anything you can't do? I often use text editors to pre-write anything (posts, emails) because of some paranoid anti-web streak that i have. As I was writing ...