Jim Stogdill, Roger Magoulas and I enjoyed a widely discursive discussion last week, available as a podcast above. Roger, fresh from our Fluent conference on JavaScript, opens by talking about the emergence of JS as a heavyweight computing tool and the importance of openness in its growth. A few other links related to our discussion:
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WeatherSpark, a great nerdy way to see the weather forecast.
- AngularJS is an open-source MVC framework for JavaScript, developed by Google.
- Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie are based in a beautiful campus on the site of the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
- George Dyson’s excellent Turing’s Cathedral is a history of early computing. (Related to another part of our conversation, about legacy systems, he has also written about companies that still use punch cards.)
- The New Yorker on efforts to find the legendary White City in Honduras using laser rangefinders.
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