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This has been floating around for a while, but later this week pre-orders will start to be taken: Optimus Maximus Keyboard http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/ The current price tag and production schedule leaves it out of real contention for a year or so, but this is awesome. It’s a keyboard using tiny organice LEDs (touch-sensitive) to render a [...]

Krugle claims it’s the search engine for developers, making it easy for developers to find source code and technical information, fast. Trent was thinking of barcoding from Java. He clicked on the Projects tab, typed “barcode”, and selected “Java”. Sweet. He showed me the slide-out window on the right-hand side for browsing the source repository, [...]

My erstwhile colleague, JR, has dropped me a note that his new company has just launched their website http://www.cambrianhouse.com/ Check it out for yourself and you can chase Her Majesty around their office. I wonder if Cambrian House will be sending ThoughtWorks an elephant full of Coke?

Dropped into this seminar last night to hear four speakers discuss the “new” phenomenon of humans sharing information with each other. Of course, this conversation was set in the content of the Web and mobile devices, and although many of us have been doing it online for years, it’s at the maelstrom level of maturity [...]

Memphis – Day 1 What do you do at 4am local time after 24 hours of travelling across the planet and a few hours of sleep? After perusing documentation and wondering whether to bug people back home, you start wondering what time it is. Then you wonder whether Yahoo has a World Time tab like [...]