http://www.stephendrobinson.com Robotics, Running, and Software Requirements Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:52:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night's event was a great success. It was especially encouraging to meet so many software developers and representatives of the local community including Mayor John DeStefano of New Haven and the Vice President and Director of New Haven and State Affairs Bruce Alexander of Yale University.  If you couldn't make it but ... http://www.stephendrobinson.com/software-requirements/presentation-on-popular-web-application-frameworks/ Here it is, the new blogging feature. You can now easily just drop some code into your blog page and get your favorite trail out there on the web. Here's a great ice-cream ride I found - looking forward to trying it out! You can just download the trail into ... http://www.stephendrobinson.com/running/new-wikiwalki-blog-feature/ The new interface for www.wikiwalki.com has been in the works for a while now and now it's here ... Cool new feature alert ...  - Browse all our trails by scrolling the map  - Elevation and trail distance auto calculation  - Watchzones to keep an eye out for new trails in your area (think free hiking ... http://www.stephendrobinson.com/running/new-version-of-wikiwalki-launched/ Title : Know thy Enemy: Ruby on Rails for PHP Developers Presented at : IBM 590 Madison Avenue, New York Date : Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Talk Overview : Looking for a reality check on all that Ruby on Rails hype? What exactly is it and how does it stack up to PHP? ... http://www.stephendrobinson.com/business-and-technology/framework-selection-talk-rails-vs-php-vs-java/ Check out the new search feature that's been added to the erequirements system. Benefits include: Page your way through multiple projects Search by title or project description See top line summary information for each of the projects http://www.stephendrobinson.com/software-requirements/new-erequirements-project-search-page/ If magnetic poetry inspires you to half incoherent, half illiterate and wholly inappropriate sentences, GuiMags can provide you with a path out of the destructive to constructive. Simply buy a set of these magnetic user interface widgets and start plastering the white of that fridge away. Boring parties be gone, ... http://www.stephendrobinson.com/software-requirements/magnetic-poetry-for-the-business-analyst/ Due to popular request and some quick installation features of dreamhost, WikiWalki now has Forum. Please check it out, or better yet, add a post! http://www.stephendrobinson.com/running/wikiwalki-forum-launched/ Great run, up until my iPod's wire snagged the edge of the pier's railing. It shot out of my hand and into Long Island sound! Goodbye sweet iShuffle :( Click here to see it on WikiWalki http://www.stephendrobinson.com/running/the-day-the-music-died/ "Money spent on computing technology delivers gains in worker productivity that are three to five times those of other investments, according to a study being published Tuesday. " - news.com Here's the summary of the report ... "There have been surprisingly few attempts to catalogue what is known about the economic impact ... http://www.stephendrobinson.com/business-and-technology/technology-provides-3-5-times-productivity/ Companies run on process. Employees follow procedures, gather information, perform tasks, report results, and conduct a myriad other activities that generate productivity and profit. Technology’s strength is to make these tasks even more efficient, and for common activities there exist affordable products. On an individual level, think of the productivity ... http://www.stephendrobinson.com/business-and-technology/whats-a-business-application/