Eric Freeman's WeblogArtima Weblogs is a community of bloggers posting on a wide range of topics of interest to software developers.Excerpt: Beyond Lifestreams, the inevitable demise of the Desktop Metaphor- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Search has become the holy grail of the desktop. While search on the desktop is nothing new - Microsoft has been pursuing WinFS in fits and starts over more than the last decade - but this time something is different: everyone thinks it's important.http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=84331 Are Weblogs an Incarnation of Lifestreams- (Found July 8, 2008 ) An interesting (old) post in Artima's Java Buzz titled "Are Weblogs an Incarnation of Lifestreams" by Hugo Pinto asks if Weblogs are the first widely-adopted incarnation of LifeStreams As it happens I'm finishing up a historical piece on Lifestreams that is going to be published by MIT Press and I've been asking myself that very question.http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=82154 Announcing Head First Design Patterns- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Not your father's Design Patterns book, Head First Design Patterns provides a unique learning guide to Design Patterns and OO design.http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=79646 |