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• There is no expertise without experience
• It takes something on the order of ten years/ 10,000 hours of practice to be expert in a field
• Deliberate, thoughtful practice is what makes the difference—not just going through the motions. 
• Practice doesn’t make perfect, but it does make permanent: neuroplasticity will cause your brain to re-wire itself according to what you do.

“We’ve all seen arguments in the design community that dismiss the role of beauty in visual interfaces, insisting that good designers base their choices strictly on matters of branding or basic design principles. Lost in these discussions is an understanding of the powerful role aesthetics play in shaping how we come to know, feel, and respond.”

“This document summarizes the initial research for adding distributed version control as an option for Google Code. Based on popularity, two distributed version control systems were considered: Git and Mercurial. This document describes the features of the two systems, and provides an overview of the work required to integrate them with Google Code.”

“… things that influence the path a wiki takes in the WikiLifeCycle, either causing a divergent path to be taken or advancing/reversing progress through various stages.”

We’ve all seen arguments in the design community that dismiss the role of beauty in visual interfaces, insisting that good designers base their choices strictly on matters of branding or basic design principles. Lost in these discussions is an understanding of the powerful role aesthetics play in shaping how we come to know, feel, and respond.

It’s a book about finding fulfillment in what you do. It’s a book about rekindling the fires that you felt when you first entered the profession. It’s a book about creating a career, rather than turning up for a job.

The Three Projections of Futamura are a sequence of applications of a programming technique called ‘partial evaluation’ or ‘specialisation’, each one more mind-bending than the previous one.

This document summarizes the initial research for adding distributed version control as an option for Google Code. Based on popularity, two distributed version control systems were considered: Git and Mercurial. This document describes the features of the two systems, and provides an overview of the work required to integrate them with Google Code.

… things that influence the path a wiki takes in the WikiLifeCycle, either causing a divergent path to be taken or advancing/reversing progress through various stages.

Free tutorial?

This article covers two options, one using the Helma NG webapp framework, and one using the Jack interface for JavaScript web applications. Both are currently unfinished and subject to change, but it’s enough to get your feet wet.