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- I?ve started a new blog
Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:16:00 +0000
I still haven't decided what to do with the software stories podcast series. I enjoyed doing it, but I have the feeling that computer people just aren't that interested in the past. After all, how is understanding the past going to help them build better products? Yes, that is a ... - Taking a Break to Redesign
Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:41:44 +0000
Now that I've done seven podcasts, I have a much better idea of what works and what doesn't. I also know where I need more technology, like in recording multi-party phone conversations. I'm going to take a break here for a few weeks and figure the best way to go ... - Software Stories #7: My Life in Software
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Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:06:20 +0000
When I interviewed Chris Kelty for episode 4, I explained how much I had to learn about doing interviews, so he volunteered to come back and show me how a professsional anthropologist would do it. We discussed my 20 years in the software and dot-com world. If you listen to ... - Software Stories #6: The Death of Ashton-Tate (28mb)
Sun, 06 Mar 2005 12:04:28 +0000
dBASE was a big part of my life. After writing the first book on the dBASE language in 1981, I spent the next 12 years on the road teaching dBASE seminars. This week we'll look at the failure of Ashton-Tate, dBASE's publisher. There are many reasons for the death of ... - Software Stories #5: It?s All About Microsoft (27mb)
Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:37:40 +0000
[This is a repeat posting. Wordpress crunched my original post for some reason.] This week I invited some of my old friends from the software business over for dinner. As usually happens at this type of dinner, we ended up talking about Microsoft most of the time. My guests included: Vadim Yasinovsky. ... - Software Stories #4: An Anthropologist?s View (28mb)
Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:51:27 +0000
As a change from the usual software industry guests, I interviewed Chris Kelty, an anthropology professor at Rice University. This year he is a visiting scholar at Harvard while he finishes his book on the Open Source movement. We got together at the History of Science department offices, and ... - Software Stories #3: The Education of Adam Bosworth (30mb)
Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:31:23 +0000
This week I interviewed Adam Bosworth, the Vice President of Engineering for Google, and the creator of many successful programs, including the Quattro spreadsheet at Borland and the Microsoft Access database. We talked about the lessons he learned from the failure of Reflex, his first mass-market database. Like Adam, I ... - Software Stories #2: The Birth of Podcasting (26mb)
Sun, 06 Feb 2005 14:07:46 +0000
This week?s episode is an experiment in doing history using existing podcasts. Instead of performing new interviews, I sampled several podcast interviews with Dave Winer and Adam Curry to create their self-described story of the birth of podcasting. Hopefully, as more oral histories are published as podcasts, historians will be ... - Software Stories #1: Naming Software and Companies in the Eighties (28mb)
Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:53:23 +0000
The first podcast is ready for your listening pleasure. The participants are: Hal Pawluk - Advertising guy for Ashton-Tate who named dBASE II. Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston - Creators of VisiCalc. Jeffrey Tarter - Editor and publisher of Softletter for over 20 years, and now a consultant to software companies on design ... - How to Listen to Podcasts
Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:02:25 +0000
Podcasts are mp3 files that may be played on any computer or mp3 player. You do not need an iPod to listen to a podcast. They were given their name because with the proper software you can have them downloaded and placed onto an iPod automatically. There are three ...
