Blog from the Loft

Massachusetts department of transportation, Mass DOT, recently decided to
offer real time and other transit data on a trial basis to the public. I attended
their very first developer conference (official website). My Notes follow:
Open is Good – Don’t Build Apps like Bridges
The central message was voiced by many presenters: Open is good for everyone. The case [...]

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Michael Faraday’s lectures at the Royal Institution in London – “The Chemical History of the Candle” :
A candle is beautiful. “Beauty means not the best-looking things, but the best-acting thing.” A candle is beautiful because its functioning elegantly and efficiently rests upon a wide range of universal laws. The heat of the flame melts the [...]

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