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Bernie Madoff Victims' Recovery Rises to Nearly $10.5bn
Bankruptcy trustee Irving Picard has distributed some $6bn so far.
By M Rochan
November 19, 2014 07:09 GMT
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The trustee recovering money for jailed fraudster Bernard Madoff's victims has announced two more agreements that will help recover over $145m.
New York lawyer Irving Picard, the court-appointed bankruptcy trustee tasked with reimbursing duped investors victims said on 18 November that he reached a $95m (£61m, €76m) settlement with Senator Fund SPC. The deal is subject to court approval.
Senator is a Cayman Islands "feeder fund" that had invested customer money exclusively with Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities.
Picard also said a federal bankruptcy judge had approved a separate settlement worth at least $50.5m with defendants including New York-based property developer Edward Blumenfeld, Reuters reported.
That settlement could eventually be worth some $62.1m, according to Picard and court papers.
$10.5bn Recovered
Tuesday's deal boosted the total amount recovered to nearly $10.5bn, roughly 60% of the $17.5bn in principal Picard said was lost by Madoff's former customers.
Picard has thus far distributed nearly $6bn.
Tuesday's deals followed a $496.8m settlement announced on 17 November with two other Cayman Islands investment funds, Herald and Primeo.
Madoff Victim Fund
Former US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Richard Breeden manages the US justice department's $4.05bn Madoff Victim Fund, created to compensate customers and third parties who lost money.
Breeden received more than 51,700 claims from 119 countries, including Kazakhstan, Madagascar and Vietnam, at the close of the claim period on 30 April.
That figure was more than three times the number of claims filed during the Madoff bankruptcy proceedings.
Madoff, 76, pleaded guilty to fraud in 2009, following his arrest in December 2008, and was sentenced to 150 years in prison for controlling the biggest Ponzi scheme in history.
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Managing array sizing should not be a guessing game.
Managing your COBOL array sizing is an important part of owning your PeopleSoft Pension Administration software. Setting array bounds too high wastefully increases processing loads and makes your system less efficient. But when a calculation unexpectedly exceeds the bounds of a COBOL array, the process fails, resulting in cryptic error messages and requiring complicated trouble shooting.
The Array Analysis Utility is designed to investigate parameter setup and employee data for the potential to exceed defined array sizes. Potential problems are identified with varying severity of warning messages. Technical information is provided about the array grouping and usage and a prescription for problem avoidance and resolution is provided.
While managing arrays is a critical component of owning your software implementation, the delivered software product provides no utility to support this important task. This tool is built entirely within the PeopleTools suite as a "bolt-on" project, facilitating one of the most problematic elements of managing your software implementation. Without this tool, developers are blindly estimating values and they would be unable to measure efficiency of their array sizing.


This is an instant collection for a young collector.
This Fossil Bag contains 10 genuine fossil specimens, of excellent quality, with cute magnifying glass, geological time line and written information on each fossil. Dinosaur bone, brachiopod, echinoid, petrified wood, trilobite, stingray tooth plate, gastropod, coral, and orthoceras. A great and educational present for a young rock collector. There is so much treasure in this bag!


We are pleased to invite you with your family and friends to our first Garba event.
Garba is a folk dance from Gujarat state which is now enjoyed all over India as well as in different parts of the world. Men and women dress up in traditional colorful dresses and come out together for 9 consecutive nights during Navratri days in Autumn to celebrate the victory of Goddess Durga over the demon Mahishasur. The tenth day is celebrated as Dussehra and Diwali follows after a few weeks.
Garba folk dance is now adapted everywhere to celebrate communities and enjoy the harvest time and get into joyous spirits.
Garba can be both fast and slow-paced dance performed in circles. Women traditionally wear colorful 'ghaghra-choli' and men wear the 'Kediyu (shirt) and the Kafni.
At times you might see a combination of both Garba and Dandiya (a dance performed with colorful sticks) during the Navratri days.
Garba dance steps are simple to follow and any newcomer can quickly get into the rhythm after observing a few moves. One can also find many videos and tutorials on Garba on YouTube.
Dance lessons prior to the start time.
We hope to see you on October 20th!


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Ivy Ralph the Original Diva, says daughter Sheryl
Although it was a phone interview, there was no doubt that Sheryl Lee Ralph's face lit up when she started talking about her mother, Ivy Ralph.
The warmth and admiration that are due from a daughter to a good mother were evident in her tone. But equally so was a deep respect for the achievements of a woman who is regarded as a pioneer of Jamaica's fashion industry.
That the Jamaican Government saw it fit, in 1999, to invest Ivy Ralph with an Order of Distinction (OD) for outstanding contribution to the promotion of fashion for export was not surprising. After all, her creation of the Kareeba suit in the early 1970s started a fashion trend that spread globally.
"It was an idea I had as a child, a more comfortable style of dress for men. I wanted to help them get away from the jacket-and-tie routine, to something far more comfortably suited to the island's climate," Ivy Ralph is quoted in her biography.
Jamaica's then Prime Minister Michael Manley, the bio explained, "saw the ensemble and immediately sought out Ralph. The rest, as the saying goes, is history. It took off like wildfire, everybody wanted a Kareeba and she was busy night and day just trying to keep up with the orders, exporting to Saks Fifth Ave, B Altman, and top boutiques across the USA and the Caribbean".
The Kareeba, which was the subject of an article in the New York Times on March 24, 1976, was embraced by world leaders and celebrities, among them Barbados' Prime Minister Errol Barrow, Guyana's President Forbes Burnham, Tanzania President Julius Nyerere, the king of Swaziland, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammed Ali, and American pop star Michael Jackson in his young days.
"The Kareeba, the styled, open-neck, over-the-pants shirt and matching trousers suit has become the universally accepted dress for formal occasions, work and leisure wear," New York Times reporter Ralph Blumenthal wrote in this 1976 article.
"When I hear my mother's name it's like they're talking about some queen," Sheryl Lee Ralph told the Jamaica Observer last Wednesday.
She said that while the OD is one of the highest honours that the country can bestow on its citizens, the abbreviation, to her, means more than Order of Distinction. "For me, I say it's Original Diva, yes!" the accomplished stage, film and television actress, and HIV/AIDS activist explained.
"She is the original diva, divinely inspired, victoriously audacious," she added. "I remember finding this huge, half-page article above the fold in the New York Times talking about this woman, Ivy Ralph, who was transforming men's wear throughout the Caribbean and I was like, wow! That's my mommy; wow!"
Before embarking on her stellar career as a fashion designer, Ivy — who was born in Chantilly, Manchester, in June 1928 — had travelled to the United States to become a nurse, her daughter told the Sunday Observer.
There, she met Dr Stanley Ralph at a hospital in Harlem and they got married, enjoying a loving and wonderful life, silencing those who had expressed doubts to the young Jamaican that the relationship would last.
"People were telling her he's an American and you know how Americans can be to West Indians, are you sure you want to do that. She said, 'you watch me'," Sheryl Lee Ralph told the Sunday Observer.
After living in the US for some time, the family moved back to Mandeville, Jamaica, where Sheryl Lee Ralph remembers participating in dance performances during Independence celebrations.
"Soon after that we went back to the States. Dad was out of grad school and we were there for another few years, and you know, mommy had this love for Jamaica — she was never going to be away from Jamaica. In fact, when she was there she said 'You know what, take me back to Jamaica because if I die in America I will never rest.' She said 'I cannot die here'," Sheryl Lee Ralph shared.
Her mother's decision meant that Sheryl had to commute between both countries as she balanced her career with maintaining her strong bond with her mother. That, though, was not a bother to the actress because, like her mother, she has an undying love for Jamaica.
"She always said if you're going to design for Jamaica you must design here. You can't buy up there and change the label," Sheryl said.
"I remember when money was tight at one point, she said I must work with what is available to me, and she went and bought a whole bunch of old flour bags and turned them into these incredible shirts, which started a whole new trend because everybody was now taking crocus bags and flour bags, sugar bags... making hats out of them. She said you must support Jamaica and she was repurposing what was just pushed aside."
"To this day we'll get calls from people from London, Australia, Paris, New York, asking if they can get the white blouse with the madras skirt, you know the bandana. Somebody will call every year asking if they can get one," Sheryl Lee Ralph said.
Pointing to her mother's ability to create fashion items from material that most people would discard, she said Ivy Ralph would make cord from scraps and pieces of fabric.
"I have been wearing these necklaces and everybody asks where you get that from and I would say 'Miss Ivy, baby, Miss Ivy'; still tunning her han' mek fashion. I'll miss that," added Sheryl, who said that her mother is not now in the best of health.
Ivy Ralph, graduate of the Fashion Institute of New York and founder of The House of Ivy, celebrated her 90th birthday in June this year. According to her biography, her friends had determined very early that the young woman, who could always be found with pins in her mouth while sewing, was destined to become a designer, "because she once swallowed a pin in sewing class and never stopped until the dress she was sewing was finished".
Sheryl shares the view that their mother is "one of Jamaica's most influential women".
But even more, the actress related, is that her mother is simply "a wonderful human being, devoted mother and wife, and a great Jamaican".
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Cheers to Walshy Fire!

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One of the most common questions I receive from Domino administrators is about e-mail filtering.
One of the most common questions I receive from Domino administrators is about e-mail filtering. Administrators want to block or limit unwanted inbound e-mail. The unwanted e-mail may be "spam" (unsolicited advertisements), e-mail from a normally trusted party with a virus attached, or may be e-mail that is solicited by a user but is not appropriate for the organization. An example of the latter might be any e-mail with a large attachment, say greater than 1MB. Because this question is so common, and because there are some new solutions to the problem, I decided to address the issue in this month's tip.
First, let me make a point about what administrators realistically can achieve. Preventing spam and viruses is not an option. The people who send spam and create viruses are too clever, and every time you close one door to them they find another way in. What you can hope to do, however, is reduce the amount of unwanted e-mail your organization receives. With this goal in mind, let's look at the methods at your disposal.
The first line of defense against unwanted e-mail, and the least expensive, is to use the e-mail filtering controls that are built into Domino. These are located in the Domino Public Directory (names.nsf). Go to the view Server / Configurations. Open the configuration document for the server you want to control. Open the tabs Router-SMTP / Restrictions & Controls / Restrictions. (And the nearby tab SMTP Inbound Controls.) You will see a number of options here that allow you to block known spam domains and limit message size. Most of the options are self-explanatory, but for full details see Domino Administration Help / Index / Spamming / Preventing.
Some of the products work with SMTP e-mail format. They operate on messages that are coming into (or out of) your organization, but not on 'pure Notes mail' that is delivered between Notes clients. In other words, they allow you to block an offensive e-mail from the outside world but not from one of your own users.
Each product has strengths and weaknesses. Be sure to have a clear idea of what you want to accomplish (virus control versus anti-spam, for instance) and evaluate the products with your goals in mind.
You can find more information about these, and other, third-party security products on my web site DominoSecurity.org. Go to the home page, scroll down a bit, then click on Products. Do you have comments or questions on this tip? Visit our security forum and post a question or comment.
Chuck Connell is president of CHC-3 Consulting, which helps organizations with all aspects of Domino and Notes, especially administration and security. CHC-3 helps companies to outsource their Domino administration needs via the web site DominoAdministration.comand runs the popular security site DominoSecurity.org.


The way we communicate with others makes a difference. Always remember that every one is unique and they perceive things differently. So your message must be tailored to the needs of each type of personality.
Matt Greener has given a hint on the importance of designing for personality types and why you should care.
Sharks are people who take action. They are goal getter ,aggressive and are fast in taking actions without analyzing all details. If you go with them for shopping, they can buy anything they see and blow out the budget!
Sharks are always motivated, ready to take control of a situation. When communicating to sharks, your message must be quick and to the point… do not go into much details, then you will lose them.
Urchins are type of personality that want to analyse the information at hand before they can take action. To win them, be respectful and give more details. You may visit them so many times before they can agree or take up your offer.
Dolphins are out going,fun and loving people. They mix well with any persons,including strangers. They always want to be part of the group. But they are easily swayed and may leave the group and join another group. These are people who move from one company to another before they can get established. They need coaching and mentoring in order to be stable in their businesses.To communicate with the dolphins, you must get excited, fun by emphasizing group work and social inclination or support.
Whale personality. These are people who show caring and are very supportive. They are usually dedicated to serve others and improve the" world" They thrive on supporting team work and also being supported.
Therefore to be at per with whales, you must show compassion and be thoughtful. Then you will win their support.
Matt explains that dealing with different personalities require tactics for example, if you tell a whale that they can make lots of money and be top achievers, they will not be interested in your offer, but a shark would be interested and excited! You would think that the whale had no ambition.
But if you twist the message and explain to them that by making money and being the top achievers, they will be able to help others and empower them for ever. This will interest them and may join your business or project that you were promoting.
In dealing with different personalities, you must be aware of emotional triggers. Use this powerful knowledge to improve your marketing communication and how to get along with everybody in your journey of success.
How can I communicate with the four personalities?
What emotional trigger does my message?
What can I do to improve my message so that it is appealing to others?
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This section describes the Endpoint Encryption issues and limitations grouped according to agent or console.
If a domain user has the Enterprise Administrator or Enterprise Authenticator role, no event log is created when Active Directory synchronization is unsuccessful.
PolicyServer MMC is unable to display information for multiple enterprises. PolicyServer is only able to display the first enterprise entered into PolicyServer MMC.
After deploying a new policy from Control Manager to PolicyServer, a new policy group does not immediately appear in PolicyServer MMC. To see the new policy group, log off from PolicyServer MMC and log back on.
Users cannot be added to the policy if the Users panel in Control Manager Policy Management is disabled.
Deleting a policy that was created in Control Manager does not delete the policy from PolicyServer. The policy can still be viewed in PolicyServer MMC.
If the OfficeScan administrator tries to deploy server settings to PolicyServer using an Endpoint Encryption user account, an error message returns that the connection was unsuccessful.
Plug-in Manager does not display an error message when installing the Endpoint Encryption Deployment Tool Plug-in on a server that does not meet the minimum system requirement of 1 GB free hard disk space.
The Endpoint Encryption device may still appear in Plug-in Manager even after the Endpoint Encryption agent has been uninstalled. Agents will disappear the next time that PolicyServer synchronizes with OfficeScan and the Plug-In Manager screen refreshes.
Endpoint Encryption users with a one-time password (OTP) are only allowed to deploy agents using the Endpoint Encryption Deployment Tool Plug-in once. All future deployments are unsuccessful. After the first deployment, the user must set a fixed password before performing deployment again.
When the uninstall command is deployed from OfficeScan to Full Disk Encryption devices, the message "Successful agent uninstallation request" appears before uninstallation has completed. Endpoint Encryption decrypts the endpoint before completing uninstallation.
The following are the Full Disk Encryption issues and limitations.
Full Disk Encryption does not support endpoints with multiple hard drives.
The Full Disk Encryption preboot login may encounter reduced performance if the Wi-Fi adapter is connected to an access point with no network access to PolicyServer.
This issue occurs when the PolicyServer IP address is used during Full Disk Encryption installation. Use the PolicyServer FQDN during installation to resolve the issue.
The Full Disk Encryption preboot Wi-Fi is unable to automatically detect access points with WEP-Shared security.
Manually specify WEP-OPEN or WEP-PSK security.
The Full Disk Encryption preboot is unable to log on Windows 8, 8.1, or 10 when installed on a virtual machine using VMWare Workstation with the e1000e Ethernet driver.
The e1000e Ethernet driver is the default driver for Windows 8 and 8.1. Full Disk Encryption does not support the e1000e Ethernet driver.
Using a text editor, open the vmware.vmx file.
Save the file and restart the virtual machine.
Full Disk Encryption displays an error message and is unable to lock the system when the "LockDeviceTimeDelay" policy is 999999 minutes.
Full Disk Encryption is unable to log on by single sign-on when the endpoint wakes from hibernation.
When a user logs on Full Disk Encryption, the tray icon shows the correct user name. However, if the user logs off after the endpoint hibernates and another user logs on, the user name stills shows the previous user name. No user data is at risk.
Toshiba Tecra computers with self-encrypting drives may be unable to run Windows after installing Full Disk Encryption.
The Full Disk Encryption preboot does not support combinations of characters with the "AltGr" key when using a Spanish keyboard layout.
The Full Disk Encryption preboot is unable to control the Num Lock indicator for some HP laptops. In those cases, the Num Lock indicator can be configured in the BIOS settings.
Full Disk Encryption does not support installation alongside other third-party full disk encryption products. If multiple encryption products are installed on the same endpoint, the endpoint may be unable to start Windows and may display a blue screen error message.
The Full Disk Encryption Recovery Tool is unable to communicate with PolicyServer in a pure IPv6 network.
To avoid this issue, ensure that your network includes an IPv4 connection to PolicyServer.
The Full Disk Encryption Recovery Tool may encounter errors when logging on Zoom by single-sign on, or by using Google or Facebook accounts.
To avoid this issue, only use Zoom to connect to meetings hosted by Trend Micro support. Do not attempt to host meetings through the Recovery Tool.
If you attempt to delete files or folders in an encrypted folder, Windows prompts the following error: "Can't read from the source file or disk."
This error occurs because File Encryption is unable to move deleted files and folders in an encrypted folder to the Recycle Bin. To delete files and folders in an encrypted folder, use the permanent delete command Shift + Delete.
File Encryption does not support "Self Help" questions and answers. At registration, if the Endpoint Encryption user goes to the "Change Password" screen, the user should be given "Self Help" challenge questions.
After upgrading PolicyServer and File Encryption from 3.1.3 SP1 to 5.0, policies are unable to synchronize if the File Encryption 3.1.3 agent uses port 8080 (TMEE Service) during registration.
After upgrading PolicyServer and File Encryption from 3.1.3 SP1 to 5.0, authentication is locked at the "Change Password" screen if the File Encryption 3.1.3 agent used port 8080 (TMEE Service port) during registration.
Uninstalling File Encryption without restarting the endpoint does not automatically remove the program from the Add/Remove Programs list.
The legal notice does not appear when the endpoint starts.
The File Encryption agent desktop shortcut and agent icon flash when the File Encryption agent synchronizes with PolicyServer.
There are no known issues for Encryption Management for Microsoft BitLocker in this release.


With just a handful of games to go until the end of the season, who looks best-placed to beat the drop?
Can Grimsby Town do enough to remain in the Football League this season?
There are just three games remaining for Grimsby Town in their fight against relegation from League Two – and things remain wide open at the foot of the table.
Saturday's point against Barnet leaves the Mariners five points above the drop zone, meaning they still have the upper hand on the Bees and Chesterfield, who occupy the bottom two.
But with a difficult run-in facing them in their final few games, Michael Jolley's men are far from safe, and may even need a few favours along the way from other teams.
Remaining fixtures: Crewe (A) Apr 21; Cambridge (H) Apr 24; Barnet (H) Apr 28; Coventry (A) May 5.
Verdict: Seven points above the relegation zone, you'd imagine Jim Bentley's side are safe – although they're making hard work of guaranteeing it.
A win over Chesterfield last week would most likely have done the job, but they let their two-goal lead slip and dropped two points in the process, meaning they're still in the scrap for the moment.
Just a point from their next two games against Crewe and Cambridge should be enough to confirm another season of League Two football – and with Barnet coming up after those two, they'll be eager to get the job done straight away.
What they need: Six points would absolutely guarantee safety, but it's more than likely they'll need just one or two to stay up.
Remaining fixtures: Chesterfield (H) Apr 21; Yeovil (A) Apr 24; Luton (A) Apr 28; Grimsby Town (H) May 5.
Verdict: Their win at Cheltenham on Saturday will have done them the world of good, and eases the pressure on them quite a bit.
They're still six points off the drop zone, so remain in the fight at the bottom, but with a clash against bottom side Chesterfield this weekend, they could guarantee their safety and send the Spireites down in the process.
And with tough trips to Yeovil and Luton coming up – as well as that final day clash with Town – they may need to get things done and dusted this weekend.
What they need: Assuming Chesterfield can pull off a miracle and win all their remaining games, Rovers will need seven points to stay safe. But with that situation highly unlikely, a win over the Spireites this weekend should keep them up.
Remaining fixtures: Swindon (A) Apr 21; Notts County (H) Apr 28; Forest Green (A) May 5.
Verdict: Time will tell how crucial Mitch Rose's penalty against Barnet was on Saturday, but for now the Mariners are still firmly in a fight.
Their fate is still in their hands, but with a tricky couple of games coming up against Swindon and Notts County, they may have to rely on favours elsewhere.
PLAYER RATINGS - Who impressed?
Every Town fan will be hoping their side are safe before that final day trip to Forest Green, but until then, they'll be looking nervously over their shoulders at Barnet, who look to have a much more favourable run-in.
What they need: Again, if Chesterfield perform a miracle, Town will need eight points. Realistically though, the worry will be Barnet, so they'll likely need at least a couple of points from Swindon and Notts County, or a favour from Newport or Morecambe against Barnet to avoid any last-day nerves.
Remaining fixtures: Newport (H) Apr 21; Morecambe (A) Apr 28; Chesterfield (H) May 5.
Verdict: The Martin Allen effect is taking hold of the Bees and, despite being five points from safety with three games left, they are still very much alive.
Barnet are helped by the fact that Town – the team they look most likely to catch – face a difficult run-in, while the London side will fancy their chances of picking up points in their last three games.
So delicate is the situation though that even a point against Newport could see them go do down this weekend – Mariners fans will hope former striker Padraig Amond can do them a massive favour at the Hive.
What they need: Their run-in might be kinder than other teams', but Allen's side still have it all to do. They'll need to win their next two games to possibly put them in control on the final day – defeat to Newport or Morecambe though could be the end though.
Remaining fixtures: Exeter (A) Apr 17; Forest Green (A) Apr 21; Wycombe (H) Apr 28; Newport (H) May 1; Barnet (A) May 5.
Verdict: Their defeat against Mansfield on Saturday might not quite be the final nail in the coffin, but it certainly comes close.
Seven points from safety, it's looking bleak for the Spireites and former Mariner Jack Lester, who could find themselves relegated come 5pm this Saturday if results elsewhere go against them.
Their saving grace could be the two games in hand they still hold, but with one of them coming in the shape of a daunting trip to Exeter tomorrow evening, it looks like it will be a second relegation in a row.
What they need: The Spireites have it all to do, and their run-in isn't particularly forgiving. They'll need a win over Forest Green this weekend to stay in touch of those above them, but they'll realistically need around ten points to have a chance of survival, which looks unlikely.
Do you think Grimsby Town will stay up?


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Inside MoMA's Classic Video Games Exhibit
By Lauren Indvik 2013-03-01 22:21:35 UTC
MoMA: "Applied Design"
The Museum of Modern Art
The exhibit is held on the third floor of the Museum of Modern Art on 11 West 53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues.
Image by Nina Frazier, Mashable
"Tetris"
The original (colorless) version of Tetris (1984) has been installed in the gallery, a gift from the Tetris Company. The animated puzzle game was created by Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov. It has since been adapted for a wide variety of media, from most computer and video game consoles to graphing calculators.
Image: Image by Nina Frazier, Mashable
"Pac-Man"
Pac-Man (1980) is likely to be one of the most popular games on display, which is why it was placed near the elevator exit, says Paola Antonelli, senior curator of the MoMA's department of architecture and design.
Controllers have been made available for most games on display.
"Dwarf Fortress"
Dwarf Fortress is perhaps the most visually difficult game on display. Although the single-player game was released in 2006, its creators aimed for retro appeal, opting for two-dimensional, text-based graphics instead of a realistic, 3D-interface. Without the captions, it can be difficult, in my experience, to decipher the movements of the objects on the screen. The goal of the game is to build a dwarf settlement by mining resources and forging alliances with other parties.
"vib-ribbon"
A member of the press takes Sony's Vib-ribbon for a spin (1999).
"Sim City 2000"
Since it takes a comparatively long while to make any headway in Sim City 2000, the MoMA has set up two video demos, one (with a surprisingly informal audio overlay) outlining character creation, and another illustrating game play.
"Passage"
Passage (2008) is a computer game in which players are challenged to lead a couple through the span of their adult lifetimes, represented in a 2D-space filled with obstacles and (sometimes empty) treasure chests. The game, interesting more for its metaphoric possibilities than the gameplay it offers, ends every five minutes when both partners die.
"Katamari Damacy"
First released in Japan, Katamari Damacy (2004) is a third-person adventure game in which a prince is tasked to rebuild the stars, constellations and moon his father destroyed.
"Portal"
Portal is a multi-platform puzzle game released in 2007.
"flOw"
flOw (2007) was originally released as a Flash-based game in 2006, and was later adapted for PlayStation 3. The game has no background story or onboarding process: players, operating a multi-jointed, aquatic organism, navigate layers of 2D planes, consuming (and sometimes, being consumed by) other organisms along the way.
On Friday, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City invited visitors to its third floor to view its newly acquired collection of 14 video games. The games, which include beloved classics like Pac-Man, Tetris and Myst, as well as lesser-known titles like flOw and Dwarf Fortress, are part of an exhibit called "Applied Design," on view until next January.
Fourteen screens are set into the black walls of the gallery. Resting beneath most of those screens are controllers inviting visitors to sample games one at a time. For games that require a considerable time investment (say, more than 10 minutes) to get into the heart of gameplay, such as EVE Online or Sim City 2000, visual demos, captioned either with text or audio, have been set up in place of the games themselves.
You can preview the exhibit by clicking through the photos above. To learn more, check out our earlier coverage.
Photo by Nina Frazier for Mashable.
Topics: art, Entertainment, gallery, Gaming, moma, museum of modern art, museums, Travel, Travel & Leisure, U.S.


I don't know about you, but I was actually looking forward to Amazon's Fire Phone. In advance of its introduction to the world, I followed all the news and leaks.
Even if I had no serious plans to buy the Fire Phone, I hoped. I hoped for something revolutionary, be it features, a service, or even a truly great flagship phone at a budget price. I hoped that I would be wowed, that I'd have that familiar feeling of phone envy that I get whenever something newer and shinier than the phone I'm carrying in my pocket is unveiled to the world. I hoped that what Jeff Bezos would hold up to the world would be some kind of game-changer.
And I held on to that hope right up until Amazon's press event began in Seattle on Wednesday and the details began hitting the Internet, crushing my hope, delivering disappointment and leaving me with an overwhelming feeling that I'd been a naive sucker.
Because what Bezos and Co. introduced was nothing more than a device offering a faster, more streamlined way to buy more products from Amazon. A button on the side of the Fire Phone summons Firefly, an app that can recognize movies and TV shows, songs, phone numbers, websites, and email addresses just by looking at or hearing them. But its core function upon recognizing an item is to link to Amazon.com so that you can easily purchase that item.
This isn't to say that I didn't see some form of this coming. Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet line has done an excellent job of pulling customers into its ecosystem. Kindle Fires are excellent devices because they offer a simple, intuitive experience at a great value, undercutting the prices of premium tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab, Google Nexus line, and even the king of tablets, Apple's iPad models.
But that's not the strategy Amazon is using with its Fire Phone. Amazon thinks we're all suckers, offering the Fire Phone at the same starting price as an Apple iPhone 5s or Samsung Galaxy S5, $199. In no universe is the Fire Phone on par with the speed, functionality and user experience of an iPhone 5s or Galaxy S5.
This isn't to say the Fire Phone has horrible specs. It doesn't. But they don't trump the iPhone 5s and Galaxy S5. And this is Amazon's first go at a smartphone, using an operating system, Fire OS 3.5, that's a forked, dumbed-down version of Android. And despite using Google's OS as a base to build on, Amazon devices have no access to the Google Play Store and its multitude of apps.
If you're keeping score at home, the Fire Phone is lacking in the hardware, software and app departments. But, hey, look at everything you can buy from Amazon! Charging $199 for a 21st century mobile shopping cart is an insult to the intelligence of nearly every smartphone customer out there.
And for that matter, Amazon can't even reach nearly every smartphone customer because it has an exclusive deal with AT&T. So if you're on a different carrier, you're out of luck, though maybe you should consider yourself lucky as this will save you from wasting your money on this cellular shopping cart.


The wonderful and prolific author Sally Odgers wrote about her exciting new book Clovie Trefoil - book one of the series The Fairies of Farholt at http://spinningpearls.blogspot.com. Then she tagged me!
I'm answering ten questions today about my own Next Big Thing.
Maya and the Daring Heist - book two of the Maya series.
Maya and the Crystal Skull was officially released in January 2012. I always planned to write a series of books based around the main character Maya and the crystal skulls. The idea for Maya and the Daring Heist came from reading about the black market trade in ancient artifacts, as well as my own purchase of a crystal skull over the internet.
This is a paranormal action/adventure for confident readers aged 8 and over.
Maya could be played by Willow Shields from The Hunger Games. Ethan could be played by Callan McAuliffe from I Am Number Four. Now for Maya's dad? Johnny Depp? Brad Pitt? I'm not sure. Maybe Kiefer Sutherland.
A birthday present for Maya's dad sets in motion unexpected events - smugglers, the black market - and Maya's life is in jeopardy again!
I'm not sure yet. I have a few irons in the fire, so we'll have to wait and see.
Before I started writing I had a goal to write 1,000 words a day, which meant I'd write this 40,000 word manuscript in 40 days. In reality, I finished the first draft in around 45 days.
I don't know of any others quite like Maya and the Crystal Skull or Maya and the Daring Heist.
I was inspired to write Maya and the Daring Heist because it's a sequel to Maya and the Crystal Skull. I was inspired to write this series because it involves many of my favorite interests, such as psychic mediums, the ancient Maya, the legend of the crystal skulls, and quantum physics. I love these subjects and enjoy threading them throughout my stories.
When I wrote Maya and the Crystal Skull I had to do a lot of research about psychic mediums and spirituality. By the time I wrote Maya and the Daring Heist I was writing from my own experience. In November 2010, I had my first experience as a medium. I saw the spirit of a friend's deceased husband. Trust me, no one was more surprised than me! Since November 2010, I've had many fantastic experiences as a psychic medium. I wonder if readers will notice this difference between Maya and the Crystal Skull and Maya and the Daring Heist.
I tagged Wendy Orr for next week and so did Corinne Fenton. Wendy opened Corinne's email first and accepted her offer, then apologized to me. Alas!
Please visit the following blogs to follow the game around the world… Where will it end?
Please check back here to see if anyone else has been tagged for 16/1/2013.
Fingers crossed for the Next Big Thing!


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A young Alabama vet student was recently arrested for allegedly pulling off one of the sickest scams imaginable. She took older horses from their owners, promising that they would live out the rest of their lives in a sanctuary, but later sold them to be slaughtered.
24-year-old Fallon Blackwood used her educational background as a veterinary student to gain the trust of horse owners who could no longer take care of their older animals. She told several of her victims that she owned an 18-acre farm in Boaz, Alabama, where she could look after the elderly horses, but only if they willingly placed them in her care, as she didn't have the money to buy them. After taking the horses off their owners' hands, Blackwood allegedly sold them to kill-buyers to be shipped to Mexican slaughterhouses. The third-year vet student is believed to be responsible for the disappearance of nearly 50 horses.
Rudolph placed a horse named Cocoa and a mini-mule called Tibby in Fallon Blackwood's care with the understanding that she would retrieve them after she moved to Florida. She was comforted by the fact that Blackwood was a student at the Tuskegee College of Veterinary Medicine, and claims she would have never given up her animals, had she not been fooled by her education.
Lindsay Rosentrater, another victim of Blackwood's deceit, gave up her horse Willie in January 2018. She had become pregnant and her husband was not able to take care of Willie either, so she was forced to find other arrangements. When Blackwood came knocking saying she'd be willing to take him as a companion for her elderly barrel racing horse, it sounded almost too good to be true. Willie was going to live out the rest of his days in peace, with other horses.
Mrs Rosentrater agreed to give Willie up, under the condition that if the arrangement didn't work out she would get him back. Sadly, she never saw Willie again. The horse's former owner grew suspicious after she repeatedly asked Fallon Blackwood for pictures of Willie at his new home, but the vet student refused. She eventually created a Facebook group called "Finding Willie" which was soon flooded with concerned horse owners sharing similar stories, all involving Blackwood.


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Part One: Simon St. Laurent
In today's episode, I'll be talking with Simon St. Laurent, senior editor at O'Reilly and veteran web developer.
HyperCard
@simonstl (Simon on Twitter)
Crockford's JavaScript the Good Parts
"ES2015"
"Greenfield project"
Isomorphic Development (in Ruby) - Developer Tea interview with Ryan Stout
NWJS
Nodebots
Tessel
Unix philosophy
Elixir (language)
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Hey everyone and welcome to Developer Tea. My name is Jonathan Cutrell and in today's episode I speak with senior editor at O'Reilly Media Simon St. Laurent. Today's episode is sponsored by Hired. If you are a designer or a developer and you're looking for a job and you don't know where to start, I recommend you try out Hired.com. We will talk more about what Hired has to offer to Developer Tealisteners especially. Here on in today's episode, but first I'm excited to get into this discussion with Simon. Simon has been doing web development for far longer than I have and in fact has been doing it basically since before web development was even a thing. He's been writing HTML since before HTML was in a browser so I'm really excited to talk to somebody who has that much experience and I hope you will enjoy this episode as well. If you do want to hear the second part and you don't want to forget it, go ahead and subscribe to the show in whatever podcasting app that you use. Now let's get straight into the interview with Simon St. Laurent. Welcome to the show Simon. Great to be here. I'm excited to talk to you because you have been doing web development or something development oriented for how long now? Since 1994 really I had kind of an awkward transition from HyperCard. Can you talk a little bit about what you do now but also that experience? Yeah, sure. I worked for a Riley Media. We've been best known as a publishing company. Historically we did books. Now we're doing a lot of conferences, online training, videos, things like that. I like to joke that I started in publishing at Kinkos Copies. That was a while ago. There were still many good memories of single-sided and double-sided. But basically at the time I was starting out of college I was lucky because the web was just getting started. I would work at Kinkos by day and then I would go home and I was doing hypertext stuff. I had HyperCard at that point and then I started converting things over to the web as it became clear that this was for real and this was going to change everything. I spent a lot of time on the XML side of the world. I wrote some books on XML. I spent a lot of time thinking about what Markup means is something separate from programming. But pretty much since 2006 or 2007, my focus at Riley and my focus technologically generally has been on how to make better things on the web. Great. So can you kind of explain for those of us who weren't working in the web at that point, can you tell us what hypercard actually is? Oh yeah, sorry. So hypercard was basically a way of creating stuff that today would be web pages but it was a stack of cards instead and then you wrote a lot of code to connect the cards. Unlike physical cards. They looked like physical index cards but they were on your screen. Okay. So you had a stack of cards and you could either go backwards and forwards through the stack or you could write code that navigated through the stack and the stuff that got me excited was writing code that navigated through the stack. So I could create apps where I would write a whole bunch of different cards with different titles and then the text would magically link on the titles. Oh wow. Yeah, at the time it was like new and revolutionary. And now it's like, why would you do hypertext that way? Isn't that like an encyclopedia? But you know, that's useful. That's fantastic. So coming from hypercard, the internet is such a big jump from that, isn't it? Well, it's moving from one computer to the whole network of computers. Whenever I was doing hypercard, I was building stuff in my own little space. It's kind of like I was building sites that only had that site and could not imagine anything else. Wow. Yeah. It's such a interesting history because a lot of people who work on the web now, we couldn't imagine it without all the amazing tools that we have. Even going from a world where C-assets didn't exist to this brand new amazing thing that allows you to style stuff across multiple pages, that must have been a surreal experience. Well, I'd spent a lot of years explaining to graphic designers what they couldn't do in HTML. So having C-assets was a pretty major relief that way. But even when people are getting started on the web these days, it's easy just to jump into a tool and do whatever. I still tend to encourage people to spend some time in HTML first, build a few things, and yes, they won't look quite like you expect them to. But they will actually magically open on mobile phones incredibly quickly as I discovered by accident the other day. So there is still value in that kind of early experience. But it's a different kind of thing. It's just now it's like kind of punk rock minimalist. And back then it was, this is awesome and new and huge. So that's great. So I want to talk to you about kind of the current state of the web now. You mentioned that you work at O'Reilly and the listeners of the show, you should know that Simon has been kind enough and O'Reilly has been kind enough to exchange a ticket for me to attend Fluent, which is next month. Fluent is about the current state of the web and perhaps a better way of saying it is, Fluent is about learning the tools that allow you to participate with the current state of the web. Simon, can you talk a little bit so on this podcast I aim to apply the discussion to the broader software development community. But it is my experience that most, if not all modern developers working on distributed software systems, likely are working with some level of hypertext technology, if not working with all of the browser technologies. So would you agree that the web is in many ways kind of the common linking ground for most modern developers? Yeah, but I think the web is both where people get started and where people build for a large audience. We had, we definitely had a burst of native applications, Android iOS, that did a lot of the same kind of networked connections that the web has done. I don't think those are going away any time soon, but the web certainly persists, continues and grows. The Fluent we're trying to show not just the set of tools, the JavaScript, the HTML, the CSS, the various deployments and the millions of choices of frameworks react in Angular are probably the biggest ones this year. But how they all fit together, it's not that hard to get started with something in isolation, but knowing how to choose among them, figuring out what the vocabulary is for asking questions about them. And then, you know, just a, there's always a heavy dose of the how to really do things that helps you get started. The web, you know, I was just talking about kind of punk rock HTML. I was lucky though, because it was so much simpler. I talk a lot about how we've had a Cambrian explosion in the JavaScript world pretty much over the last five or six years. If JavaScript got legitimized as a programming language in a lot of ways, with Doug Crockford really pushing JavaScript to good parts and functional programmers realizing this could be awesome. And since then, it's been pretty much constant churned and keeping up with that, keeping up with the ever evolving opinions about what's the best way to use the languages, what's the best way to build an app, it's vast. Yeah. Well, I mean, it seems like just two or three years ago, well, I guess it probably was two or three years ago. If you were kind of an expert in backbone, then you were good to go, right? That was the forefront leading technology and everybody was looking for people with 10 years of experience in backbone. But now, I mean, like you said, churn, it's constantly something new coming out or at least a revised version of that old tool, right? So if you knew how to write React code even a year ago, I guess React is over a year old, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. If you knew how to write React code a year ago, first of all, React has changed a lot in even in one year. But secondly, now you need to also know how to write it with ES6 syntax, right? Like with Lets instead of Vars, for example. Yeah, ES6 is a bigger change than the JavaScript world has seen in a very long time. I was really curious to see how quickly people would pick it up. But I've been, it's gone way faster than I expected. I mean, clearly not everybody is, but it's a lot easier for people who want to be on the cutting edge to use ES6 today. You know, tools like Babel really make it easier. That's really different from kind of my past web experience where you would see things emerge and then we'd all be waiting for a while for it to actually surface in the tool set. Yeah, I can agree with that. I think a lot of the stuff that ES6 brings is stuff that you, if you have worked with JavaScript sufficiently, you kind of wish it was there before anyway. And you don't necessarily know the particulars of the syntax that you wish for, but you wish that you could do a lot of the things that ES6 provides for you to be able to do. Yeah, and it seems like ES7 is going to continue that or whatever. They're calling it by the years now. It's all kind of complicated. Yeah, ES 2016. Right. But it's going to be much smaller. So I think we've had kind of the big burst and that's that part of settling for a while. Something else that I keep having to remind myself of though is that as much as we see like constant churn on backbone to angular and react and ES6. Most of the web is still when you look at what people are actually using like 70% of what's out there is still jQuery. And there are a fair number of sites that aren't using any frameworks at all. There are a fair number of people who advocate not using any frameworks at all. Though admittedly backbone seems to be the one that sneaks in even among the minimalists. There are still people using backbone just not a lot of them. It is a choice. You can look at your projects and decide do I want the all in one package that angular offers? Do I want the view centric approach that react offers and then I have to write some other code to supplement that? There are projects where just sticking with jQuery actually makes sense. There are other projects where you need the latest greatest most insane performance and UI maximization you can possibly squeeze out of a device. The thing that's amazing about the web is that it can have all of these different people working on different priorities and still basically working the same tool set and mostly be able to work with each other. Yeah, it is an amazing landscape of products because we shouldn't look at it like there is one way to build websites right there. There isn't just one way. There are many ways, many different tool sets, many different priorities, right? All of these things are competing and I recommend that if you ever hear anybody say this is how you build a website that you take a step back and you think a little bit deeper about the problem that you're solving because if somebody tells you well, you absolutely need to be worried about x, y and z. If that doesn't match the problem that you're solving, I would at least investigate a little bit further about why there are different priorities for every project and it's easy for somebody who has been doing this for a while and they're teaching how to do it. It's easy for them to kind of label their way as the way. I'm guilty of this. Pretty much anybody with a blog that talks about creating websites is guilty of this, right? This is the best way to do it. The reality is that there are thousands of good ways to do it. Well, maybe hundreds of good ways to do it. Let's hope it's hundreds because if it's thousands, that's what we're going to deal with. Sure. Sure. There are great micro frameworks that work perfectly fine for exactly a specific project, right? Then there's big, massive frameworks that work great for other projects and it would be a misnomer to say that you should be using the small framework on something that the big framework does better. Right. But there may be times when you have specific performance issues or you're dealing with devices that can't actually do as much or have a smaller screen. It's always a question of what the specific situation needs and more than that, how many situations you need to cover. Sure. Perhaps always been flexible, but frequently we put in design models that break it. All of those lovely fixed CSS layouts that looked great on a desktop computer were tiny and terrible on mobile phones. Yeah. So we had to tear everything down and start over. The punk rockers who were using just PlayDust.html didn't have these problems. It all worked fine. But most people aren't like that. There's a set of priorities that you need to establish at the beginning of a project or both change over the course of the project. But how much is performance going to matter to you? How much is a particular design going to matter? The classic is the designer creating stuff in Photoshop and sending it over to the designers and saying, make this pixel perfect across every browser. Why would you do that? Perhaps the biggest cost is in development time. Yes. Yes. You can take something that would have been really simple and make it incredibly difficult. It's kind of funny because a lot of the people I've spoken to who really bounced off the web, it is like those graphic designers I was talking to in the early days frequently. They have visions of something precise that they want to create. You can create great things, but you have to adapt to the medium. It isn't always easy for people. I have experienced this on many occasions. It's actually easier for people to not adapt to that new space. If you encounter a designer who came from a print background, for example, they're going to have an easier time designing something that looks like print on the web. That's because they're naturally experienced with designing for the web. They don't have the fluid browser size in mind, for example. A lot of the time, they aren't going to be thinking about the concerns that the developer starts at the very beginning of the project thinking about. It's important, especially as developers, to be aware of that number one and number two, to be able to communicate what those differences are when you are collaborating with that designer. I think it would help Developer Too to work with multiple environments and multiple media. On the design side, some of the most fun conversations I've had were with designers who had done, sure they had done print, but they'd also designed, say, for textiles or they had designed stage. Interesting. In all of those circumstances, you have different constraints and changing constraints. Even in print, you can do one designer. It has to work across a variety of different print contexts. That can be a recipe for madness. A lot of developers have a preferred toolset. I think, actually, at this point, most developers I talk with on the web have more than one toolset programming languages or programming contexts. It is now possible for the first time since the early server side JS went away for people to really only program in JavaScript and not think about other programming languages. Even as they cross the client, the server, Raspberry Pi devices running underwater hardware. That's possible. But even if it's possible, I tend to find people who've worked in multiple contexts have a real advantage in sizing up problems, figuring out how best to handle them. Sure. I want to take a moment and pause and say, for those of you who are listening to this, and you hear us talking about frameworks and you hear us talking about libraries and tools and we're using a bunch of acronyms. If this seems daunting to you, you're not alone. There are plenty of people who are also listening to this. You aren't the only one who is listening to this that is confused or feeling a little bit like your underwater. That is very much so kind of a picture of what this industry feels like for most of us. There is something new every single day to learn. You're never going to catch up and if you want to be a part of the industry, you're going to feel like you're never catching up. You have to learn to be at peace with not ever being fully caught up. Would you agree with that Simon? Yeah. I think part of the joy actually is that for beginners, the pathways are maybe a little bit clearer. Even if the strange, what is HTML and CSS in JavaScript? Does that play about coffee? I don't know. There is that initial language barrier. The place where it gets especially crazy is if you're trying to keep up with the latest and greatest, which changes daily, weekly on a quiet week. I talk with a number of people who are, I guess I'll just call them hot shot programmers and they're always chasing after the next thing. They'll build a project or two and then they'll try something different and then they'll build a project or two. Then I talk with people, well, okay. One of them was still maintaining cobalt applications. There are people dealing with really old stuff, but there are a lot of people also, though, who are looking for something more stable. The classic story of Enterprise is that we really want it to work and efficiently and do all of these things. It's really got to be stable or we're not going to touch it. These work in 10 years from now. And so finding those kinds of trade-offs, I think the industry is trying to provide lots of things for everybody. But most of everybody is looking to find the thing that will work for them for a long time. Some people have the luxury of always a new Greenfield project. Some agency and developers who are always building new things for clients can try out the latest and greatest. And then someone else gets to maintain it. Isn't that awesome? But for those who get to maintain things, it's usually a little more cautious. And they have, maybe even, they might know the acronyms, but the churn can be daunting too. And that's probably important, an important distinction for those of you who are just now coming into this field. There are many different types of businesses where you could work as a web developer. You just mentioned agencies, Simon. There's agencies and then there's well-established companies and then there's startups. In an agency environment, you do very often get a chance to work in something kind of Greenfield. The trade-off there that I've experienced at least working in that kind of environment is that very often you don't really get to go super deep into any one thing, right? You're building something from the ground up and then you stop and then you start back over again. In an environment like a startup or well-established company, you may be working on one very small narrow problem for a significant amount of time in developing and redeveloping and refining your knowledge about that specific problem over and over and over. So that's kind of the benefits and trade-offs of both sides of that coin. There are some people who get to know everything because they're a one person shop and that's extra funding. Oh yeah. And that's the freelance model, isn't it? Pretty much. There's still a fair number of one person web development places, even on a small scale. Some are consulting and have made it. But there are a lot of people who's sort of initial programming businesses more or less web work. So lots of possibilities. Sure. Today's episode of Developer Tea is sponsored by hired.com. 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To go and check it out, it's hired.com slash Developer Tea and of course that link will be in the show notes as spec.fm. Thanks again to hired for sponsoring Developer Tea. So I want to talk about one more thing about the state of the web. Specifically, what things are you really excited about in the near future and the current state? What things are really exciting to you? Well, I feel like we've finally gotten to a especially interesting place on graphics. I mentioned Photoshop earlier in kind of the curse of the pixel perfect. But when you step back from using Photoshop for layout and start looking at what you can do with graphics, programmers now have Canvas and WebGL. The Sdesiders are doing a lot with SVG. Sometimes it's creating things that Adobe Illustrator and exporting them. SVG is getting a lot of use as an animation space as a way to enhance what we could always do with HTML. And it doesn't require the same level of programming knowledge. There's a lot of the other ways to do this. Canvas is straight JavaScript. WebGL, you can kind of wrap in a library, but it's still really build this, then draw that, then move this. SVG is like graphics done in HTML where you kind of say this thing goes here. If you want to do really fancy curves, it can start looking like a programming language, though. So it has its own complexity. But graphics, like overall, seem to me like they're achieving what we've been talking about and wanting for a long time. On a similar note, animation in all different kinds of forms, some of it has to do with graphics, some of it just has to do with like the little touches that a user interface that tell you you've actually clicked on that thing and everything's going to be all right. There's a lot you can do now that was sort of pioneered in JavaScript. It has moved to CSS where it can take advantage of hardware acceleration, so it tends to be a lot faster. Those things feel to me like they're really coming around. There are a lot of bigger questions where I feel like we're still experimenting, which aren't really things like the relationship between what happens in the browser or what happens on the server. The model that I worked with for years was that like all the program logic was on the server and the browser was basically the window to look into things. As HX came in, as frameworks have gotten more and more sophisticated, as developers have realized just how much you can do with a really basic server setup, a lot of logic has moved to the client. So all that programming code that used to live on the server now gets sent to the browser to be used, which is great because it saves you like server processing cycles and you can borrow other people's computers and things. I just mean that you're using the user's computer, not that you're really borrowing somebody who didn't expect it. You're not creating a server farm in your basement. Hopefully not. Maybe you're mining Bitcoin or something. No, that's not to do that. At the same time, I feel like we're just figuring out a lot of the questions around building APIs interfaces from the clients to the servers. We have now these models. They're called isomorphic or universal or a fronty backy or I can't remember. There are at least two more names for it. But basically, since you're writing code in the browser anyway and it's JavaScript and we now have node and you can run JavaScript really easily on the server, you can decide your server can basically decide whether or not to do the JavaScript processing at the server or on the client, which can make a big difference if you're sending pages to a not very smart phone that can display stuff but doesn't have a lot of power to do much with it or if you've got constrained bandwidth issues or if there are some cases I've heard where it's a security thing. If somebody is in your own corporate network, you don't mind sending all the logic to them if they're outside, you want to send them as little as you possibly can. There are all of these new architectures appearing really over the last, we started with web services around 2000 but really unlike the last five years, it's gotten a lot more intricate. I'm very fond of what are commonly called REST APIs. It doesn't mean that you or your program get to go to sleep. It's more about having a constrained set of actions you can take on a wide variety of data types. Rails really made a very simple version of the REST story popular but we're really getting into the many ways you can use it. That stuff is growing, experimenting, exploding, tying a lot of the web stuff to the cloud in new ways. It's perpetual ferment. The thing that's kind of nice about that stuff is if you're doing a small project, you don't really have to think about it very much. If you're doing a large project, it can get really deep but as long as you're willing to constrain your experiments so that they sort of operate only in places where you're comfortable trying new things, you don't always have to be on the cutting edge with everything. Yeah, I agree with that. I think learning one piece at a time, you may feel like you need to learn a whole new stack all at once. I felt that pressure before myself but learning one tool to integrate into your existing stack and replacing one thing at a time with a new interesting or more powerful version of the thing that you had before. That is a way of going about adopting new tools. You see this, actually, if you follow a single project, you'll see this in practice. There are really simple things that you expect them to do with that project. I'm thinking of a couple of open source projects right now in my mind. You expected them to have done that well in advance but even with something like a CSS framework, it takes a lot of testing and a lot of deliberation on how do we name things, for example. What naming structure should we use for our classes? Should we have an extra, extra large breakpoint or not? Should we provide support for Flexbox or not? A lot of this stuff depends on many different variables. Don't feel like you have to adopt an entire new stack all at once. You're going to run into a lot of problems that you've never encountered before and you're not going to know which tool that problem is coming from most likely. We're getting better at combining things into stacks. I think NPM in particular has got a lot of people excited about. I can download all of these components and I can mix and match and they'll all talk to each other and everything will be great until one of them has a security issue but we'll hope that doesn't happen. Part of the joy is that it has become a lot easier to switch things in and out over time. Part of the complication is that we've got really excited about this. I now see people creating 27 stage workflows. I'm sure there's bigger than that. That was the last large number that I heard where they're bringing in all of these different pieces. They're writing an ES6 so that has to be compiled to ES5. They're processing their sass into CSS. You can really go to town with workflow these days and custom craft something that fits exactly what you want. Then switch things in and out of it whenever seems convenient to you. Part of the joy of this is that a lot of us are not just working by ourselves. We need to be able to share these things with other people. That tends to be where the things break down. Technically we can make them work but explaining them to other people gets harder. It's a time when we're really trying out all of these new possibilities, a lot of which honestly node created for us. We haven't settled yet on what really is the best idea here. The best set of ideas for that matter. Yes. I think you're right. I think node, at least some of the concepts that node has introduced at the very least, but also the power of JavaScript period, has brought along with it a lot of new ways of thinking about the same problems. Yes. Node really fascinates me. I keep running into places where JavaScript is driving things and I just didn't expect it. A lot of desktop application development like on Windows and Mac these days is done with tools like NWJS which lets you basically use JavaScript and web technologies to code or decromy in Windows. There is a lot of stuff going on. I mentioned Raspberry Pi earlier but there are also things like Tessle that are boards that are really built with JavaScript development in mind. The whole node bot's movement is pretty astonishing too. Node really changed the rules. When I first saw it, I thought of it as a, hey, this is a server side framework in JavaScript. That's a cool idea. But then node really... It's a little more than that, isn't it? It's a little more than that. It's getting everywhere and into everything and mostly that's good. I think one of the biggest things that node brings... Well, in my opinion, one of the most important things that it brings along with it is the package manager. We've had similar package managers in the past. Probably the most comparable would be gym files and Ruby Gems. But node brings this package manager concept to the front end and the back end all in the same thing. That's unprecedented in some ways. Yeah, I had friends who kept using Pearl for years because C-Pan had such an amazing list of modules. They weren't really fond of Pearl but they had a better library in a lot of ways. JavaScript had a very tightly shared library in the browser but it really wasn't until node hit that we started having not just, here's a framework or maybe I'll mix these two libraries. I'll be really daring. But you really can assemble. It's really like the unique small pieces loosely joined. I don't know if people will know like unique shell scripting and pipe stuff but the output of one process goes to the next one and you can really wire together all kinds of logic to solve your particular problem very precisely. Node has NPM, Node, various other package managers. They've really brought this to the JavaScript world and given the web, well not everyone's using JavaScript. Obviously, lots of people are still using PHP and Rails and Java and other things. NPM has definitely given the JavaScript side of the web a common packaging system. Sure. These package managers are kind of maturing. All of the other ones are also maturing with NPM. Thanks to I think some of the influence that NPM has had on development environments. Composer and also, Ruby Gems has become better over time as well. There are a lot of interesting and powerful things that the web is getting. There are package managers for virtually every language but this is like a package manager not for a language but for the whole stack and that's the difference. That's the main difference. It goes beyond JavaScript in particular so it's big. Super powerful stuff. Do you still use Bower by chance? No, actually I never used Bower. I stopped programming and then restarted programming and I missed Bower. I mostly missed Cronk too. Cronk was really interesting but when I came back it seemed like Gulp was the way. We've adopted Gulp at Whiteboard where I work and I love Gulp but there was a time, a very short period of time where Twitter bootstrapped and a few other front end tools were actually being built by a make file. Yes. I'm honestly surprised that there wasn't a step in the middle where somebody used Rake for that stuff but maybe somebody did. I don't know. Well, making a lot of ways is the grandparent of all of this stuff. I don't think make was the first at what it did but it was certainly the best distributed stuff. I hope we can all learn from makes ups and downs and make things smoother. Sure. Again, if you're listening to this and you're like, what is Rake? What are these things? These are all just single tools that you can very easily Google. Of course, we'll have links to them in the show notes as well but they all have their own purposes and they all have a history and actually make is still used every single day. You've probably used it if you've installed anything on your command line unless you are part of the generation now that specifically only uses brew which is another powerful package management tool for OS X. Yes. Somewhere or another in your systems there is a package manager lurking. At least one. Yes. Probably multiple versions if you are unlucky. Yes. Great. Simon, you said you're excited about rest. You're excited about MPM and all of these tools kind of maturing to the point where now we can start refining them further and doing more powerful integrated things. Does that sum it up pretty well? I'm hoping we can take the last five to ten years of rapid innovation and figure out what the best parts of it were. I see best practices really starting to emerge. There are different practices for different practices. People are creating different kinds of things. But I'm not going to say we're achieving stability. I think we have achieved a bit of fatigue and maybe that will lead to stability. But on the package manager front, I think we're evolving a common way of doing things even when we're not using the same tools. On the language front, I think the big burst of ES6 changes behind us. On the frameworks front, I think we've probably still got a lot of years to go before we really decide what we want. But that's okay. Yeah, I agree. I agree. I'm told to the idea that we will eventually, in my opinion, we're going to reject the notion of purely isomorphic. I have my reasons why. But I think that we will recognize that different languages are designed for different things. But I don't know. That's all guessing. I corrupted myself a few years ago. I was editing some books that involved Erlang and I wanted to play with it. I wasn't up writing a book on it, not in Elixir. So I went into the deep functional programming end of the pool. Coming back has been really difficult. As much as I love the vision of JavaScript on both the client and the server, and node is amazing, the next time I have to really write some server code, I think I'm going to have to take Elixir for a real spin. It does different things. It makes me think different ways. I don't think it's going to be just the simple one environment for everything. I'm totally excited about some of the things Iomorphic lets you do. I think there are cases where that's more important than the scalability and stability that you get from some of the other language models. But it's eventually you'll have to make a trade-off. Yeah, absolutely. That's really what it comes down to. There's always going to be trade-offs in different directions. You could use a general purpose programming language for everything. That's what I think is going to be the downfall of a lot of the approaches to using JavaScript. I think people are going to start treating it like a way of setting variables and reading those variables and then creating functions and that's it. I don't think that adequately taps into what JavaScript is best at. And also ignores what some other languages are better at than JavaScript is. Yeah, I would love JavaScript to have lightweight disposable processes, but I don't see that coming in my lifetime. Sure. We'll see how it goes. Yeah. Thank you for listening to the first part of my interview with Simon St. Laurent. Of course, if you don't want to miss out on the second part of the interview, make sure you subscribe in whatever podcasting app that you use. By the way, if you have an Apple TV, Apple just now released the podcast app on the Apple TV update. So make sure you update your Apple TV and subscribe to Developer Teathere. So you can listen to me in your living room. Thank you again for listening to this show. Make you too hired for sponsoring Developer Tea. If you're a designer or a developer and you're looking for a job, then you have nothing to lose. Go and check out hire.com. It's totally free for you. And if you end up getting a job through hired, you get a $2,000 bonus right off the bat. So go and check it out hire.com slash Developer Tea. 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Forgotten Kenilworth war heroes will finally be added to town's memorial
Three of the six men to be added to Kenilworth's war memorial. From left: Lance Corporal William Hancox, Driver Frank Thake, and Corporal Timothy Foley.
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Six forgotten men from Kenilworth who were killed in the First World War will finally be added to the town's war memorial, 100 years after the end of the conflict.
The names of Thomas William Dilworth, Timothy Laurence Foley, William Jonathan Hancox, William Hubbard, Frank Bernard Thake and John William Woodfield will now be added to the memorial in Abbey Fields thanks to extensive research by Kenilworth historian Susan Tall.
She has been researching the memorial for the last 20 years, and published a book entitled 'Kenilworth and the Great War' in 2004 along with Betty Sunley.
Susan said: "I always knew there were people that had been left off.
"I had relatives (of the men) contact me saying 'why isn't my grandfather on it?' I made a list of around 50 men, before gradually getting the list down to six men who, for various reasons, were left off the memorial."
Susan said many men originally from Kenilworth had been left off the memorial for several reasons, most commonly because the family had moved away from Kenilworth before the war began.
But the six men now being added to the memorial had stronger connections to Kenilworth than others.
For example, William Hancox, a Lance Corporal in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was reportedly the first man from Kenilworth to be killed in the First World War. Incredibly, his name was not added to the memorial after the war.
And Susan's research indicated it was a mystery why his name was not on the memorial.
The other five men all had good reasons to be included on the memorial, such as strong familial ties to the town or not being on any other memorials despite their Kenilworth connections.
Susan added: "It is very important for us in Kenilworth to remember these men, particularly with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice this year. They were part of our town and need to be remembered generation by generation for their sacrifice."
On Saturday November 3, relatives of the six men will head to memorial for a small ceremony to reveal the names.
Cllr George Illingworth, chairman of the Kenilworth branch of the Royal British Legion, said although the event will obviously be in a public place, he hoped people would respect the privacy of the people invited.
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He added: "We've invited the families of the six men to the memorial, and this is for the benefit of the them."
Although several relatives will be going, L-Cpl Hancox will have 17 members of his family turning up on the day, including his great-grandson.
The six men
Pte Thomas Dillworth - born 1893, died of wounds in June 1915. Lived in Rosemary Hill.
Cpl Timothy Foley - born 1891, killed in action in October 1914. mother lived in School Lane.
L-Cpl William Hancox - born 1887, killed in action in September 1914. Father lived in Windy Arbour.
Pte William Hubbard - born 1861, died in February 1919. lived in albion street.
Dvr Frank Thake - birth date unknown, died in March 1921. Married Katherine from Fieldgate Lane.
CSM John Woodfield - born 1891, died March 1921. lived in Arthur Street.