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If, like me, you normally only hear Steve Jobs talking about the latest Apple product launches, you might like the Commencement Address he gave at Stanford recently.
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If, like me, you normally only hear Steve Jobs talking about the latest Apple product launches, you might like the Commencement Address he gave at Stanford recently.
(Update - that link is now dead. Try here.)
Thanks to the Creative Generalist blog for this and lots of other great stuff.The buzzphrase of the moment is AJAX. If you're a programmer, and you don't know about this, you will soon. It stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML, which is an increasingly common technique for updating parts of a web page from a server without having to update the whole thing.
It's being heavily used by Google in Gmail and Google Maps, for example. And I think it my duty to keep Status-Q readers up to date with such terms so that you can casually drop them into conversations around the water cooler. "Oh no, it isn't using Flash. It's based on AJAX..."