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And programmers, as I quote Larry Constantine in my book, programmers are programmers because they like to code -- given a choice between learning someone else's code and just sitting down and writing their own, they will always do the latter. And the programmer who says, it will be faster for me to write it, rather than to learn it, is usually correct. Except that what he will write, most likely, is something that will work but will not have its rough edges worked out, will not have the benefits of a piece of software that has actually been used for a few years, where the bugs have been found and the users have given feedback and have helped you figure out where the problems are. So what they will often be handing you at the end of that I-can-do-it-faster-myself thing is something that works, but that is kind of a mess in certain ways. Whereas the thing that you were going to pull off the shelf, maybe it will take the programmers a while to learn it, but once they learn it enough to hook it up to this project you are creating, what they are hooking up will probably have a lot fewer problems.

Software is hard | Salon Books

Chris Jurney
Senior Programmer, THQ
Chris is a Senior Programmer at Kaos Studios in New York where he is working on AI for Frontlines: Fuel of War. Prior to Kaos, he worked at Relic Entertainment, where he was responsible for pathfinding and AI on the award-winning RTS, Company of Heroes. Before entering the games industry at Relic, Chris spent 5 years in Atlanta working on slot machines and military weapon simulators. He graduated from Georgia Tech with a BS in Computer Science. Chris maintains active membership in the furry community, organizing a monthly event in Philadelphia as Slidey the penguin.

At one point everyone was sure my brother was smarter than me. I was the 'creative one.' Well, I still am that. But I'm smarter than that fuck. Except my maths are weak. Gotta work on my maths.

WARNING: Lunesta does not cause sleep, but blog-walking.

Chris Jurney: Game Developers Conference 2007

Feb. 3, 2007 | One way to look at Salon co-founder Scott Rosenberg's new book, "Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software," is as an attempt to tell the story of a specific software development project -- the effort by industry legend Mitch Kapor and a band of ace programmers to create Chandler, a kind of turbo-powered personal information management program that would dazzle users with its ability to enhance their productivity.

Software is hard | Salon Books

I wants to go.

SIGGRAPH 2007 | The 34th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

Kick ass flow chart of the arrest process.

Arrest Process Flow Chart | Faslane 365

Neat multi-touchscreen user interfaces

YouTube - TED : Jeff Han (2006) Ideas Worth Sharing

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The Internet and related technologies are having a profound effect on social, economic and political institutions and processes worldwide -and this effect has consequences for democracies and democratic development. Examples abound of uses of the Internet in the democratic context from assisting in overthrowing or circumventing autocratic regimes to promoting advocacy, government transparency, and accountability in existing or emerging democracies. Citizens, politicians, civil servants, civil and non-governmental organizations, companies, institutions of all types, and large state and private sector bureaucracies are employing technologies and the Internet to communicate, provide and access information, and become more efficient-often resulting in enhanced and strengthened democratic processes and more effective governance. Strengthening and encouraging the use of such technologies in democratic development has thus become an imperative spanning a broad range programming areas for NDI.

In fact, everywhere that NDI works democracy practitioners and activists are using new technologies to improve their access to information across borders and issue areas, enhancing their efficiency and effectiveness by deploying a range of computer and ICT-related systems that support their work.

Increasingly, in response to the needs and requests of our partners NDI has been implementing programs with information and communications technology (ICT) components that support our programs, target democratic institutions and/or support democrats in general. In 2001 NDI created a new division within the Institute that formally incorporated ICTs as a tool for NDI's democracy programming.

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NDI - National Democratic Institute

Below are images of the first prototype for an actual end-user application I ever built.

When I founded my company, it was to make process flow software for attorneys. The product was called Hammurabi (and no, the Hammurabic code was not exceedingly complex compared to other law at the time, in fact it was a great simplification and clarification). The idea being that there is a limited amount of variation among most cases of the same type. The simplest example we used when the product was conceived was an eviction. There is a very deterministic set of things that happen in Georgia for an eviction to occur. We mapped them on a napkin.

The idea here was to provide a collaborative process flow for each type of case, in which the state of each case was defined in a map. Every stakeholder can monitor the progress of the case at all times, even clients. Once you initialized a case map for a new case, the maps automatically included template documents and forms for the next step in the case at each node, and could be modified to account for variations between cases. Each node in the map contained notes, documents (evidence, briefs, motions, etc.). MS Word is embedded in the UI, the documents are arranged the way attorneys think, the system tracks the work state and progress on each document, and times you as you work, so that we could take the guess work (fudging) out of legal billing.

The diamonds with ?'s in them are decision points, and clicking on them pulls up expert legal advice on what to do, etc. Again, editable. The nodes change color to indicate completion as you navigate the case map and approach resolution, which is indicated (if I remember correctly) by an emboldened outline to a node. The system was also to manage deadlines, contacts, calls, etc. Way too ambitious for a startup (me) without a track record, because it would have taken alot of people to get built. I also had no clue about writing a business plan at the time, so there was no way anyone would give me any money.

The system was supposed to make legal work more efficient, so that you could handle more clients and charge less. Whats more, billing would be more annotated, because what documents and phases of the case were worked on would be automatically in the bill. In retrospect, some unrealistic idealism was going on there.

There are several reasons the system would make lawyers more efficient. The first is that it takes time to recollect what state a particular case is in, because one attorney often handles dozens of cases, and even more that are dormant (and these would take even longer to remember). Whats more, one attorney is not the only person working on any given case. The state map and annotations allow each person working on the case to keep up to date with its progress, even if they haven't thought about it for weeks, months, years. The map presents a user with the most important thing to know: what to do next. ... [ Read More (0.6k in body) ]

Process Flow Software for Attorneys: Hammurabi