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Aug
28
2011

  • “This long-needed book is a great resource for Cocoa newcomers and veterans who want to get the why behind the what. The list of patterns gives historical perspective and answers many developer questions and the last three chapters–covering Core Data, AppKit, and Bindings–are a must-read; they reveal insights that might otherwise require hours of discussion with Apple engineers or access to source code.”
  • In most subjects we learn by acquiring a little bit of knowledge and, once that bit has been understood, we move on to the next little bit, until the bigger topic is understood. First we learn A then we learn B. Unfortunately, this method of learning does not work well with application frameworks such as Cocoa. These frameworks usually consist of a number of complex idea that are strongly interrelated.
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Aug
2
2011

  • The company has been heralded by design enthusiasts and the mainstream alike. In 2009 former Vice President Al Gore used to software to create the app version the book Our Choice, which Matas gave a talk about at TED in March. In 2011 the company won one of Apple’s lauded Design Awards for the same app.
Aug
24
2010

  • We first saw examples of companies harnessing the power of pull and talent management as a competitive advantage when we ventured to the geographic edges of China and India for research for Net Gain. There we saw entrepreneurial companies developing new approaches to talent development that harnessed loosely coupled business networks to provide scale without inertia. Observing this success led to another book and our tenet that the only sustainable edge in the future will come from accelerated capability building — creating the conditions to enable people to learn faster by working together.
  • One successful method we've observed (and, for John Seely Brown, participated in when he served as the head of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center) centers around communities of practice to drive learning and performance improvement. Once again, deep personal relationships were a key to driving capability building. In addition to those essential relationships, it's key that members of this community represent diverse backgrounds--critical for the creative tension that often arises from confronting different points of view. We've found through our years of research and writing that this mix greatly increases the potential for innovation.
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May
5
2010

  • While Mr. Palma didn't go into details, users of Google Editions would be able to read books from a web browser—meaning that the type of e-reader device wouldn't matter. The company also could build software to optimize reading on certain devices like an iPhone or iPad but hasn't announced any specific plans.
  • "This levels the retail playing field," said Evan Schnittman, vice president of global business development for Oxford University Press. "And as a publisher, what I like is that I won't have to think about audiences based on devices. This is an electronic product that consumers can get anywhere as long as they have a Google account."
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Apr
4
2010

  • I believe this is the future of digital publishing. Learn from open source. The idea of content lock down just makes no sense. Paper books don’t have DRM. You can share them, write on them, cut bits out for your scrapbook and so on. But imagine if you could do all that digitally…

     

    Why shouldn’t books be a little more like Wikipedia and a bit less like a copy-protected CD?

     

    It might seem like the editable, annotable, shareable book is a pirate’s charter, but publishers have little choice but to adapt.

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