Hi all,
a thoroughly enjoyable evening.
A few links relevant to some of the discussions...
This was the book I mentioned "Hackers: Heroes Of The Computer
Revolution" http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/hackers
Also, Ralph, I think this was the book you were talking about? "Founders
At Work: Stories of StartUps Early Days" http://www.foundersatwork.com/
In a similar style, I recently read "Coders At Work", very insightful
http://www.codersatwork.com/
Re: IDEs and Eclipse, Eclipse currently has 1176 plugins, you can use it
for many programming languages beyond Java http://marketplace.eclipse.org/
ARM "Over 15 billion ARM based chips shipped to date"
http://www.arm.com/about/company-profile/index.php
Dot Dorset "Web, technology and digital technology" http://dotdorset.org/
Search engine Duck Duck Go http://duckduckgo.com/
Recent changes to Google search algorithms
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-more-high-quality-sites-in.html
and a nice infographic of historical changes they have made to their
algorithm
http://www.stateofsearch.com/google-search-algorithm-updates-2002-2011-infographic/
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