Every fall there is an international conference in Seoul called RFID/USN Korea. RFID is a well-known acronym for Radio Frequencey Identification, but USN is not used in Western countries. Ok, you read the title, so you already know it means Ubiquitous Sensor Networks. Ubiquitous means “found everywhere”, doesn’t it? A sensor network found everywhere? The very idea comes with a creepy feeling of someone watching you wherever you go. Fortunately there is a better interpretation.
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If you create software for a living, chances are the only important question in your workplace is, “How quick can you get it out the door?” Unlike figure skating or diving, no points are awarded for good style. But once in a while it’s refreshing to think about how we work and the tools we use, like programming languages. I enjoyed reading In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming Pragmatism by Ronald P. Loui (complete reference below). It’s a high quality text with a lot of perspective.
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