Steve Flinter’s blog

It looks like the iPhone is coming here at last. Now the real question is whether to buy or to wait for the 3G model.
Decisions, decisions, decisions…

The Sunday Business Post is carrying an article about the imminent departure of Maurice Treacy, the current director of the BIO directorate in SFI.
Maurice leaves SFI to take up a position as CEO in The National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT).

We’ve all heard of Freakonomics. Wired Magazine has just published an excellent article on freeconomics, entitled Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business.
Worth a read.

Online banking is great – I would certainly find financial management a complete pain in the ass without it.
That having been said, online banking, at least as offered by AIB, but probably most of the rest of the banking sector in Ireland and the rest of the world still falls a long way short, and [...]

Paul Graham nails it on the head with his latest essay:

I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems© that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.

Gabriella at the Interactive Design Centre in UL reports on a lecture given by Prof David Parnas of the Software Quality Research Lab. The lecture marks the end of Prof. Parnas’s time in Ireland, and we wish him well on his return to Canada.

boards.ie one of the grand old dames of the Irish internet space, is 10 years old this week. It was established by John Breslin, who now works at the SFI DERI.
Check out a nice interview and writeup in SiliconRepublic

Just came across this blog on engineering and computing research within DCU, which appears to be maintained by Raymond Kelly.
In it, it mentions the recently funded Next Generation Localisation CSET.

Isn’t this a little like the reviled PayPerPost?

I came across this article from Adam Howell by way of Daring Fireball. In essence, the post is saying that Pixish, the target of Adam’s ire, is a glorified forum for spec work, which apparently is a bad thing. To quote:

AIGA believes that doing speculative work seriously compromises the quality of work that [...]