An introduction to “Blockchain, blueprint for a new economy” and author Melanie Swan

An introduction to “Blockchain, blueprint for a new economy” and author Melanie Swan

1. Overview Editorial
1. Although Melanie’s book was criticized by the technical side she appears to be a wide ranging technological futurist philosopher attempting to break in and provide voice to many edge technologies beyond just cybercurrency.
2. The world has room and need for the kind of voice that Melanie provides which is a contribution into the conversation of technology from the sociological aspect of the technology tapestry.
2. Author
1. Melanie Swan, Founder of the Institute for Blockchain Studies
1. http://www.melanieswan.com/bio.html
2. https://www.edge.org/memberbio/melanie_swan
3. https://www.linkedin.com/in/meswan/
3. Resources
1. https://www.slideshare.net/lablogga
2. https://twitter.com/LaBlogga
3. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/authors/melanie-swan/
4. Melanie Swan (Blockchain Studies): “You can compare the blockchain with electricity”
5. Biocurious health
6. https://kiteba.com/2015/03/14/melanie-swan-on-nanomedicine-and-cognitive-enhancement/
4. Reviews
1. GoodReads
1. There's some good overview and some good ideas in this book, but much of it is just a catalog of existing projects, and much of the rest is speculation (some of it outlandish). The book is brought back to Earth in the end with a sober look at the problems that Bitcoin faces ... but it's ultimately just another list.
2. Amazon
1. This is not a technical book on Blockchain or Bitcoin, but it is an excellent summary of the current technology supporting cryptocurrencies and an inspiring collection of ideas for how Blockchain could support a multiplicity of applications, in both the short term and the long run.
2. Copiously sourced with an extensive index. Puny appendices on basic crypto, but again that's not the point of this book; for that see Satoshi white papers and relevant RFCs.
5. Book
1. O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (February 8, 2015)
2. Amazon
1. https://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-Blueprint-Economy-Melanie-Swan/dp/1491920491/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1507470950&sr=8-1&keywords=blockchain+blueprint+for+a+new+economy
3. GoodReads
1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24714901-blockchain
4. WorldCat
1. http://www.worldcat.org/title/blockchain-blueprint-for-a-new-economy/oclc/898924255
5. Google Books
1. https://books.google.com/books?id=RHJmBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&q&f=false

T-Commerce

T-Commerce

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1. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Print-Poster-Vintage-Racing-Cars-Race-Car-Model-3-17x22-inch-/231284544572
1. Case study
1. http://www.amzur.com/case-studies/creating-next-generation-t-commerce-solutions-at-icuetv/

Digital Game Development

Digital Game Development

1. Seems like the space wars of software development.
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1. https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photos-nerd-pointing-up-to-blank-copy-space-papercut-image26804893
2. Recruiters
1. http://www.tekshapers.com/game-development/
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Finding Scott Guthrie

Where is Scott Guthrie now?

Scott Guthrie was a hugely successful product development manager who became a voice of Microsoft Web development. He seemed to reach widely and bring in everyone who was looking for leadership in leaning into the Microsoft web development products. Since he was promoted where is his social activity?

His blogs were excellent and become so popular over the years outlining nuts and bolts level of the Microsoft direction for web development. The post would be lengthy covering the forward step of the product in detail to quicken implementation. He would outline the approach at a high level however brought in the cadence of all the little challenging details and then returned to facilitate all manner of questions from the great variety of operational machine configurations.

Occasionally over the years I would retune into his blogs and they seemed to move somewhere new each time I looked for them. However this time I was unable to find a current blog.

Blogs at that time were still popular and worked well for his feature tours. However a survey for his current social effect looks like the social style for an executive vice president is all about twitter.

From a Bing search:

Missing for over a year

https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu

Same blog destination

http://scottgu.com/

His Facebook account has one note from earlier this year.

https://www.facebook.com/Scott-Gu-60792624775/

He is very active retweeting and up to date on Twitter

https://twitter.com/scottgu

Linkedin

https://www.linkedin.com/in/guthriescott/

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Guthrie

Microsoft executive page

https://news.microsoft.com/exec/scott-guthrie

The current Microsoft executive team

https://news.microsoft.com/leadership/

A comment to Scott Hanselman's blog

Subtitle: A casual and long chat towards the question of github for Microsoft

Today my first comment was made on the Scott Hanselman blog. As you know Scott is a popular social and technical voice of Microsoft and technology life.

Scott is in the "Paul Westerberg" school of writing meaning he writes like he talks which was the advice from Paul to songwriters. This brings a very organic and realism to his posts.

The influencers are influenced by their downstream feedback which is part of the great cycle of feedback in the community. It certainly would be interesting to get Scott's take as he is aware of the artistic and community light that lives in technology.

So to comment it was best to create a gravatar account which unfortunately didn't have a facebook login however required a wordpress account. I didn't mind creating a new blog on wordpress since I have been curious as to how the feature set compared with blogger where my occasional blogs are.

Here is my comment today:
The soft skills side of this post - "up on github" brings up codeplex and its demise. Considering many aspects - will .net based projects become a department within github in the way it was with its own site or will all projects just be part of a big graph like stones on a great beach with attributes? The list of languages available on github is impressive.

Reviewing your post on Sept 10th 2009 when the codeplex foundation was created so much of an open source perspective has increasingly found resonance with Microsoft. However for whatever that means - how will advanced search in itself on github be able to bring out the sense of a community continuity - the creativity and synergy of an awareness of the Microsoft language category that you are suggesting in this post - other than by way of the threads you have realized over time.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ExploringCQRSWithinTheBrighterNETOpenSourceProject.aspx

Parent technology of meta-languages

Out of interest, here is what I was trying to say/find

SGML is the root parent of html

XML is a cousin to html and nephew of SGML

http://webdesign.about.com/od/sgml/a/how-are-sgml-html-and-xml-related.htm

This one separate a database language into two parts: DDL like create, alter, etc.

And DML as in all the commands: select, update, etc

http://www.tomjewett.com/dbdesign/dbdesign.php?page=ddldml.php

What is the Test Pyramid?

What is the Test Pyramid?

1. One of the more well-known models in the test automation world is the Test Pyramid. Originally coined by Mike Cohn in 2009, the Test Pyramid is designed to show what a well-structured test suite looks like, based on the application layers being tested. It has gone through many variations over the years, but generally, it looks something like this:
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2. https://dzone.com/articles/a-test-pyramid-heresy