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• James Ward: Sexier Software with Java and Flex

  A report on a meeting of the LJMG (London Java Meetup Group)

  15 July 2008, by Dave Snowdon
  On Friday 11th July, I attended a talk by James Ward at Adobe’s Regents Park offices in London. Free beer, soft drinks and pizza were provided and this ensured that there was a fairly healthy turnout.
  James started by showing two example Flex applications. The first was a demo to an insurance company to show how Flex could allow claim information to be entered more easily with the need for long textual descriptions replaced by annotated diagrams - for example detailing how the accident (...)
  
  
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  Review: The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo

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  19 May 2008, by Dave Snowdon
  The premise of this book is that otherwise good (or at least not actively bad) people can do bad, indeed evil things and that this can be explained by the situation in which the acts took place. In 1971 Zimbardo conducted the "Stanford prison experiment" in which students enacted the roles of prison guards and prisoners - the results so traumatised Zimbardo that supposedly he never gave the experiment the complete write-up he intended to. Many years later he acted as an expert witness for (...)