Microformats -- small but working '...open standards specifications...' for a few important aspects of page design and construction.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Jef Poskazner has Spam Issues
Jef Poskazner gets about 1 million spams per day.
Jef Poskazner has no spam in his in box, because he has spam control on steroids.
Check it out.
Jef Poskazner has no spam in his in box, because he has spam control on steroids.
Check it out.
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Tim O'Reilly on Zorn, Macromedia, and Eclipse
Macromedia's announcement that their next generation enterprise Flash development tool, code-named Zorn, will be built on top of Eclipse, is a watershed moment both for Macromedia and for the open source movement. Macromedia's choice of Eclipse speaks volumes about the impact of open source on commercial software development -- and about Macromedia's commitment to making Flash into an essential platform for next-generation internet applications.O'Reilly adds a most interesting side note:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/06/nextgen_macrome.html
A side note that may be of interest: the project lead for Zorn is none other than Mark Anders, one of the two original developers of ASP.Net at Microsoft, and long-time program manager for the product. Mark told me that he joined Macromedia because he felt there was a need for a real enterprise level development tool for Flash. That it was the developer of a key Microsoft product who made the choice to build on Eclipse may be particularly telling.
Monday, June 06, 2005
Macromedia, Eclipse, Adobe, Flash
Lots of news on these fonts lately.
- Flash 8 announcements
include new Maelstrom platform, which is attracting some heavyweights like SAP. - Macromedia to use Eclipse as platform for next generation Flash development -- the probably means Flex support as well.
- Macromedia and Adobe are one, consolidating two powerhouses in real content and valuable, visually strong applications.
Friday, May 27, 2005
Orangevolt :: Ant Tasks
Orangevold Ant Tasks 1.3 has a bunch of stuff for os interoperation -- things like access to kde, windows hive, etc.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Mobile 3G/WiFi Router Project
Put briefly, it's a WWAN (Wireless Wide Area Network) router. In more human terms, it's a compact little box that gets data from cellular towers and re-shares it for multiple computers to use.--Tor AmundsonTo use it all you do is plug it in to the cigarette lighter of a car (or a 12v supply when at home). It automatically boots up and links in to Verizon's "Broadband Access" service, turning itself into an access point. Turn on your laptop, join the network and voila -- you're on the net! It's just like using a hotspot (such as they have at Starbucks and airports), but it goes anywhere you car goes.
Read all about it...
http://moro.fbrtech.com/~tora/EVDO/index.html
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Shuttle :: All Quiet on the Western Front
I just picked up & set up my new Shuttle. The scoop:
Price is a fraction of the price of a comporable, but bigger and louder, machine from HP or (ugh) Dell. Better yet, all the components are name components & the system is designed as a system -- its not a bucket holding whatever components happend to have the best prices the week I ordered.
Of course, I'd not be quite so happy if I'd not also picked up a nice Eizo monitor to complement the Shuttle.
- I wanted a quiet machine
- I wanted a 64-bit AMD processor
- I wanted a small machine
- I wanted a near portable, but something something without all the compromises of a laptop -- especially support for a good monitor & keyboard; something suiable for taking to a conference or vacation
- I wanted great graphics --- perhaps for a game, but more likely for...
- rapid photo processing
- Revit use
- CAD/CAM use
Price is a fraction of the price of a comporable, but bigger and louder, machine from HP or (ugh) Dell. Better yet, all the components are name components & the system is designed as a system -- its not a bucket holding whatever components happend to have the best prices the week I ordered.
Of course, I'd not be quite so happy if I'd not also picked up a nice Eizo monitor to complement the Shuttle.
Sunday, April 03, 2005
Hugunin speaks at PyCon DC 2005
PyCon DC 2005 was held March 23-25, 2005.
Jim Hugunin, one of the key developers of AspectJ, is now at Microsoft working on dynamic languages for the CLR. His blog indicates he is hiring: one developer. A little slower than I'd like!
Clearly it would be cool to have one solid implementation of a dynamic language that ran on both the CLR and JVM.
Just what is the status of Python on the JVM? Perhaps Jython is closer than I think. DevX has a nice article on unit testing Jython under eclipse, although some aspects of his development environment are a bit murky.
Where is the eclipse version of Hugunin?
Jim Hugunin, one of the key developers of AspectJ, is now at Microsoft working on dynamic languages for the CLR. His blog indicates he is hiring: one developer. A little slower than I'd like!
Clearly it would be cool to have one solid implementation of a dynamic language that ran on both the CLR and JVM.
Just what is the status of Python on the JVM? Perhaps Jython is closer than I think. DevX has a nice article on unit testing Jython under eclipse, although some aspects of his development environment are a bit murky.
Where is the eclipse version of Hugunin?
Friday, March 18, 2005
Shape Editor in GEF
While far to simple for a 'real' application, this shape editor could be the foundation of a nice user interface for many applications.
Perhaps more important, it illustrates how eclipse's GEF and EMF connect to each other and the power of eclipse's ecore for application development.
Perhaps more important, it illustrates how eclipse's GEF and EMF connect to each other and the power of eclipse's ecore for application development.
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
topic maps on xml.com
Lars Marius Garshol has a useful intro to Topic Maps on xml.com. Naturally one does not expect a Ruby implementation on xml.com! Get ready for the dreaded "" forrest.
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Monday, August 16, 2004
Wired News: Is AM Radio Harmful
Wired News: Is AM Radio Harmful: "Korean scientists have found that regions near AM radio-broadcasting towers had 70 percent more leukemia deaths than those without. The study to be published in an upcoming issue of the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health also found that cancer deaths were 29 percent higher near such transmitters. "
Korean scientists have found that regions near AM radio-broadcasting towers had 70 percent more leukemia deaths than those without.
The study, to be published in an upcoming issue of the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, also found that cancer deaths were 29 percent higher near such transmitters.
Two years ago an Italian study found death rates from leukemia increased dramatically for residents living within two miles of Vatican Radio's powerful array of transmitters in Rome.
Korean scientists have found that regions near AM radio-broadcasting towers had 70 percent more leukemia deaths than those without.
The study, to be published in an upcoming issue of the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, also found that cancer deaths were 29 percent higher near such transmitters.
Two years ago an Italian study found death rates from leukemia increased dramatically for residents living within two miles of Vatican Radio's powerful array of transmitters in Rome.
Sunday, August 15, 2004
Slashdot | Software for the Grass Roots
Slashdot | Software for the Grass Roots
CivicSpace
Also worth checking out is CivicSpace, the new incarnation of DeanSpace, currently being developed by Civic Space Labs [civicspacelabs.org]. They recently released a free (speech and beer) zipcode database [benstanfield.com], and are building in tools mimicing the "get local" aspects of the Dean campaign along with some really cool GOTV stuff.
forClark.com
Its still active and of the major campaign blogs it kicked major ass. It allowed all registered users to have their own blog, which became a very useful feature for individuals to post and retain community information.
It also didn't moderate (except for particularly egregious postings) by removal of posts. It used the moderation system from kuro5hin.org (and was based on scoop), which let the users moderate posts up and down. It worked pretty well, and the community kept a pretty fair hand in moderating.
When the Clark campaign was in full gear, it was the best of the major campaign blogs, by far. There was and is no comparison. And it formed a nice community that is still actively discussing things today.
Snipits from the slashdotters...
CivicSpace
Also worth checking out is CivicSpace, the new incarnation of DeanSpace, currently being developed by Civic Space Labs [civicspacelabs.org]. They recently released a free (speech and beer) zipcode database [benstanfield.com], and are building in tools mimicing the "get local" aspects of the Dean campaign along with some really cool GOTV stuff.
forClark.com
Its still active and of the major campaign blogs it kicked major ass. It allowed all registered users to have their own blog, which became a very useful feature for individuals to post and retain community information.
It also didn't moderate (except for particularly egregious postings) by removal of posts. It used the moderation system from kuro5hin.org (and was based on scoop), which let the users moderate posts up and down. It worked pretty well, and the community kept a pretty fair hand in moderating.
When the Clark campaign was in full gear, it was the best of the major campaign blogs, by far. There was and is no comparison. And it formed a nice community that is still actively discussing things today.
Thursday, August 12, 2004
gModeler :: Flash based UML modeling for JavaScript, ActionScript, & other ECMA-262 languages
gModeler.com
Pretty slick example of a flexible ui.
Pretty slick example of a flexible ui.
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