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Wil Shipley compiles the Delicious Library on Xcode 2.1. Wil Shipley: “It turns out all Apple has ready now are prototype machines, which are in plentiful supply here at WWDC. So, we went into their lab, opened up our source code for Delicious Library, clicked on the “compile for 10.4 only” option, and compiled our… Continue reading Wil Shipley compiles the Delicious Library on Xcode 2.1

Intel buys Apple next?. I've been waiting for Bob Cringely's reaction to the Apple/Intel deal and it didn't dissapoint. He see's the announcement of Apple's with Intel chips as the first public steps in a dance that will see Intel buying Apple in order to strike back at Microsoft whom it see's as an unfaithful… Continue reading Intel buys Apple next?

School shuts to ward off parents. The Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, seeking to head off the possible occupation of a closing Catholic school by angry parents, yesterday abruptly changed the locks, canceled graduation ceremonies for children as young as 3, and canceled the final two days of classes. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

When grades become meaningless. Over the weekend, the Washington Post had a column about grade inflation written by Alicia Shepard, a journalism professor at American University. The piece didn't approach the subject from the perspective of documenting the existence of grade inflation, though; that much was (and is) assumed to be true. Instead, Shepard relates… Continue reading When grades become meaningless

Audit finds Homeland Security IT not ready for disaster. IT operations within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are generally unprepared to recover from a major disaster, a government audit has found. The report, published Wednesday by the DHS Office of Inspector General, found that nearly 80 percent of the department's IT facilities lack… Continue reading Audit finds Homeland Security IT not ready for disaster

Knowledge Work as Craft. Jim McGee has fascinating post called “Apprenticing at Light Speed” about “knowledge work as craft” and the strains that the pace of change place on the apprenticeship model (we are all apprentices). The money quote (among many choices): “That leads me to my more fundamental concern about apprenticing our way to… Continue reading Knowledge Work as Craft

Lenn Pryor, formerly of Microsoft, newly of Skype, is a media hacker. [Scripting News]

CNet interviews Mark Spencer. CNet just posted an interview with Mark Spencer, the guy behind Asterisk. There aren’t a huge number of details, except for this one: [Digium] has something that eluded many a Silicon Valley wannabee during the bubble: real revenues. The company pulls in about $10 million a year Zing! Way to go… Continue reading CNet interviews Mark Spencer

A Decade of PHP. By nat 10 years ago to this day, Rasmus Lerdorf made the first release of PHP. It was slow to take off as this graph shows, but when the sleeping tiger awoke … Kapow! I had dinner last night with Rasmus, and he's still the sanguine man he always was. He… Continue reading A Decade of PHP

Cracking WEP in 10 minutes. Yesterday I started noticing referral traffic from myscreencast.com, a phpbb-based community site for finding and sharing screencasts. The most entertaining one I found is called Cracking WEP in 10 minutes. It was produced with Camtasia, but the action takes place in Whoppix, which describes itself thusly: Whoppix is a stand… Continue reading Cracking WEP in 10 minutes