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Free Facsimiles of Sherlock Holmes Stories. Readers of this blog will note a certain minor obsession of mine with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s literary creation Sherlock Holmes. Stanford University is now publishing paper and PDF facsimiles of the original stories of Sherlock Holmes exactly as they appeared in Strand Magazine, over a century ago, complete… Continue reading Free Facsimiles of Sherlock Holmes Stories

Ruby the Rival: What does Java look like post-Rails?. O’Reilly’s ONJava.com had a chat with four prominent Java developers under the title of “Ruby the Rival”. Half of them has switched a big chunk of their development to Rails. James Duncan Davidson notes about the maintainability of Rails applications and the size of the apps… Continue reading Ruby the Rival: What does Java look like post-Rails?

OpenOffice.org Tips, Tutorials and Guides. Just a quick little post here, so I can get back to working on the new version of the Widget Kit, being created in the recently-released OpenOffice.org Draw 2.0. One of my most well-thumbed tech books of recent years has been the OpenOffice.org 1.0 Resource Kit, by Solveig Haugland and… Continue reading OpenOffice.org Tips, Tutorials and Guides

Asterisk 1.2. It looks like Asterisk 1.2 is out. From the release announcement: This release of Asterisk contains over 3,000 improvements on version 1.0, including hundreds of new features and applications. I’m planning on upgrading my home Asterisk server soon, possibly today, and then I’ll look at migrating pieces of my dial plan to RAGI… Continue reading Asterisk 1.2

The Web as it was meant to be used. Paul Graham's essay on Web 2.0 explains why I chose the tagline “Building Web 2.0” for XTech 2006. [Edd Dumbill's Weblog: Behind the Times]

Michael Covers Library 2.0 Whitepaper from Talis. Today is turning into a very lucky day for me, because I was also going to write about the recent Talis whitepaper on Library 2.0, along with some context for what libraries should be starting to talk about in this area. However, Michael beat me to it on… Continue reading Michael Covers Library 2.0 Whitepaper from Talis

iFolder, Drag and Drop Style. History: Last night I was trying to show the new iFolder UI to my wife last night. I tried to make it as interesting as I could so that I could observe how she might try to use the client (kind of just a non-formal usability study on the new… Continue reading iFolder, Drag and Drop Style

Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie starts new blog. He referred to it as Ray's Weblog v3. The reason: Before taking the CTO spot at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie had more than one blog of his own. Now he's back in the blogosphere, this time as a Microsoft executive. Ozzie wrote in this inaugural post that he intends… Continue reading Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie starts new blog

Kaminsky: Rootkit Causing Widespread Infection.. Kaminsky: Rootkit Causing Widespread Infection. This morning, security researcher Dan Kaminsky announced an ingenious method for gauging the extent of the Sony XCP CD rootkit infection. His findings suggest that at least hundreds of thousands of computers are likely already infected, and that Sony probably has data that would show… Continue reading Kaminsky: Rootkit Causing Widespread Infection.

Google's bet on small. Forbes has a nice piece on how Google takes advantage of small teams in a big organization to actually get things done. For all those who say “this wouldn’t work for us because we’re too big,” just have a look at one of the world’s most successful companies. Brin and Page… Continue reading Google's bet
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