Microsoft announces SSE. I admit it, this is a day I thought would long to arrive – the day when Microsoft would surprise me positively again (sans-Xbox 360, which is impressive on its own). They have just announced SSE (Simple Sharing Extensions), which is basically an implementation of two way item-sharing (think bidirectional RSS). The… Continue reading Microsoft announces SSE

Aardvark'd DVD Goes on Sale.  Last March, when we were starting to plan our summer internships, I was disappointed by the massive bogusness of the so-called “business challenges” on the TV show The Apprentice. From the posts over on the discussion groups, it was apparent to me that people were really excited to see each… Continue reading Aardvark'd DVD Goes on Sale

Virtual Server is ….. how cheap?. Did you guys see the news for this? Virtual Server R2 RTM'd and it now only costs $99 ? It can run on 64bit architecture, support Linux. Wow. It does kinda need one ….kinda…. sorta… dumb feature request. While it can run on 64bit machines… it can't emulate 64bit… Continue reading Virtual Server is ….. how cheap?

The Fivefold Path  What Every Webmaster and Web Developer MUST Know About Ruby on Rails and AJAX [del.icio.us/nic221]

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