From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Daily del.icio.us for October 28th

October 28, 2008

Google is oddly silent about Grand Central | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com – Google is being very quiet about Grand Central, the virtual phone service it acquired in July 2007 but hasn’t really done anything with since. In my opinion, Grand Central is already a good service. There are a few features I’d like [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for October 26th through October 27th

October 27, 2008

Network Effects in Data – O'Reilly Radar – Nick Carr's difficulty in understanding my argument that cloud computing is likely to end up a low-margin business unless companies find some way to harness the network effects that are the heart of Web 2.0 made me realize that I use the term "network effects" somewhat differently, [...]

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…I came along, I wrote a song for you!

October 26, 2008

Coldplay was the musical guest on tonight's episode of Saturday Night Live and they were amazing as usual. They played 3 songs and it looked like they were going into a 4th song as the show ended and the credits started to roll. They performed Viva La Vida, Lost and Yellow on the show [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for October 23rd through October 25th

October 26, 2008

Why Barack Obama Is Winning – TIME – He has done this by introducing a quality to American politics that we haven't seen in quite some time: maturity
The Database Programmer: Minimize Code, Maximize Data – The rule "Minimize Code, Maximize Data" has positive impacts and the coding process, the debugging process, the maintenance process, and [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for October 20th through October 21st

October 21, 2008

REST for Java developers, Part 1: It's about the information, stupid – JavaWorld – When you need to invoke behavior in standard, contract-bound ways between disparate partners, SOAP is a good approach. If, on the other hand, you are looking to share information in flexible, scalable, reusable ways, then REST is a great approach
InfoQ: Business [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for October 18th through October 20th

October 20, 2008

The Short List for U.S. Chief Technology Officer – BusinessWeek – Barack Obama has pledged to name a cabinet-level CTO to oversee a job-creating national broadband buildout if he's elected. Big names abound
Wikimedia Ubuntu migration FAQ – Meta – There's been some recent news coverage about Wikimedia's ongoing migration of servers to Ubuntu Linux. While [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for October 16th through October 18th

October 18, 2008

Microsoft makes gains in server virtualization | InfoWorld | News | 2008-10-17 | By Eric Lai, Computerworld – Bolstered by the June launch of its Hyper-V virtualization software , Microsoft grabbed nearly a quarter of the fast-growing x86 server virtualization market in the second quarter, IDC said Thursday.
XSLT-based XHTML Markup Sanitizer – O'Reilly Broadcast – [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for October 13th through October 16th

October 16, 2008

Java Entrepreneur: MySQL Co Founder plans to quit since current stay becomes unpleasant – I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organizations. I HATE all the rules that I need to follow, and I also HATE breaking them. It would be far better for me [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for October 11th through October 13th

October 13, 2008

Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Developer Tools and the Open Web – We’re also excited to announce that Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, co-founders of Ajaxian, the Ajax Experience, and long-time supporters of the open Web, have joined Moziila full-time to lead this newly formed Developer Tools Lab
Ext JS – Ext Charting and Mapping [...]

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Upgraded my computer – Love the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT card

October 12, 2008

I have a couple of computers at home but my primary machine is a DELL desktop running Vista. This is a dual-core machine with 4 GB of RAM but it ran sloooooooooooowwwwww. So I just upgraded the machine with a new 500w power supply and a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT video card. [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for October 8th through October 11th

October 11, 2008

InfoQ: Cascading – Data Processing API for Hadoop MapReduce – Cascading is a new processing API for data processing on Hadoop clusters, and supports building complex processing workflows using an expressive API as opposed to directly implementing Hadoop MapReduce algorithms.
InfoQ: Open Source WS Stacks for Java – Design Goals and Philosophy – Among the most [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for October 5th through October 8th

October 8, 2008

Business Technology : Oracle Springs on Primavera – Oracle continued its buying binge Wednesday, buying Primavera Systems, which makes project-management software. In this case Oracle isn’t buying customers or its way into a new market. It’s buying technology
20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know – NETTUTS – There are a few special techniques or effects [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for October 4th

October 4, 2008

Hueniverse: Beginner’s Guide to OAuth – Part III : Security Architecture – As an authorization delegation protocol, OAuth must be secure and allow the Service Provider to trust the Consumer and validate the credential provided to gain access. To accomplish that, OAuth defines a method for validating the authenticity of HTTP requests.
Microsoft's Turner Blocks Google [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for October 2nd through October 4th

October 4, 2008

Examining America's presidential candidates | Examining the candidates | The Economist – A survey of academic economists by The Economist finds the majority—at times by overwhelming margins—believe Mr Obama has the superior economic plan, a firmer grasp of economics and will appoint better economic advisers.
Java Programmer: Quick review of Collections in Java – For a [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for September 27th through October 1st

October 1, 2008

Amazon Web Services – The new site offers better navigation and easier access to the content related to each service. All of the relevant options and links are available in a series of convenient pull-down menus. It is now much easier to find AWS news, events, and media coverage. Dedicated sections on the right [...]

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