These are my links for January 20th through January 21st:
- Images of NASA’s Future – The New York Times Science Slide Show Slide 1 of 12 – The next-generation system of space vehicles at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been called quot;Apollo on steroidsquot; because of its resemblance to vehicles from the early days of the United States space program.
- Red Hat set to surpass Sun in market capitalization | The Open Road – CNET News – In what may come to be seen as a deeply symbolic moment in the history of operating systems, Red Hat is on the verge of surpassing Sun Microsystems#039; market capitalization for the first time.
- 75 New Adobe AIR JavaScript Code Samples Available – Adobe AIR Team Blog – Adobe platform evangelist Kevin Hoyt announced on his blog that he has made available the source code for 75 Adobe AIR code samples built using JavaScript. This is a fantastic way to get up to speed on AIR#039;s API#039;s
- Google As Economic Barometer – Forbes.com – The Internet giant#039;s earnings report on Thursday gives a reading on the economy. Investors searching Google#039;s fourth-quarter earnings may see clues about the state of the Internet ad business, the economy and the future of the company itself.
- whitehouse.gov Website Code – You want to read about the code structure of the new whitehouse.gov website on this historic Inauguration Day of the 44th president of the USA. The site is built on ASP.NET.
- ActiveRecord JavaScript Library Announced AIR Support – Adobe AIR Team Blog – For developers creating Ajax applications using Adobe AIR, this means they can persist JavaScript objects and data using pure JavaScript syntax. All the underlying SQL commands are simplified into higher level APIs that are more natural feeling for JavaScript developers
- Technology – President Obama and Vice President Biden understand the immense transformative power of technology and innovation and how they can improve the lives of Americans
- Why I often prefer Prototype too on Dion Almaer’s Blog – For me, Prototype is the right balance for many of my projects. I still enjoy playing and using others when the project calls for them, and I am ignoring the huge number of other great frameworks (YUI, GWT, MooTools, Ext, SproutCore, Cappucino, man I could go on forever here).
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Offers Customers New Features and Capabilities – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 supports larger x86-64 systems. The number of supported physical CPUs is increased to 126, while maximum memory is increased to 1TB. Virtual server CPU and memory limits have been increased to 32 and 80GB respectively – far higher than competing virtualization products.
- InfoQ: Article: Getting Started With Spring Integration – In this article, Joshua Long introduces the readers to Spring Integration, an extension of the Spring framework supporting the Enterprise Integration Patterns. After a short introduction into Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), the article presents an example of the integration between an email application and a blogger one.
- Hillary Clinton Mouthing Along To Presidential Oath | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source – Network news cameras covering Barack Obama#039;s inauguration ceremony Tuesday captured Hillary Clinton silently moving her lips along with each word of the minute-long presidential oath of office