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Guy Kawasaki · Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures · competition / entre/intra-preneurship / IT Management
From the fjords of Norway to the sands of Israel to the ice of Alberta to the waves of Honolulu, many regions of the world have Silicon Valley Envy. They look at the Valley as a place where people start...
Filed at 1:39am
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
So, I’ve been training a new employee who has some academic programming experience but no Ruby experience. I decided to revitalize my NubyGems series because now instead of trying to remember what I tripped over almost two years ago, I have active conversations with someone new to the language to work from.
Filed at 3:15am
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Since I reviewed Fedora Core 5 back in April I’ve become increasingly frustrated with one aspect of what is otherwise a very well done distribution: package management and keeping my system secure and up to date. I’ve run into repeated instances of yum deciding I needed a lot of new packages and promptly failing over just one. pup, which is really just a pretty but somewhat crippled front end to yum, also fails in the same way. What I’ve discovered is that pup and yum aren’t broken at all. The code is doing precisely what it was designed to do.
Filed at 3:45am
Stephen Walli · VP, Open Source Development Strategy, Optaris · Enterprise Applications
Updated [10-Jun-2006]: Added a link at the end to Brian Aker's blog commentary on the panel. Brian Aker (MySQL), Miguel de Icaza (Novell/Ximian), and Mike Olsen (Oracle/SleepyCat) joined me on a panel on open source software business models at the...
Filed at 3:52am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, Via Knowledge · channels and content / Knowledge Management
I got a concise response yesterday from the guys that make Take 3 (Our Generation, Our Life - really). Take 3 is aimed at those of us advancing in years but afraid to admit it. Like MediaStorm it brings back previously relished values to the screen, i.e.
Filed at 4:40am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, Via Knowledge · channels and content / Knowledge Management
Yellow Arrow is a startlingly good combination of ideas shedding new light on how Web and mobile applications will interact.I know a dozen European organisations that are working on the interactive city guides built by the folks who live in them.
Filed at 5:30am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, Via Knowledge · for argument's sake / Knowledge Management
Craig Winneker over on techcentralstation , now called tcs daily, is pushing the idea of a European Institute of Technology to match M.I.T over in the USA. Enough acronyms for now.Research is important to the new content world because future content will not necessarily be pieced together by people.
Filed at 5:41am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, Via Knowledge · error and bias / Knowledge Management
It made the front page of US News and World Report on the 5th, according to tcsdaily, and Time as well as Vanity Fair have been there recently. Last night the BBC continued its series on Climate Chaos, the subject already of a few harsh words.The programme was Five Disasters Waiting to Happen. Forgive me...
Filed at 6:06am
Bruce Johnson · Principal Consultant, ObjectSharp · Software Development
For developers, the move from VB6 to VB.NET (or any .NET language) is much more of a mental one than anything else. The syntax of VB.NET is sufficiently familiar to avoid syntax overload. But the functional differences are significant enough to make one question how .NET could make anyone more productive. It has been a while since I made the move myself, but I’d like to share the stages that I, and I suspect most other converts, have passed through.
Filed at 6:07am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, Via Knowledge · for argument's sake / Knowledge Management
I believe in them but over at the WSJ online this article presents the civilised case.
Filed at 8:36am
Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · Security
In case you thought you had any privacy on the Internet : Gonzales and Mueller asked Google Inc., Time Warner Inc.'s AOL and other companies to preserve the data at a May 26 meeting, citing their value to investigations into child-pornography distribution and terrorism. Internet companies typically keep customer histories for only a few days or weeks. The Justice Department said Thursday that it was not seeking to have e-mail content archived, just information about the websites people visit and those with whom they correspond.
Filed at 9:24am
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
I just noticed that IPython 0.7.2 was released, so I updated my dev environment to this version by doing easy_install --upgrade ipython. Anyone who uses Python even casually and doesn’t know about IPython needs to install it. This is one of a few of what I consider to be “must have” tools. It is an enhanced, customizable shell for Python.
Filed at 10:16am
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
I’m creating yet another website in Django , mostly for fun. One of the things I wanted this website to have was an RSS feed. I glanced at the documentation for generating a feed from Django and was initally put off because it looked a little cumbersome. I then began investigating my other options, like generating the feed manually, and decided to give the Django syndication doc a fuller read. I’m very glad that I did. The reason that Django’s RSS generation looked cumbersome at first glance is because it is featureful, flexible, and has every option you will probably need.
Filed at 12:16pm
Steve Goldstein · CEO, Alacra · Knowledge Management
Alacra Director of Ecommerce Jarid Lukin (who coined the term “Freemium”) noticed that yesterday’s Feedburner-Geffen Records press release doesn’t mention “RSS” once.RSS feeds are simply called “feeds” and Feedburner talks about their “leading feed management services.”This must have been done...
Filed at 1:03pm
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Not everyone has the time to write a book or a blog, or speak at conferences, but you can still help spread what you know. Just start talking. Last night’s Chicago Perl Mongers meeting was a good one. We had a bunch of new folks show up, and we had pseudo-lightning talks, so there was a lot of good interaction. In the strict sense, lightning talks are 5 minute talks, where you’re given exactly 5 minutes and at the end of that time, you’re done. When you only have 5 people doing lightning talks, you get lax with the timer.
Filed at 1:15pm
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
I just signed in to the new Google Spreadsheet and am impressed with it so far. Since Apple’s own iWork ‘06 lacks a full spreadsheet, the Google Spreadsheet might be a good complement to iWorks when connected to the net.
Filed at 1:15pm
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
It’s hard to imagine owning just one microphone. Different mics have different uses. Some are best at recording music, some are best for studio work, and others are the best choice for field recording. But if I had to limit myself to one affordable mic for any task, it would be the AKG C1000.
Filed at 1:48pm
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Google Spreadsheets supports IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape and Camino but provides no Safari support. (It worked fine on the Mac under Firefox.) Which begs the question: Do you trust a third-party web-based application with your data? Particularly Google which has had a few rather embarassing data loss incidents ? On the upside, gSpreadsheets offers .xls and .csv file downloads. Downside? The formatting is pretty primitive even though the basics are all on-offer: bolding, highlighting, underlining, merging cells and more. I was even able to drag between cells to create a range for my in-progress formula.
Filed at 2:16pm
Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · Security
From " Assassination in the United States: An Operational Study of Recent Assassins, Attackers, and Near-Lethal Approachers " (a 1999 article published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences:
Filed at 3:15pm
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
In an xml.com blog , Rick Jelliffe argues that the sorry state of desktop Java should prompt Sun to open-source Swing
Filed at 4:46pm