March 6, 2011 | In: Links, open source, Web, Work
Once upon a time I mini-ranted about the cloud not really being ready for all of us to move in. And only a week ago Google's mail service once again went down taking a couple thousand (now restored) email accounts with it in the process... There are...
June 28, 2010 | In: open source, Personal, Video
...and introducing Lenny...
April 26, 2010 | In: open source, Work
shared by Mark Val Neat little application that allows you to test how your server will hold up once out there in the real world. download...
March 8, 2010 | In: open source, Video
Wonderfully nerdy talk by Tim Berners-Lee given at TED about how data has been taken control of by the Open Source Community. At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data...
March 8, 2010 | In: Links, open source, Video, Work
Promising Video conferencing tool that I stumbled across this weekend. It looks perfect for creating an online classroom, a small play ground for a dispersed development team, or pretty much anything else you can think of for this type of application. I...
February 19, 2010 | In: Links, open source, Personal, Web
1. Software is a poor organizing principle for digital production. 2. Digital literacy should reach beyond the limitations of software. 3. Discourse should not be trapped by production technologies. 4. Accommodate and forgive the end user, not the...
February 15, 2010 | In: Audio, Flash, Links, open source, Personal, Video, Web
The launch of the iPad (a name I still find rather unfortunate) kicked of a flurry of hoorays and boos from all over the web. It has really been quite funny to follow. I do have to admit I too have my problems with the iPad (or rather the iPodTouch which...
January 26, 2010 | In: open source, Personal, Work
stumbled across this wonderfully nerdy talk on Python. The intriguing part is the fact that this is a googler talking to googlers. As I have gone through and experimented my RoR book, and a friend mentioned Python the other day, it reignited my interest....
January 3, 2010 | In: open source, Work
From what I can see, this toolkit essentially takes the best out of the Codeigniter Database Library and wraps it all in a standalone library that you can port into almost any other PHP application. Definitely worth checking out. I can see this work...