Author: andy

Pointers

Mark Pilgrim describes whats new in Atom 0.3. #

World Top Secret: Our Earth Is Hollow!  Apparently. #

NEO: A code generation tool and framework providing an object facade over ado.net. (Via Mike Gunderloy). #

“a day on Mars is 39.5 minutes longer than a [terrestrial] day.” Expect to see companies relocating to Mars to squeeze that little bit more working-time out of their exployees. (Via Slashdot) #

Now playing: Big Cat, Afro Celt Sound System.

Pointers: .NET Eval, RSS

CodeProject sample illustrating runtime compilation – “A .NET eval statement”. Neat. #

Intel is making available a free (as in speech) machine-learning library. It says here that its useful for data mining and related tasks. #

pReSS: An RSS 2.0 editor. I’m amazed they’ve gone to the effort of doing this. Does _anyone_ edit RSS feeds by hand? And if you did, why not just use a generic XML editor? #

Actually, if you were to use a vanilla XML editor to edit RSS feeds, then a schema for RSS documents would be helpful. I assumed that the official RSS Specification page would have a link to one, but it doesn’t. Why?  #

Configuration Management Patterns. From 1997 but still fresh. #

The next big thing: Push to talk. Yep, thats all. #

BOFH. Too funny.

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Rajesh Jain points to the first of a series of articles on Om Malik’s blog about “Lone Coders” – independent developers (of code or content) making a living in the gaps between corporate product offerings. The first part, “Blogging for Dollars”, is about the developer’s of Movable Type, Ben and Mena Trott. Facinating. Subscribed. #

Kevin Kelly has a smart website and, although its not a blog, it has a few feeds. Thats Kevin Kelly that founded Wired, the Long Now Foundation, the Whole Earth Catalogue, and the Global Business Network. Very smart guy. He also wrote one of my all-time favorite non-fiction books. #

Amazing notebooks. The paper kind. Gotta get me some of these. (Via Kevin Kelly). #

Now playing: Sacral Nirvana, Buddah Bar vol 3.

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Fast Company: The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know. A dismal tale of cheap pickles and a company that would eat the world if it could. #

WorldChanging has a post with some great links to high-quality climate change and international development information. #

Another good one from Rory. #

Scotsman: “One third of US visitors to Scotland believe the haggis is a real animal and almost a quarter would like to hunt the beast, according to a survey by a haggis maker and a US tourism association website.”

Pointers: SCO, Zen-TV, Green Power

ZDNet: Scoring SCO’s legal games. “When this whole sorry affair is over and BB King can get on with writing the Ballard of Black Dog McBride, Groklaw will stand as a monument to how a community under threat can gather its resources and calmly set about restoring sanity in a hurricane of bluster.” #

I know someone who could try this: Zen TV Experiment. #

Guardian: Mini-turbine brings ‘green power for all

Whidbey and WinFS

VisualStudio Magazine has a good article on Whidbey. Some exciting hints about Yukon integration and lifecycle management tools, but the gist seems to be that this is a release targeted at enterprise developers. #

Ray Ozzie points out the really exciting thing about WinFS is not the search, its the common schemas that apps can use to store their data. I hope he’s right that these standard, extensible schemas will enable interoperability at the data level. Currently, we as an industry don’t have much experience with reusing schemas across multiple organizations.