Archive for July, 2005

Jojo Paderes – Java Setters/Getters Technique: Should You Use It?
Javalobby – Use Hibernate Statistics When Optimizing Queries
Jeremy Zawodny – Y!Q Challenge Winners
Om Malik – Winamp Creator Unleashes NinJam
Gizmodo – Nike Maxsight
Brennan – Easy to Use Google Maps with GPlotter

This just in from Om Malik, Yahoo has continued their recent buying spree with the addition of Pixoria.

Yahoo has bought, Pixoria, the company behind Konfabulator, the widget application. Widgets are small web-apps that run on your desktop and retrieve information from the Internet. These tiny apps basically use all the web technologies. Pixoria used to [...]

Patrick Gotthardt – Improving JScrollPane with mouse based scrolling
Architect Corner – InterOperability Series: REST WebServices
Ted Neward – EJB History and Future
Santosh Kumar – MySwing Project
Channel 9 – Meet The start.com Team – Hi Sanaz!
Silicon Bean – GoingOn Gets VC Funding
Josh Kaufman – The Personal MBA: Mastering Business Without Spending a Fortune
CNET – Top 10 Web [...]

I just started reading David Cowan and have so far found him to be an interesting read. David’s a VC with Bessemer Venture Partners.
I see that Bessemer has invested in Affymax, a drug discovery firm utilizing peptide-based biochemistry. I wonder what they’re using to manage workflow and data in the lab. [...]

I’ll start this off by saying that I’ve always been interested in the stock markets. I’ve just finished reading the two Fortune.com articles commemorating the 10 years that have passed since Netscape’s IPO in 1995.
Part 1 – Remembering Netscape: The Birth of the Web
Part 2 – How Netscape Lost Its Way
I’ve read The [...]

I’m in Seattle for the week at an ISB proteomics training course.
I’m having a hard enough time just keeping up to date reading my blogroll so I won’t be posting much this week. What I do write about the course will reside over at myProteome.
Staying at the Watertown Hotel near Lake Union. [...]

I agree with Justin’s post regarding how easy (or pain-free) it is to do XUL development. I toyed around with it a month or so back and agree that it’s amazingly simple to develop something that presents well and for all intents and purposes behaves like a normal application. Kudo’s again to the [...]

The folks at SourceLabs have released Swik, the free and open database of Open Source projects that anyone can edit. It’s sort of a SourceForge/Freshmeat meets Delicious meets [enter your search engine here]. It has a wiki aspect for allow users to modify content which is an interesting perspective. I guess the [...]

Well, I haven’t quite kicked my desire to play more with ruby so I’m planning a little side project using the Odeum bindings.
It’s too late to start tonight but I’ll try to crank something out tomorrow after work.
Ruby/Odeum is a binding to the fantastic QDBM Odeum inverted index library. Odeum is used in the [...]

Mark Cuban has a post reflecting on times past and how future generations will one day be considering 2005 to be the good ole days.
Now if you ask me whats the best console ever made, I’ll probably say the original Nintendo. Try to get to play a nintendo game now (via [...]




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  • Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...






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