Web2Open: Great Sessions, Recessionary Pricing
Next week is Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, a four-day mind meld for programmers, practitioners and novitiates. The Expo is co-produced by O’Reilly and TechWeb, who, for the third year in a row, are...
View ArticleFour short links: 27 August 2009
Second Degree Murder and Six Other Crimes Cheaper Than Pirating Music — I’m outraged that the Obama administration is supporting the RIAA on the case against Jammie Thomas, a single mother of four who...
View ArticleFour short links: 23 December 2009
Blippy — Automatically share your favorite purchases from iTunes, Amazon, Zappos, Visa, MasterCard, and more. See what your friends are buying. Interesting premise, and interesting possibilities for...
View ArticleFour short links: 19 January 2010
Stack Overflow Data Dump — all public data in Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User. OpenBTS — an open-source Unix application that uses the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) to...
View ArticleFour short links: 13 May 2010
Don’t Simply Build a More Open Facebook, Build a Better One — Most people don’t care so much about whether technology is “open” or “closed” so long as it works. (Case in point: iPhone.) Rather than...
View ArticleFour short links: 11 May 2011
webshell — command-line tool for debugging/exploring APIs, open sourced (Apache v2) and written in node.js. (via Sean Coates) sample — command-line filter for random sampling of input. Useful when...
View ArticleFour short links: 24 September 2012
Open Monograph Press — an open source software platform for managing the editorial workflow required to see monographs, edited volumes and, scholarly editions through internal and external review,...
View ArticleFour short links: 14 December 2012
Which Science to Fund: Time to Review Peer Review? (Peter Gluckman) — The study concluded that most funding decisions are a result of random effects dominated by factors such as who was the lead...
View ArticleFour short links: 22 January 2013
Design Like Nobody’s Patenting Anything (Wired) — profile of Maker favourites Sparkfun. Instead of relying on patents for protection, the team prefers to outrace other entrants in the field. “The open...
View ArticleFour short links: 24 May 2013
Ubiquity — Sears Holdings has formed a new unit to market space from former Sears and Kmart retail stores as a home for data centers, disaster recovery space and wireless towers. Google Abandons Open...
View ArticleFour short links: 11 July 2014
Awesome Awesomeness — list of curated collections of frameworks and libraries in various languages that do not suck. They solve the problem of “so, I’m new to (language) and don’t want to kiss a lot...
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The Web welcomes
“They learn a bit of Web stuff, and the next thing you know they think they understand programming.” I’ve heard variations of that lament for the past two decades. I’ve heard it less lately, because...
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