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December 31, 2009

My tech industry predictions for 2010

December 24, 2009

$1.5 trillion a year for "defense" spending, little money left for local governments; living locally; Happy Holidays

December 18, 2009

Building the EtherPad system and perusing the source code

December 14, 2009

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is pretty cool

December 14, 2009

The cost of commoditization of computing: infrastructure and software

December 13, 2009

IntelliJ version 9.0

December 07, 2009

Balkanisation of Ruby?

December 06, 2009

Privacy and Security in the Internet Age

December 06, 2009

Coolness! good instructions for trying Rails 3.0pre

December 03, 2009

New Amazon Web Services feature: boot from EBS

November 25, 2009

Playing with Chrome OS

November 19, 2009

I am watching the live Chrome OS Webcast

November 17, 2009

Hosted MongoDB and CouchDB

November 17, 2009

nice: Rubymine 2.0 released

November 11, 2009

MongoDB has good support for indexing and search, including prefix matching for AJAX completion lists

November 10, 2009

How to install CouchDB + nginx + basic authentication on EC2, including a Ruby client

November 08, 2009

"always on" MongoDB installation on my laptop

October 27, 2009

Using nailgun for faster JRuby startup

October 27, 2009

I just tried Amazon's new Relational Database Service (RDS)

October 27, 2009

Securing your Mac laptop

October 24, 2009

More getting stuff done by doing what I most want to do experiments

October 23, 2009

RDF datastores are noSQL also - always keep an RDF data store service running

October 18, 2009

Cloud computing options and portability

October 17, 2009

Switching an AppEngine project from JRuby+Sinatra to Java+JSP

October 17, 2009

I built the open source IDEA 9.0 git snapshot - works fine

October 14, 2009

Nice tool for writing and maintaining documentation: YMUL web service and yumlcmd Ruby gem

October 11, 2009

Some frustration with JRuby + Rails on Google AppEngine

October 10, 2009

Designing for scalability and platform portability

October 05, 2009

Storing Lucene indices in Cassandra; cloud versus running your own server farm

October 01, 2009

Interesting new book: "Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World"

October 01, 2009

Using Facebook Connect just got a lot easier

September 29, 2009

Nice: RubyMine 2.0 will be a free upgrade

September 12, 2009

My DevX article "Using Gambit-C Scheme to Create Small, Efficient Native Applications" is now online

September 10, 2009

Adventures of living in the mountains: heavy monsoon rains and flooding

September 07, 2009

I just read the text for Obama's speech to school kids: it is non-political and strong on American values

September 06, 2009

Very much liking Amazon EC2

September 06, 2009

Giving something back

September 05, 2009

great video talk: "Innovation in Search and Artificial Intelligence"

August 31, 2009

Easy installation is a form of elegance

August 31, 2009

Notes on using PowerLoom with SBCL Common Lisp

August 30, 2009

I have been very busy

August 05, 2009

Yes! Google Java AppEngine Plugin is now available for Eclipse 3.5

August 03, 2009

Good advice: enjoy whatever you are doing at the moment

August 02, 2009

Google AppEngine and OpenID

Tools: experiment with many, master a few of them

If you have a Google Wave account, then try my Robot extension

Have fun with the AMI containing the examples from my latest Ruby book

Writing Wave robots that use blip titles and text

Wave may end up being the new Internet coolness

Google Wave gadgets

Cool: just wrote my first Google Wave "robot" JSON web service

Book project, Google Wave, and a kayaking video

Gambit-C Scheme has become my new C

Common Lisp RDFa parser and work on my new AllegroGraph book

Measurement promotes success

Continuing to work on my AllegroGraph book

W3C killing off XHTML2 in favor of HTML5: bad for the Semantic Web?

PragPub - free monthly magazine for developers

My new APress book was released today: "Scripting Intelligence: Web 3.0 Information, Gathering and Processing"

USA: return to 'robustness'

Tough choice in the USA

My Java AppEngine article published; my wife's video; more good experiences with Heroku

ClioPatria semantic search web-server

Opera Unite is an interesting idea

Heroku: Rails hosting done right

Google Translator Toolkit: wow!

Ruby client for search and spelling correction using Bing's APIs

I avoid installing software with sudo

Chrome browser betas for OS X and Linux - very fast!

Open source, the gift economy, and the new world order

Scala really is a "better Java"

Google's Wave platform

Google's (eventual) support for RDFa

My Ubuntu/OS X MacBook

I just switched my MacBook over to Ubuntu

I switched to using RubyMine for all of my Rails development

Good article on the economies of scale

My book is almost done

'Getting Stuff Done', new Ubuntu 9.04, OS X

Apache Mahout Scalable Machine Learning first public release

Configuring nginx for both Rails and Tomcat