July 2011
42 posts
Clever Kickstarter project. The isostick is a USB flash memory stick that likes to pretend it is also an optical drive http://kck.st/pbNrTf
#Ebook Deal/Day: Jenkins: The Definitive Guide - Only $17.49 (Save 50%) w/code DDJEN http://oreil.ly/pVhcvB
Maker Faire Detroit this weekend →
This weekend, Maker Faire Detroit opens at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI. Charlie Wollberg framed it perfectly on his blog:
What if Albert Einstein, Willy Wonka, Curious George,…
A DIY Electronic Medical Record is the next step toward the Electronic Medical Record we’ve been promised for decades http://bit.ly/nABUAo
Report from Open Source convention health track,... →
Open source software in health care? It’s limited to a few pockets of use—at least in the United States—but if you look at it a bit, you start to wonder why any health care institution uses any…
Be part of #OSCON Java by saving 50% off essential books http://oreil.ly/mXl31Z One week only @osconj
Visualizing structural change →
My ongoing series about the elmcity project has shown a number of ways in which I invite participants to think like the web. One of the principles I try to illustrate by example is:
3….
The future of community →
This morning Jono Bacon from Canonical kicked off OSCON by talking about “The Future of Community”, which he admitted was a vague and dangerous title to choose. People who try to predict the…
Make long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly with the Chosen JavaScript plug-in http://bit.ly/oS7VZC
Sexual Harassment at Conferences: A Big No-Nohttp://oreil.ly/r1ZTXH
OSCON subcultures →
After a weekend at the
href=”http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/”>Community Leadership
Summit—check out the great …
Sexual Harassment at Technical Conferences: A Big... →
We’ve been contacted recently about issues of sexual harassment at technical conferences, including at Oscon, which starts tomorrow in Portland. At O’Reilly we take those issues very seriously….
Publishing News: Scribd flirting with ebook... →
Here’s a few highlights from this week’s publishing news. Scribd takes baby steps toward ebook subscriptions Scribd’s new long-form reading and reformatting platform
Float was in
the…
SMS and mobile data reveal communication communities — some new, some old. http://oreil.ly/q32Zv3
Synthetic Biology Open Language provides a standard method to describe synthetic biological parts, devices, and systems http://bit.ly/qUkuXD
#Ebook Deal/Day: Cassandra: The Definitive Guide - Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDCSD http://oreil.ly/m2fdsS
Visualization of the Week: Mobile data redraws the... →
New technologies may blur boundaries, but in many ways geography still dominates how our relationships are formed. Researchers at AT&T Labs Research, IBM Research, and MIT SENSEable City…
FOSS isn't always the answer →
There’s been some back and forth between various members of the technical press about whether the open source movement has lost its idealism, and the relative virtues of shunning or accepting…
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Must read: "Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End... →
Some lovely bits from Paul Ford’s excellent piece, “Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?”
“There should be a word for that feeling you get when an older person — and not much older, so quickly are things changing — shames him or herself by telling young people how to live. I’d vote for Bedeutungslosigkeitschmach, or ‘irrelevance shame,’ (made...
A free O’Reilly webcast with @Reichental, 10amPT today: Skills to succeed in a complex technology job market http://t.co/84PeXJP
“You’re not stupid, but you can be fooled.” How online companies are using gaming techniques to game consumers http://bit.ly/q0rNfz
Why don’t they get it? Tech predictions focusing only on technology miss a key component: people. http://oreil.ly/r1yCMS
Developer Week in Review: Christmas in July for... →
Only a few weeks left until OSCON. Alas, I won’t be making it this year. I’m taking a few weeks with the family in August to drive down the California coast, and with a major software delivery…
Why does #dotgov reform matter? http://t.co/jyEZ7vc Government now exists in a data-driven world of apps & mobile devices. #gov20
There are bigger issues surrounding the .gov... →
The United States federal government is reforming its Internet strategy. In the context of looming concerns about the debt ceiling, high unemployment, wars abroad, rising healthcare costs, and the…
While waiting for the official app, here’s how to read Kindle books on a BlackBerry PlayBook http://oreil.ly/n1rdzo
MADlib is an open-source library for scalable in-database analytics, and v0.2beta is ready for download http://bit.ly/gbor4p
.@Stanford’s computer science 101 class is now taught in JavaScript: http://t.co/xuKgi1F /via @gnat http://t.co/97BksUx
SaaS startup Wingu aims to accelerate the pace of science with interactive tools that empower research collaboration http://bit.ly/qWPC5g
Top stories: July 4-8, 2011 →
Here’s a look at the top stories published across O’Reilly sites this week.
Seven reasons you should use Java again
To mark the launch of Java 7, here’s seven reasons why Java is…
Electronics designers can now collaborate on open hardware design projects at the Open Hardware Repository http://bit.ly/qtdIAi
Open government data to fuel Kenya's app economy →
From Brazil to France to Australia to India, new laws and platforms are giving citizens new means to ask for, demand or simply create greater government transparency. The open data…
Node.js is breaking JavaScript out of the browser. Learn more about this server-side solution http://oreil.ly/opyvNU
Four short links: 7 July 2011 →
Commodore 64 PC — gorgeous retro look with fairly zippy modern internals. (via Rob Passarella)
Designing Github for Mac — a retrospective from the author of the excellent Mac client for…
Jud Valeski (@jvaleski) on how Gnip handles the Twitter fire hose http://oreil.ly/kXfwn4
Four short links: 4 July 2011 →
Let There Be Smite (Pippin Barr) — simple diversion for the 4th of July. It won’t be easy for God to save America. (via Pippin’s blog)
Basel Wear — to answer the question I know was…
Great examples of Paper.js - a comprehensive open source vector graphics scripting framework http://bit.ly/kcl83B
Brief thoughts on Google Plus →
The blogosphere is already
full with comments and reviews on Google Plus. I won’t try to duplicate what other people have said.
I have one very quick reaction, though: I was an early…
Till Nagel on designing custom maps in Processing with TileMill http://bit.ly/kdIh9D
Radar's top stories: June 27-July 1, 2011 →
Here’s a look at the top stories published on Radar this week.
Get started with Hadoop
Focusing on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and MapReduce, this in-depth piece…
GoldentOrb will “crunch terabytes of graph data while still keeping the relationships between the data intact.” http://bit.ly/kGNTVr
Publishing News: Survey finds ereader ownership... →
Here are a few of this week’s publishing highlights. (Note: Some of these stories were previously published here on Radar.)
More people are ereading
A report released this week from the
