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August 22 2008
In this video interview, DHH discusses the current state of Ruby on Rails adoption. Who is using Rails? How was the culture changed over the past five years? Hansson also comments on the technologies that are catching his attention and how they might affect Rails in the months to come.… read moreAudio: Lawrence Lessig on Congressional Reform and Internet for Everyone
August 22 2008
Lawrence Lessig discusses Change-Congress.org, a online tool for users to tag congressional candidates as supporting or opposing reforms such as public financing, earmark reform, and congressional transparency. Lessig also responds to a few questions about InternetForEveryone.org, a coalition of public interest and industry groups working for open, universal, and affordable… read moreAugust 20 2008
In this video interview, DHH discusses the current state of Ruby on Rails adoption. Who is using Rails? How was the culture changed over the past five years? Hansson also comments on the technologies that are catching his attention and how they might affect Rails in the months to come.… read moreAudio: Lawrence Lessig on Congressional Reform and Internet for Everyone
August 18 2008
Lawrence Lessig discusses Change-Congress.org, a online tool for users to tag congressional candidates as supporting or opposing reforms such as public financing, earmark reform, and congressional transparency. Lessig also responds to a few questions about InternetForEveryone.org, a coalition of public interest and industry groups working for open, universal, and affordable… read moreRadiohead Remix: Tim Sinnott, GIS, ArcMAP, and Google Earth
July 30 2008
Radiohead shot an entire video using LIDAR and released the dataset for people to remix and render as they see fit. In this first article of a four-part series, we profile Tim Sinnott. Tim used ArcMAP and Google Earth to create a fly-by of Thom Yorke's face over Kansas. Read… read moreLefkowitz: Open Development Lifecycle, Quintillian Rhetoric, Juggling
July 23 2008
Who needs Agile or RUP? r0ml builds upon Quintillian's Insitutes of Oratory (from 80 AD) and the Compendium of Juggling to create a working model of Open Source Software Development. read moreTerry Childs: San Francisco's Imprisoned FiberWAN Administrator
July 19 2008
Is Terry Childs a Maniacal Hacker-Terrorist or a Capable and Dedicated System Administrator. While the mainstream media paints a colorful picture of villain and vice, Paul Venezia of infoworld uncovers a different story. What if this is just the case of job termination gone wrong. read moreNeo4J: A Different Database (+ Expect More Bad Java News)
July 12 2008
Foocamp attendees, beware, we're covering you from afar. Peter Neubauer twittered about Neo4J this morning and it caught my eye. "Neo is a graph database. It is an embedded, disk-based, fully transactional Java persistence engine that stores data structured in graphs rather than in tables." Is this to be believed?… read moreAudio: Rep. Culberson on Twittering from Congress
July 12 2008
In this 24 minute interview, John Culberson backs down from the partisan call to arms he issued this week on Twitter. He discusses transparency and technology in Congress, and the efforts to clarify the rules governing which web sites a member of Congress can participate in. read moreLet Our Congress Tweet. Sign the Petition.
July 09 2008
Social network is just beginning to affect the way the governed relate to The Government. Let's not close the door on congressional access to tools like Twitter, Qik, and Identi.ca. The Sunlight Foundation urges the Congress to clarify rules and remove restrictions on member web use. If you want congress… read moreJesse Robbins Quote from New York Times
July 05 2008
Jesse Robbins, Chair of the Velocity Conference, was quoted in today's New York Times in an article On the Web, More Outrage Over Outages written by Brad Stone. Here's a quote: Jesse Robbins, a former Amazon executive who was responsible... read moreAudio: Luiz Barroso on Energy Proportional Computing
July 01 2008
Luiz Barroso talks about the concept of Energy Proportional computing and how he thinks DRAM and disk manufacturers could do a better job creating devices consume energy in proportion to the computing to perform. Barroso and Holzle analyzed 5000 servers at Google over six months and found the average CPU… read moreBrian Cox Discusses the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
June 26 2008
This interview audio and transcript is being published with another article "Large Hadron Collider as Massive Grid Computer". The following interview took place on June 19, 2008. Tim O'Brien: Earlier today I had the chance to speak to Brian Cox.... read moreLarge Hadron Collider as Massive Grid Computer
June 26 2008
Part of the O'Reilly News mission is to dig deeper into stories like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and get a more concrete sense of the technology behind the story. Everyone seems to know what the LHC... read moreAlso find Timothy M. on:
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