This is an incomplete backup of my blog.
Please find my active blog at https://mark-watson.blogspot.comPosts
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I have tried to take advantage of extra time during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Custom built SBCL and using spaCy and TensorFlow in Common Lisp
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Protecting oneself from surveillance capitalism
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My hopes and predictions for the next 10 years
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GANs and other deep learning models for cooking recipes
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Back living in Sedona Arizona and enjoying my retirement
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My large Haskell + Python project KGcreator (tool for automating the generation of Knowledge Graphs) and auto code formatting
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I retired from Capital One yesterday
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Full circle from one laptop to rule them all to specialized function specific devices
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Our humanity vs. technology and corporatism
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Ocean Protocol Meetup
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Internet As Entertainment Vs Information Vs Knowledge
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Using Trained Keras Weights In Racket Scheme Code
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Centralized Vs Distributed Systems Publishing And Owning Our Own Content
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Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems
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Emacs Orgmode Flyspell Git Setup
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I Switched To Using Jeyll To Author My Blog
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I have removed blog comments to support GDPR compliance
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Is too much emphasis in Artificial Intelligence given to Deep Learning?
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Java JDK 10
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Trying out the Integrated Variants library to explain predictions made by a deep learning classification models
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Scheduling machine learning jobs to run in sequence
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Forget the whole world and focus on your world
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Easy Jupyter notebook setup on AWS GPU EC2 with machine learning AMI
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My blockchain side project to 'give something back'
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New job and two deep dives into tech
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I updated my Natural Language Processing (NLP) library for Pharo Smalltalk
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I am using Lisp more, and big changes to my consulting business
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Technology, antifragile businesses, and workflow
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Happy New Year 2017
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Benefits of static web sites hosted on Google Cloud Storage, Azure Storage, or Amazon S3
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My new Haskell book Haskell Tutorial and Cookbook now available
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Great short video by Douglas Rushkoff that summarizes his latest book 'Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus'
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The Julia programming language: amazingly nice
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My prediction: Immersive real-time VR in Olympic closing ceremonies in 8 years
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I was surprised that so many of the NACL 2016 papers described deep learning projects
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Some new love for Scala and Python
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Using TensorFlow Deep Learning neural network with the University of Wisconsin cancer data set
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Action items after attending the Decentralized Web Summit
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As AI systems make more decisions, we need Libre Software now more than ever
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Writing technical books: the craft of simplifying ideas
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I am enjoying my business trip in Singapore
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In defense of iPads as productivity devices
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History in the making: first Lee Sedol vs. AlphaGo match game
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OK, now I remember why I like Ruby: reading through the code for the Reality Wikipedia/DBPedia interface
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Great talk on Spark
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Simple Haskell: using a sqlite3 database
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I will not vote for Hillary Clinton. I reject the "lesser of two evils" argument.
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Happy New Year
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Raspberry Pi and education
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Digital Life: a modicum of privacy
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Ruby SVM text classifier
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My new book "Power Java" is released today
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My Cognition Technology blog and website
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I need some sympathy: spending most of my time coding in Java and Python
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We are getting closer to the dream of the 1980s and 1990s: software reuse
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I tried Windows 10 the first day of the rollout (today!)
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Comparing Clojure + Clojurescript with Scala + Scala.js
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Ubuntu Linux on my Chromebook without X11
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Experiences with my new Toshiba Chromebook 2
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using nitrous.io
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More infrastructure changes: Heroku
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Some infrastructure changes
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My two Clojure projects, life in Sedona Arizona, and my new book project
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Net Neutrality (Yeah!), a new distributed wiki, and my current Clojure project
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I bought an HP Stream 11" Windows 8.1 laptop
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Happy New Year
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Happy Holidays
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I am back from vacation
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I updated cookingspace.com
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Experimenting with Clojure + Ember.js and ClojureScript with Om
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It is simple to use the IBM Watson AI APIs
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I was accepted into the Microsoft BizSpark program
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I pushed a NLP demo to IBM's PaaS service BlueMix
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Setting up "Heroku like" git push deploys on a VPS is so easy
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Changed license on my Haskell NLP code and comments on IBM Watson AI system
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I am open sourcing my Haskell NLP experiments
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Testing the new Amazon Zocalo cloud file storage service
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Trying Office 365 on Mac, iPad, and Android
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Some Haskell hacks: SPARQL queries to DBPedia and using OpenCalais web service
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Setting up your own SPARQL endpoint for Freebase (with a Java client)
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My experience converting my NLP library and demo web app from Clojure to Haskell
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Do your family and friends a favor and watch the movie "Fed Up" with them
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More fun with OS X 10.10 Yosemite beta and Apple's new language Swift
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Experimenting with Apple's new language Swift
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Haskell experiments - NLP and Yesod web apps
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Technical diversity
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I am still trying to learn Haskell
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My new book "Build Intelligent Systems with JavaScript"
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Java 8 and Clojure
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Trying out the Google Cloud Platform
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Great joy in the world - Java 8 released
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I finally tried Google Glasses
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What a difference 3 years makes - Cassandra 2.x, CQL, Java, Clojure, and Node APIs
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My Mom Elaine Watson died yesterday
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Java and Clojure examples for reading the new WARC Common Crawl files
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Less Java and Clojure, more JavaScript
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I am very pleased to be helping the Common Crawl Organization
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Happy New Year
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Practical Internet Privacy and Security
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Trying to find a Java equivalent for Clojure + Compojure + Noir
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I am immersed in graph databases
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Great talk at Google today by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian
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Experience Working at Google
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My team at Google is hiring for a Semantic Web/Linked Data position
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JVM language shootout
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Working at Google as a consultant
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Free Software Foundation (FSF) is even more relevant now than ever before
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Using OpenCyc RDF/OWL data in StarDog
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Python SPARQL client example
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Semantic web and linked data are a form of agile development
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3rd edition of my book just released: “Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer’s Secret Weapon”
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Easy setup for A/B Testing with nginx, Clojure + Compojure
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The 4th edition of my book “Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming with Java” is now available
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My version of Ember.js ‘Get Excited Video’ code with Sinatra based service
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Rest service and client in DART
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Small example app using Ember.js and Node.js
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More Clojure deployment options
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Small example app using Ember.js and Clojure + Compojure + Noir
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Google Research's wiki-links data set
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Building custom data stores
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Using the Microsoft Translation APIs from Java, Clojure, and JRuby
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Goodness of micro frameworks and libraries
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A little weird, but interesting: using IntelliJ LeClojure's debugger with Clojure code
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Cooking functionally
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Faceted search: one take on Facebook's new Graph Search vs. other search services
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The Three Things
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Ray Kurzweil On Future AI Project At Google
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I am trying to improve my skills at design and web development
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Technology tire kicking: trying Rails 4.0 beta
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Happy Holidays and my future plans
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Home from our Amazon River vacation - here are some pictures
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Problem fixed with Holland America: they offered a nice refund
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I am going to be mostly off the Internet for 3 weeks
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Deep Learning
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"ClojureScript: Up and Running" book
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Will HTML5 be the most important technology of this decade?
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Clojure vs. Scala smackdown
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A revolution in education
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I tried using Twitter Bootstrap this morning. Really nice way to support mobile devices.
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Alternative JVM languages
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More work on my NLP web service
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Effectively using Linux for work
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Can we agree to stop buying Apple products?
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Rewrote my main markwatson.com web site in Clojure + Noir
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More Clojure Datomic experiments: decoupling data building and transactions, and adding text search
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A little Clojure wrapper for Datomic
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Using the Datomic free edition in a lein based project
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Using the new Bing Web Search API from Java and Clojure
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New cellphone: Samsung Galaxy S III
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My simple hack for using local JAR files in my Clojure lein projects
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Secrets of a polygot programmer
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I have been loving Ubuntu 12.04
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I just released some NLP code for Pharo Smalltalk
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Nice: OpenCyc version 4.0 has been released
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Using Dojo Mobile in Clojure Noir web apps
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A shoutout and thanks to the Pharo Smalltalk developers
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Code examples for a Dojo Mobile one page application. Backend in Ruby/Sinatra
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Experimenting with Dojo Mobile
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Importance of testing
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More on PaaS: new dotCloud pricing and services
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A better tool for private social and working networks? Using Open Source Apache Wave (used to be Google Wave)
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Redhat OpenShift is another interesting PaaS
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Deciding between two premium hosting options for a new side project
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I am a living advertisement for JetBrains products :-)
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The one computer to rule them all
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I am adjusting to a mobile digital life: the acceleration of convenience
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Since Bing search and spelling APIs are no longer free, I did a quick survey of other services and signed up for Yahoo BOSS search.
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Back from Vacation, catching up on work, and a Java retrospective
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Using Wolfram Alpha from Clojure
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A bright future, with some potential problems
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Using pjax with Clojure and Noir: minimize client side Javascript code while maintaining fast page load times
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Nice discovery: PJAX and Rails
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I feel a bit like a traitor to the open source movement: I just re-signed up as a Mac OS X and iOS developer
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github repo for 4th edition of my Java AI book
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Citrusleaf: an interesting (non open source) NoSQL data store
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Yes, the DynamoDB managed data service is a very big deal
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Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web, a slight return
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sleepybird.us site is online
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My two new projects: both web portals written in Clojure
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Using Emacs and org-mode in OS X
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(re) learning Clojure
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Using the New York Times Semantic Web APIs
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Closer to the metal: Clojure, Noir, and plain old Javascript
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Ruby Sinatra web apps with background work threads
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Using the Stardog RDF datastore from JRuby
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Experimenting with Google Cloud SQL
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The quality of new programming languages is apparent by looking at projects using the language
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Writing a simple SQL data source for the free LGPL version of SmartGWT
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Annoyed by anti-MongoDB post on HN
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Notes on converting an GWT + AppEngine web app using Objectify to a plain GWT + MongoDB web app
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Recent evaluations of web frameworks while on vacation
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Anyone know any SmartGWT and Java developers looking for a job?
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Common Lisp example code for my Semantic Web book is now LGPL licensed
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Changed license from AGPLv3 to LGPLv3 for example code in my book "Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications, Java, Scala, Clojure, and JRuby Edition"
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Semantic Web, Web 3.0, and composable systems
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A letter to my friends and family: the death of American democracy: not dying, but already dead
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Appreciating Steve Jobs and the people taking part in "Occupy Wall Street"
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Experimenting with Clojure 1.3 and Noir 1.2
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JPA 2 is the only part of Java EE 6 that I like a lot - how it compares to ActiveRecord
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Finally saw movie "Crazy Heart" - thinking that an AI could write country western songs
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For work I have been using GWT/SmartGWT. For fun: Seaside and Pharo
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Google+ Developer APIs
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Getting set up to work on the 4th edition of my Java Artificial Intelligence book
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Changing the way we use the Internet
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What I have been working on lately
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Second edition of "Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist"
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Working on a new GWT application for a personal project
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Apache Google Wave in a Box project is starting to look good
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Google+ seems to be very well done
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I am using SmartGWT on two projects
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Prelude to learning Clojure and Scala: learn some Haskell
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Largest public SPARQL endpoint: sparql.sindice.com
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Programmer study time
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Polyglot programmers: setting up multi-language access to data
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Text search in SimpleDB: a Ruby example
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And the best JVM replacement language for Java is: Java?
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Some new Platform as a Service providers: cloudfoundry.com and dotcloud.com
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(Roughly) comparing Play! version 1.2 with Rails
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Amazon Cloud Player: make sure you take advantage of their introductory offer
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The Cloud, The Cloud
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Node.js
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David Rumelhart passed away. RIP to a good guy.
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MongoDB 1.8 released - and there is joy throughout the land
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Nourish and manage your career, not your job
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Don't stray too far from well supported language, tool and platform combinations
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Curated data
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Big Data
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Two good books on AppEngine development
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Social networking: why fewer connections may be better
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Java EE 6 is actually pretty good
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Recommended: Niall Ferguson's "The Ascent of Money"
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Happy New Year
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Nice: Neo4j version 1.2 final released
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Good SimpleDB performance tips
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WebServius wrapper for web services and data services
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Control of news media == ability to set public opinion
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Christmas came early: my Google TV arrived at 7pm tonight
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Excellent product: RubyMine 3.0
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Getting the Dojo 1.5 rich text editor dijit.Editor working nicely with Rails 3
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Reading "The Rails 3 Way"
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Using cloud services when services like Delicio.us and Wave get cancelled
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Suggestions for Python SDK and AppEngine
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Platforms and Infrastructure as service
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AppEngine SDK 1.4 release is likely a game changer
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Python is not such a bad language
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Must-have tool for understanding your web site and blog: Google Analytics
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Wonderful book: "Land of Lisp" - Conrad Barski is a great author and communicator
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Distributed NoSQL datastores: Cassandra and Cloudant's BigCouch
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Good to be a programmer. Or: custom solutions are sometimes better
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Is it better to spend time learning new programming languages or study languages and tools you already use?
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New AppEngine 1.4.0 features a game changer for JVM languages
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Publishing to the Kindle, Android, iPhone, and iPad
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Benchmarks: memory use can be as important as runtime for some applications
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Clozure Common Lisp 1.6 has been released
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Thanks to Tom Munnecke for portrait photographs
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Contact your Congressional Representatives and Senators and ask them to have their families publicly go through the TSA grope experience
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I am softening my position on Oracle's stewardship of Java
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My nephew died this morning: rest in peace Anthony
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Question: what would be the legal ramifications of forking Java, but not calling it Java?
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Downloading all of your data from Facebook
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Free PDF for the Common Lisp edition of my "Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications" book
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Wow: I think QuickLisp will change my Common Lisp development setup
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Convergence on HTML5 for user facing software development
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Java support on the Mac
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review of new Hulu Plus service
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Future society: an optimum strategy for flourishing
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Social network based authentication done right
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Nice: Clojure results now in Computer Language Benchmarks Game
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My travel journal notes for my Siberia, Japan, and China trip
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I am back home after a 4 week vacation: blog comments are now enabled
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Big productivity gain: not having an Internet connection in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
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I am going to be on travel for 4 weeks: temporarily turning off blog comments
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Rich client web apps: playing with SproutCore, jQuery, and HTML5
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MongoDB "good enough practices"
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Very interesting technology behind Google's new Instant Search
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Using Hadoop for analyzing social network data
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why doesn't iTunes support Ogg sound files 'out of the box'?
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Two new books today
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I've improved my Hadoop map reduce development process
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Efficient: just signed up to write an article on Rails 3 after spending weeks spinning up on Rails 3
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Very cool: a tutorial on using the MongoDB sniff tool
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Very good news that Google will be providing a "Wave in a Box" open source package
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I finished reviewing a book proposal tonight for an AI text book
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GMail Priority InboxBox
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Command line tips for OS X and Linux
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Consistent APIs for collections
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Nice, just installed Rubinius-1.0.1
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Using cljr for Clojure development
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My light weight Clojure wrapper for the PowerLoom knowledge representation and reasoning system
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Ruby happiness: first Ruby 1.9.2 released, now Rails 3.0
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I am merging my other three blogs into this (my main) blog
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Moving MySQL to a large EBS volume
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Good resources for learning HTML5
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filling a tech knowledge hole: I bought "HTML5 Up and Running"
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How programming languages affect thinking; Clojure at work; my Clojure wrapper for PowerLoom
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Big Data
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Haskell is much easier after coding in Clojure and Scala for a while
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Interesting new Google Buzz API: PubSubHubbub firehose
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Good news: Google buying Freebase
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Scala 2.8 final released. I updated my latest book's Scala examples
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Good job: CouchDB version 1.0
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Monetizing social graphs
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Using Open Graph
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Reading two good books on using MapReduce algorithms for large scale text processing
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Spending money on faking public opinion: Cocoa Cola paid tweets, BP hiring people to down vote anti-BP stories and blog posts
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Interview with Dan Ingalls
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Nice: New Cog VM just-in-time compiler for Squeak and Pharo
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NewsWeek.com is using RDFa - let's reward them with our business
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Excellent: "Points of View" is a collection of previously unpublished essays written to celebrate Alan Kay's 70th birthday
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I have been working for CompassLabs
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Really liking Ubuntu 10.4 with my i5 laptop
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Very good movie by Kate Ray: "Web 3.0"
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I created a separate blog just for Clojure stuff
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I created a Clojure NLP project on github
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Clojure: using a local Maven repository in Leiningen based projects
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Sweet: Ubuntu 10.4 released
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I wish the Play framework was available when I did server side Java
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My Objectify-Appengine setup
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A great way to get around the long loading request times on AppEngine
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Tutorial on using Map Reduce to analyze log and web site click data
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my new project: http://my-foc.us
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Very useful book: "REWORK"
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Mobile device web apps
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My Clojure, MongoDB, Ring, and Compojure development setup
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My Clojure, Ring, Compojure development setup
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Three of my articles just published on developer.com
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First rough cut of software examples for my book "Practical Semantic Web Programming (Java, Scala, Clojure, and JRuby Edition)" is available
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My new Ruby Blog
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Switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ for AppEngine development
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JVM: JRuby's advantages over Clojure and Scala
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New (very) rough drafts available for both Java and Lisp editions of "Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications"
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Ugh, Python. But, PyCharm is charming :-)
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Wrappers: staying portable and agile
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Comparing Clojure and Scala as 'Java replacements'
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new URL for this blog: http://blog.markwatson.com
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Semantic Web: an alternative for RDFa
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Click is now a top level Apache project
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Saving money: using a 64bit Ubuntu VPS instead of a 64bit Large EC2 instance
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A followup on using Windows 7 for Ruby and Java development
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The beauty of Latex: my AllegroGraph book becomes two books, one for JVM languages and one for Lisp
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Looking towards a universal wrapper/proxy for knowlege and data stores
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Using Windows 7 for Ruby and Java development
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New laptop: Toshiba Satellite U505
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Running OpenCyc 2.0 on OS X
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My tech industry predictions for 2010
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$1.5 trillion a year for "defense" spending, little money left for local governments; living locally; Happy Holidays
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Building the EtherPad system and perusing the source code
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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is pretty cool
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The cost of commoditization of computing: infrastructure and software
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IntelliJ version 9.0
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Balkanisation of Ruby?
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Privacy and Security in the Internet Age
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Coolness! good instructions for trying Rails 3.0pre
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New Amazon Web Services feature: boot from EBS
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Playing with Chrome OS
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I am watching the live Chrome OS Webcast
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Hosted MongoDB and CouchDB
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nice: Rubymine 2.0 released
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MongoDB has good support for indexing and search, including prefix matching for AJAX completion lists
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How to install CouchDB + nginx + basic authentication on EC2, including a Ruby client
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"always on" MongoDB installation on my laptop
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Using nailgun for faster JRuby startup
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I just tried Amazon's new Relational Database Service (RDS)
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Securing your Mac laptop
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More getting stuff done by doing what I most want to do experiments
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RDF datastores are noSQL also - always keep an RDF data store service running
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Cloud computing options and portability
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Switching an AppEngine project from JRuby+Sinatra to Java+JSP
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I built the open source IDEA 9.0 git snapshot - works fine
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Nice tool for writing and maintaining documentation: YMUL web service and yumlcmd Ruby gem
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Some frustration with JRuby + Rails on Google AppEngine
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Designing for scalability and platform portability
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Storing Lucene indices in Cassandra; cloud versus running your own server farm
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Interesting new book: "Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World"
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Using Facebook Connect just got a lot easier
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Nice: RubyMine 2.0 will be a free upgrade
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My DevX article "Using Gambit-C Scheme to Create Small, Efficient Native Applications" is now online
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Adventures of living in the mountains: heavy monsoon rains and flooding
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I just read the text for Obama's speech to school kids: it is non-political and strong on American values
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Very much liking Amazon EC2
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Giving something back
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great video talk: "Innovation in Search and Artificial Intelligence"
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Easy installation is a form of elegance
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Notes on using PowerLoom with SBCL Common Lisp
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I have been very busy
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Yes! Google Java AppEngine Plugin is now available for Eclipse 3.5
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Good advice: enjoy whatever you are doing at the moment
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Google AppEngine and OpenID
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Tools: experiment with many, master a few of them
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If you have a Google Wave account, then try my Robot extension
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Have fun with the AMI containing the examples from my latest Ruby book
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Writing Wave robots that use blip titles and text
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Wave may end up being the new Internet coolness
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Google Wave gadgets
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Cool: just wrote my first Google Wave "robot" JSON web service
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Book project, Google Wave, and a kayaking video
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Gambit-C Scheme has become my new C
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Common Lisp RDFa parser and work on my new AllegroGraph book
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Measurement promotes success
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Continuing to work on my AllegroGraph book
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W3C killing off XHTML2 in favor of HTML5: bad for the Semantic Web?
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PragPub - free monthly magazine for developers
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My new APress book was released today: "Scripting Intelligence: Web 3.0 Information, Gathering and Processing"
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USA: return to 'robustness'
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Tough choice in the USA
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My Java AppEngine article published; my wife's video; more good experiences with Heroku
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ClioPatria semantic search web-server
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Opera Unite is an interesting idea
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Heroku: Rails hosting done right
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Google Translator Toolkit: wow!
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Ruby client for search and spelling correction using Bing's APIs
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I avoid installing software with sudo
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Chrome browser betas for OS X and Linux - very fast!
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Open source, the gift economy, and the new world order
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Scala really is a "better Java"
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Google's Wave platform
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Google's (eventual) support for RDFa
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My Ubuntu/OS X MacBook
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I just switched my MacBook over to Ubuntu
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I switched to using RubyMine for all of my Rails development
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Good article on the economies of scale
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My book is almost done
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'Getting Stuff Done', new Ubuntu 9.04, OS X
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Apache Mahout Scalable Machine Learning first public release
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Configuring nginx for both Rails and Tomcat
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IntelliJ does a fairly good job on supporting Scala Lift projects
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Lots of choices: managed hosting, EC2, App Engine; also unfair Sun criticism of App Engine's Java restrictions
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Good reading: Insoshi Rails source code
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I just tried the Java version of Google App Engine
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Bummer, I missed out on the Java for Google App Engine beta
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You never really know what technologies will win in the market place
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RubyMine 1.0 beta
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Amazon Elastic MapReduce
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Local Search and Rescue probably saved my life last Thursday
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Sun, Amazon, and cloud computing
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Happenings at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: this is what we need to see more of!
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Very nice: new Rails Magazine
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Very cool: compiling JRuby classes to Java classes
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Big Agriculture Business and Congress up to no good: criminalizing home and community gardens
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Beta Safari 4.0 web browser is fast
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Google’s canonical link tag
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The Sinatra web app DSL rocks
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Bruce Perens on the GNU Affero General Public License
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Web 3.0: not just Semantic Web and Linked Data, also interop on languages and platforms
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More work on migrating to Ruby 1.9.1
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More notes on switching my development system to Ruby 1.9.1
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Overcoming a psychological hurdle: switching my development system to use Ruby 1.9.1 by default instead of Ruby 1.8.6
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Google Gears with GMail, Google Reader, and Google Docs
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Monetizing Twitter and Facebook
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) web based console. The economy and IT.
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Very cool: Google's Picasa client is now available for OS X
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Amazon S3 and EC2 are awesome
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Merb and Rails merge
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I am very much enjoying learning Haskell
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How far can corporate oversight reform go? Fix our agriculture industry?
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Best chicken, ever
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Haskell it is
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Good article on adding security to Semantic Web applications
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Something fun: new book project on the Semantic Web using AllegroGraph
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Giving up on just using one IDE
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My new book "Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming in Java" is available in print and as a free PDF download
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Don't repeat yourself: for code, sure, but how about for data?
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Good Ruby support in IntelliJ 8.0
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Bad news: I did not get to read "The Reasoned Schemer" this morning. Good news: no lines at my polling place today!
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Cool: JetBrain's new RubyMine
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Complaints about Ruby memory use: false?
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My Merb DevX article is online
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Charming and useful: Tim O'Reilly's conversation with Yossi Vardi
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Cool: OS X version of Mono 2.0 released
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I converted RubyPlanet.net to Ruby + Merb
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Wow, Merb really is fast
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MerbCamp 2008 wrapup
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MerbCamp 2008
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Swi-Prolog and the Semantic Web
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Trying to find a single Java web application framework
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Odd but fun: online avatars
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Looking for reviewers for my book "Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java"
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Inspirational: David Heinemeier Hansson's keynote talk at RailsConf
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Very cool: PracTex online magazine for LaTex users
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Space4J: similar to Prevayler but takes advantage of Java 1.6 concurrent data access APIs
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Extracting text from a documents
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Distributed robust system for provenance and trust in Semantic Web Applications and Tim Berners-Lee's new World Wide Web Foundation
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I'll be at MerbCamp in San Diego October 11-12
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Rails, Trails, Lift, and Seaside
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Very useful book: "LaTeX Graphics Companion, The (2nd Edition) (Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting)"
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Java arrays and primitive types should (perhaps) be deprecated
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Just out: my DevX article on Semantic Web, Sesame with Java and JRuby
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Wanted: authors for my 'virtual publishing' business
-
New version of my KBtextmaster NLP library is available
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More use of Eclipse and Mylyn: new book project using Latex
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Eclipse Mylyn: a show-changer?
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New cuil.com search site and other alternative search engines
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Open data sources like Metaweb, Wikipedia, and SEC Edgar database
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Dynamic language 'goodness': comparing JRuby and Java Semantic Web example programs
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Programming for small devices
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I am evaluating Google's Protocol Buffers for my knowledgebooks.com KB_bundle product
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OpenDS 1.0 LDAPv3 server
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A trip down memory lane: Pascal development
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Great tools: the Java advantage
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Good news: Microsoft to support ODF as default Word file format
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PLT Scheme v4.0 is released
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Ruby on Rails 2.1 and the MagLev Ruby virtual machine
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"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull": Cate Blanchett steals the show
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Packaging Java libraries to be "IDE friendly"
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Scala and the Lift web applicaton framework
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Book review: "Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist"
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Programming: sometimes simpler is better
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I am back from 14 days of travelling in Northern Mexico
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Using JSON for communicating between Ruby and Lisp or Scheme
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New Google Web App Engine
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National Public Radio: "Our Confusing Economy, Explained" - excellent!
-
Blu-ray and Java vs. DVDs
-
Book review: "Building SOA-Based Composite Applications Using NetBeans IDE 6"
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Minimum number of languages that a developer should master?
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Advantages of open source: quickly working around problems
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C++, taking a second look
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Excellent video: Dan Ingalls demos Lively Kernel at Google
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My Spanish4.us web portal
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Ruby becoming a first class language on Mac OS X
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Importance of understanding business and sales issues; dynamc languages
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Ruby client code for accessing OpenCalais and Metaweb/Freebase web services
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Heavy weight Javascript client applications vs. lighter weight AJAX
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Microsoft live.com, Yahoo attempted buyout
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My DevX article "Real-Life Rails: Develop with NetBeans, Deploy on Linux"
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IBM's Project Zero
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NetBeans 6.1 development build: almost there for my work
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PostgreSQL 8.3 on OS X: I like the full text indexing/search features
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Snowing in Sedona Arizona
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XMPP (Jabber)
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Getting Things Done: a perspective from a work at home programmer
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I finally tried Ruby 1.9 (developer's release)
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More TV/Internet convergence: Hulu.com
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I updated CookingSpace.com - now shows nutrients for meals and daily meal plans
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Yes, tools matter
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Ruby and Java integration
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Ruby on Rails Fixed Price Quick Start Service
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RIP Bobby Fischer
-
Wow: a Java application with 25 megabytes of JAR files
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A Tale of 3 IDEs
-
The great static vs. dynamic typing debate
-
Nicholas Carr is correct re: world wide computing cloud
-
Cool: Common Lisp Elephant object persistence package
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NetBeans 6.0 Visual Web Pack: not ready, but looks promising
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Plone 3: nice!
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Scala programming language
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2008 predictions
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Very cool: backing up Google Office documents and outsourcing infrastructure
-
Consulting and working at home: when does the work day end?
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Hiding source code: so bad!
-
I am updating CookingSpace.com to Rails 2.0.x
-
Back online after my vacation
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Google's view of UI development: do it in Java
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Quality Open Source: Squeak 3.9 final and new Seaside 2.8
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Software development: smaller is better
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OS X Leopard
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ZFS: disuptive technology?
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NetBeans 6.0 beta 2 is released
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Ruby debuggers
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Netbeans IDE 6.0 Beta 1: (J)Ruby and Rails support is looking good; mixed experience with IntelliJ 7.0 + Ruby plugin
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"100% Rails all the way, baby!"
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It is important to check web sites and web applications for usability by readers with disabilities
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Wow: what a difference caching makes!
-
Joost: Internet TV done the right way
-
More fun with JRuby: using the PowerLoom reasoning system
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Good PDF book: "Ferret" by David Balmain
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Plain text and other simple document types
-
I am loving Amazon's new MP3 musc store
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"Why would you use Ruby when you could use Smalltalk???"
-
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not crazy, but his speech irritated me today
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Interesting article on graph/lattice theory leads me to a good looking library
-
Glassfish v2: Update Center and port 4848 Web Admin are cool, but...
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Programming languages: advantages of both specialization and being a generalist
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Great combination: nginx, Mongrel, and Rails for secure HTTPS
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JRuby and Jython: a one way street?
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1. Shameful behavior: ruining our grandchildren's lives because of our generation's greed 2. a story about my Grandmother
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The New York Times 'gets it'
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Chris Petrilli's second brain
-
Classic "slip of the tongue"
-
IBM's support for OpenOffice.org is important
-
Good book: "Programming Collective Intelligence"
-
Gambit-C Scheme 4.0 final released today
-
Erlang 'mindshare'
-
Franz Allegro Common Lisp 8.1 has been released
-
"Getting Stuff Done" GMail FireFox plugin
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Adoption of GPL v3: looking good
-
The shoe-maker's family has no shoes?
-
Squeak Smalltalk 'goodness'
-
REST rules
-
Fiat currencies like the US dollar
-
Education is a life long path
-
I upgraded my open source projects to use version 3 of the GPL and LGPL today
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I revisted the scene of my 2/2/2006 accident today
-
My best Ruby coding hint
-
"Everything is Miscellaneous" - book review
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Why GPL version 3 is important
-
Hibernate Search: good integration of Lucene and Hibernate
-
Cool: Ruby Google GData client library
-
Fantasy that may likely come true: Prometeus (experience is the new reality)
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Using Lucene with JRuby
-
GMail PowerPoint file viewing
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Apple Safari for Windows
-
JRuby 1.0 released
-
Why the complaints over purchaser's name embedded in Apple's non-DRMed music?
-
Emacs 22.1 is released - first major update in 5 years
-
The URL for this blog has changed
-
Is the Common Lisp 'loop' macro evil?
-
Google Gears: a sea change for web applications?
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Why the ODF is better than Microsoft's document formats
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Data representations: the more the better
-
Use of arrays considered harmful?
-
Interesting technology: AllegroGraph
-
My article "A Java Developer's Guide to Ruby" was just published
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Deploying a Squeak + Seaside web application to a Linux server in 3 easy steps
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How much does web framework choice really matter?
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The Semantic Web, Parrots, and AI
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Landscape page layout orientation should be the new standard
-
Can't believe I missed this Unix utility: screen
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Review of Nokia N800 'web pad'
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Google Data APIs
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Interesting way to build rich client web applications: mjt
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Less is more: advantages of compact programming languages
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GWT and Seaside: steps in the right direction for increasing developer productivity
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Balancing the use of Open Source (especially GPL) and proprietary software
-
Apollo alpha released to developers: offline enabled web applications
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Factor
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metaweb.com and freebase.com
-
Trip down memory lane: I installed Minix 3 tonight
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I have released some NLP (natural language processing) tools with a LGPL license
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Integrating PHP and Ruby with Java server side deployments
-
Future of programming and IT jobs
-
Google Guice: probable affects on my development methodology
-
Being a good web citizen
-
New version of my free web book "The Software Development Book"
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I took another look at Grails
-
Very best tools to work with
-
Lunch with an opponent from the 1978 US Chess Open
-
Automating the technical writing process
-
Source code for FastTag released - free for non-commercial use
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Struts 2 release
-
Lunch time walk in "our back yard"
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Source code releases for my commercial products
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Source code for commercial products and social responsibility
-
Google Apps Premier Edition: seems like a slam dunk decision for small companies
-
More on Internet video: Joost.com
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Internet Video
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Ruby 2.0 svn trunk with Yarv
-
The "ergonomics" of Java programming
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OpenOffice.org/StarOffice market penetration only 0.3% ?
-
Am I the only one who uses the old LGPL MySQL Java driver?
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ODF - open document format
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Java + AJAX in 18 lines
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Virtualization is changing how we deploy and how we manage old software systems
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Not being able to work at a desk, and: Intel Macs + Parallels = perfect for development
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Semantic Web: through the back door with HTML and CSS
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Heavy weight Javascript + AJAX vs. very light weight CSS + DHTML
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Convention over configuration in Java web apps
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True confession: programming in Javascript and loving it
-
What to do to survive the recession? Build wealth
-
New York Times advice: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
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Using the Dojo Javascript library in Ruby Rails
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The genius of Jerry Weinberg
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Suggestion for PC manufacturers
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Long term prediction: Microsoft loses its monoply power
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Nutch: a platform is born
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My take on Microsoft/Linux patent issues
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JRuby 0.9.2
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Getting around problems with Apple's iTunes DRM
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Correction: Google SOAP Search APIs
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Web services as a business
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Google search API: rest in peace
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I updated RubyPlanet.net this weekend
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DRM and (Un)Trusted Computing: really a big deal?
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Public web applications and knowledge workers
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Java JDK6: bundling web services, embedded database, etc.
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Eclipse Mylar: automating context manangement for work tasks
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out of the hospital and back online
-
AJAX tools for multiple development platforms
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'Perfect' Mac OS X backup procedure
-
Offshoring vs. increasing the number of H1-B visas
-
Ha! Compare Nintendo Wii to Sony PS3 rollouts!
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New World Order: things that will effect its outcome
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GPL license for Java
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Pricing of Microsoft Windows Vista
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Some dissatisfaction with Ruby
-
Democratic mandate: investigate corruption
-
Vacation in Utah: Capitol Reef, Bryce, and Zion national parks
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VAR agreement with Franz
-
Very good: Democracy - Internet TV Platform
-
More on personal information management
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Be willing to pay a small price for freedom
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And the winner is...Linux Desktop!
-
More on web based office tools: Gliffy.com
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"Google Office"
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Human minds, programming, and the "caching problem"
-
Quicktime movies playing on Ubuntu Linux that do not play on Windows XP
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Praise for older software
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North Korea. Economies of Japan vs. USA
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Java + AJAX : IntelliJ 6 + GWT a great combination
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A bit of history, the Slackware 11 release, and software power
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Best technical writing software?
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Persistence for object oriented languages vs. programmer efficiency
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JRuby
-
Apple just lost a sale - Steve Jobs is no longer on my good guy list
-
Is the upcoming ABC whitewash of 9/11 events a failure of public trust?
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Disconnect between thinking about a problem and programming
-
Startups
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Linux vs. Windows and OS X: it is the economy that will be the driving factor
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Open source, free, and commercial software
-
I started a new blog just on AI theory
-
Writely has started accepting new accounts
-
Indie Game Development, AI in games
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OpenCyc 1.0, AI in general
-
How much more productive is using Latex rather than Word or OpenOffice?
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Globally unique identifiers
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Yes languages affect our thoughts, even in programming
-
Criticism of non-dynamic languages
-
Dissent: the finest of American traditions
-
Secrets to living a happy life
-
Good point: disinformation and the Semantic Web
-
Why I have not been blogging about the latest war in the Middle East
-
Is India blocking my blog and all others on blogspot.com?
-
Good concert
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Quality of life, technology, and ecology
-
Windows Genuine Advantage
-
21 years with Emacs; streamlining writing/publishing with LaTex
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Incredible what a few lines of Ruby code will do
-
30 minute lesson on the Middle East
-
New version 350 of PLT Scheme
-
A good free Ruby book/tutorial
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So, how are they making money on this?
-
More work combining Ruby and Common Lisp
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A simpler, more directed Microsoft under Ray Ozzie
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Meta object protocol in Lisp and Ruby
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Comparing Google's Picasa Web to Flickr
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Different doument types, different work flows
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Saving time with Ruby and ActiveRecord
-
Yes, the world is probably a safer place
-
A sad day for the U.S.
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Wow! Google Spreadsheet web app: very cool!
-
I am on Microsoft's side on this one
-
New PowerLoom site
-
Interesting product: AllegroCache
-
Dealing with Knowledge Artifacts that are still in paper form
-
The Da Vinci Code
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Will Java JRE be installed by Linux distros by default? Is it too late for this to have a large impact?
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Google Web Toolkit
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The Lisp community needs to do this more often
-
I am back home
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Surgery Thursday - I will be offline for a few days
-
Integrating a semantic network with a reasoning system
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Why the ultra-rich should stop supporting Bush
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I sometimes forget how fast compiled Common Lisp is
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$19 for a more productive environment
-
Excellent: ABC's streaming TV shows
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What happens that major news is not reported?
-
IDEs: best of breed vs. 'good enough'
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Information: organization vs. overload
-
Suggestion for Bush and Congress over what to do about gas prices
-
Long term AI job: what language to use?
-
Protecting the IT infrastructure and competitiveness of the U.S.
-
Oracle making their own Linux distro?
-
Web application integration
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Owning your own business
-
Working backwards on the Semantic Web
-
Disney-ABC start to get it
-
What about your $27,000 debt?
-
Interesting: Bill Gate's work flow; knowledge management
-
Matz on Ruby's Lisp heritage
-
Rails 1.1 released
-
I enabled comments on my blog
-
Managed code, Microsoft dropping .Net from Vista implementation
-
We *really* need semantic attributes on web links
-
Great article on Java performance
-
Privacy issues vs. very useful web portals like GMail, Yahoo Calendar, etc.
-
googlepages.com is starting to come online
-
Yes, Ruby is ready for the Enterprise
-
Blue Ray and HD-DVD; Amazon S3 storage
-
Useful tool for searching millions of RSS feeds; some of my own projects
-
Feeling of relief: switching back to OpenOffice.org from Word
-
I wish there were more commercial apps for Linux
-
Flickr and Netflix web portals, etc.
-
I finally converted from CVS to Subversion
-
Ruby 'duck typing' addiction
-
Microchunks: short online media clips
-
Wonderful mix of functional and logic programming
-
Switching markwatson.com to Rails (with some Java)
-
European effort to compete with Google/Yahoo, and local open source advocacy
-
Mongrel: interesting alternative to WEBrick
-
Ruby duck typing
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Life, New Google Desktop and Netflix
-
Apache vs. lighttpd vs. WEBrick
-
My hiking accident, virtualization, and DRM
-
Glad that Google is supporting the Mac with GMail notifier and Google Earth
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Google Linux
-
Yikes! Criticizing something without understanding it
-
Microsoft Word's master document support sucks; ancient archeological sites
-
Large overhead for consultants: agreeing to contract terms
-
Yahoo and Google (on Slashdot): rooting for underdogs
-
Sony e-Book with electronic paper
-
Fun: Flickr slide shows
-
DRM, Apple's Music Store, Google Video
-
Carville and Begala: yes!!
-
I must have been crazy using Linux on my desktop
-
Rich clients and web applications
-
Conservative Patrick Buchanan also gets it right
-
'smartest man alive' gets it right.
-
Great: a free online version of Diestel's Graph Theory book
-
Google Video: bad, or what?
-
Quality of information vs. hot news
-
More on link types and the Semantic Web
-
Are Apple laptops a good deal?
-
Blue-ray and HD-DVD: I think DVD is here for the long term
-
Lack of Linux client support by Google and Yahoo
-
Kurt Vonnegut: Human beings will be happier only when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again
-
Easing into the Semantic Web
-
A trip down memory lane: I have a Prolog programming job
-
A novel search engine application
-
The world is getting more peaceful
-
New open source project: Ruby Message System
-
Great commentary by Mark Shields
-
Java and Ruby integration
-
flickr: coolest web portal?
-
RubyPlanet.net is done (for now)
-
Moving to more collaborative web applications
-
Efficient use of time, getting things done
-
RubyPlanet.NET - all things Ruby
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World peace: yes it is possible
-
I have a new book contract
-
Back from Belize
-
I am going to be offline for a few weeks
-
Best paper on Ruby on Rails
-
This guy gets it right: Java language extensions hurt the platform
-
Cornucopia complex, Ruby on Rails vs. Java and Lisp
-
Updated version of my "Practical AI Programming in Java" free web book
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I just added PDF and RTF export to KBdocs.com
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MIT's $100 laptop
-
Tomcat, Ruby on Rails, and Araneida
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Partnering and forming a Corporation
-
Interesting artificial intelligence problem
-
Possible privacy concerns, but I like Google's personal search
-
Intel Macs running OS X, Linux, and Windows
-
Excellent: official Java support for system tray functionality
-
A la cart media purchases will lead to higher quality in TV and movies
-
What a difference a day makes
-
Latest Java Trails version 0.8 looks very cool
-
Microsoft's Live.com
-
Poor product: Sony Network Walkman NW-E95: poor MP3 support
-
Great Java open source project: Nutch search engine
-
Good update: RadRails 0.4 released today
-
Efficiency (or lack of) in Java reflection: glad we have it anyway
-
I add spell checking/correcting to KBdocs.com online word processor
-
WebSphere Community Edition: not available until the end of the year
-
Classic computer science text and papers on the web
-
KBdocs.com updated: added document export and search (or: sometimes it is good to be lazy)
-
New web app for editing rich text documents (or: Rails vs. Java saga continues)
-
Rife with automatic CRUD scaffolding worth looking at
-
Great interview with Brent Scowcroft
-
Getting back to simplicity
-
Side by side comparison of Ruby on Rails vs. JSP + JavaBeans
-
The more things stay the same: distributed tuple space toolkits like Jini
-
Code generation wizards: Ruby on Rails vs. Microsoft (and dynamic programming languages)
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My notes on using RadRails for Eclipse + Ruby on rails development
-
Our Java portal for recipes is almost feature complete
-
Sharing and the gift economy
-
Nice business model: Intergalactic Medicine Show
-
Really bad decision over NASA's funding
-
Easy update of Ubuntu Linux to new release
-
Ruby tools improving
-
SOA and OpenOffice.org
-
User's perspective on web services like del.icio.us and GMail: running stateless
-
Writing my own message board for second time in 2 years
-
Oracle buying InnoDB owner
-
I am back from vacation
-
Predicting the Future: Linux vs. Windows
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Predicting the future: Google vs. Microsoft
-
Reading code and tech papers
-
Better power management under Linux than Windows XP
-
Automating development tasks ...
-
Matter of attitude: switching between Windows, Linux, and OS X
-
Where is Apple's iPod/cellphone?
-
That does it - I am going to sell my Microsoft stock
-
Extending the Windows shell to explore JAR files
-
Peter Norvig and Joseph Campbell
-
new web portal, some interesting implementation details
-
Best movie of the year: "The Constant Gardener"
-
I moved CJsKitchen.com to a much faster server
-
MySQL optimizations; free Opera browser license
-
My IntelliJ review was not well received
-
Great book on DHTML/Javascript
-
We are rebranding our new web portal to CJsKitchen.com
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The "Mom software modification"
-
Great George Orwell quotes
-
Fast progress on kbrecipes.com
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Great (and free) Lisp programming environment
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Efficient capital markets
-
beta version of KBrecipes.com is available
-
Google: Desktop 2 beta, $4B for implementing my idea
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Windows vs. Linux on Slashdot; plain text
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I upgraded to version 5 of IntelliJ
-
OK, HSQLDB is cool after all
-
For Java developers: case study of the utility of dynamic languages
-
I am still looking for the best database solution for web apps
-
Free (and good!) picture story for young kids
-
Not sure about Sun's Glassfish J2EE stack project
-
JBoss vs. GlueCode, web frameworks
-
ancient software
-
"What's a promise worth in America?", or: our new Corporate Overlords, part 2
-
"Standard" way to add RDF meta data to web sites
-
"A Housing Boom Built on Folly"
-
A fun waste of time: web browsing with new PSP firmware update
-
Semantic Web, Bosworth's MySQL conference talk, etc.
-
Disruptive web technologies
-
More on the Seaside web framework
-
Seaside might be the best web application framework for small scale web applications
-
Kai-Fu Lee's move from Microsoft to Google
-
Cleaned up my KnowledgeBooks.com site
-
Good comparison of Struts/Hibernate vs. Ruby on Rails
-
Why Windows irritates me
-
Full circle: EJB 3.0
-
Metadata: we hardly knew you...
-
I am finally using JDK 1.5 (Java 5) language features in production code
-
The US/China embrace
-
I am actually enjoying writing a JFC application
-
Everything belongs in a source code control or content management system
-
Is language oriented programming the next paradigm shift?
-
Code refactoring and cleaning out the garage
-
Open sourcing GlueCode
-
The Middle Path
-
Making time for personal projects
-
Hibernate Developer Wizard
-
Joy of Ubuntu Linux on my laptop - bad show for PC vendors not supplying Windows install CDs
-
Sometimes it takes an 'expert' to screw things up
-
Use of only a single programming language considered harmful
-
Rethinking DRM
-
How Open Media Network differs from BitTorrent, etc.
-
Open Media Network: very cool
-
Matt Raible's AppFuse - good stuff
-
Microsoft's Visual J# 2005 edition
-
Working for money vs. working on stuff we love
-
I am working on the Jaffa LGPLed project
-
My 'Ruby network programming' article is up on DevX
-
Yahoo and iTunes online music stores
-
Sun expanding overseas
-
OASIS Open Document Standard
-
Strange advantages of using Windows XP
-
Dude, I got a Dell
-
Security update makes Java unusable on OS X
-
My new career playing the didgeridoo?
-
Liferay: open source CMS/portal: looks good
-
This is why Free Software works!
-
I released my open source Ruby part of speech tagger and text categorizer
-
Very useful: links to PyCon 2005 papers
-
My DevX article on Lucene was just published
-
renewed interest in neural networks?
-
Easy way to run Tomcat on port 80 (not as root)
-
More on Sony PSP
-
I bought a Sony PSP today
-
Compromises: Apple's Music Store
-
LOL: Ruby on Rails vs. J2EE pontification
-
Reports of Java developers becoming addicted to Ruby programming
-
NetBeans 4.1 beta: UI builder, etc.: wow!
-
Open Source as a business done right: SugarCRM
-
SWT and Java: a good combination
-
Best of breed vs. general purpose tools
-
new free Enhydra J2EE stack available
-
I open sourced my Java KBtextmaster project
-
I restored my open source web page
-
I wish that this was written in Java
-
Why P2P like Bit-Torrent needs legal protection
-
Pushing Java back into the background for web applications
-
Java Trails, Ruby Rails
-
Is the dollar 'being dropped'?
-
Legislating against municipal broadband: let the corruption begin
-
CORBA, SOA, Semantic Web
-
Real patriotism; paper on oil/economic warfare against the US
-
Hey, my computer is bothering me while I am working
-
Dowser: cool clustering search tool
-
Java code is running faster than equivalent C++ code
-
Coolest thing in the FSF online store
-
Now both SWI-Prolog and XPCE are LGPL
-
Qt GPLed for Windows
-
Very useful: PyDev on Eclipse
-
Installing Eclipse 3.01 on PowerPC Ubuntu Linux
-
Sweet: Ubuntu Linux on an iBook
-
Linux TCO vs. Windows TCO
-
I did not intend to rag on Apache, BSD, etc. licenses last night
-
Open Source vs. Free Spoftware: brown nosing vs. doing what is right
-
Feels good: donating to FSF, Debian, Ubuntu
-
Ubuntu Linux: yes, it rocks!
-
Tomcat v.5.5.7 for JDK 1.5. Also: JDK 1.5 vs GNU Java
-
Patent threats to US IT industry and my ability to earn a living
-
Using WingIDE for a GPLed project; Java vs. Python IDEs
-
Ubuntu Linux: job well done
-
good read: "Free Software Magazine"
-
Love BitTorrent for Linux distros; why not for 'Indy' TV productions?
-
I wish I had written this :-)
-
Disappointed with Sun's terms on 'patent sharing' with open source
-
Easy GNU gcj Java native compiler install on OS X
-
New paradigms for web app development
-
Open publishing of scientific research papers
-
Solid J2EE applications
-
OS X + Linux: perfect combo! Also: request for advice on SuSE Linux dedicated server providers
-
Tomcat for Java, CheryPy for Python web apps?
-
I have finally switched to Java 5 language features for new development
-
Why don't more customers want to save money with Open Source development?
-
Has Novell screwed up SuSE Linux?
-
The best Java CMS system
-
Updated my white paper "Jumpstarting the Semantic Web"
-
Interesting stuff on Semantic Web; my idea that I am going to hash out
-
US food imports at an all time high? WTF!
-
Updated version of "The Software Development Book for Java Developers" available on my web site
-
Source code for demos; future commercial and Free Software projects
-
IBM, patents, open source
-
API Javadocs for my KBtextmaster product
-
Legal uses for BitTorrent; suggestions for TV networks
-
Web app development work: plain Tomcat vs. JBoss?
-
Love PayPal - perfect tool for consultants and 'small time' software venders
-
Great source for free online AI research papers
-
Admitting bad habits
-
Something really nice
-
Java trick for reading OpenOffice.org files
-
Perhaps it is time to sell the last of my Microsoft stock
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Having fun in San Diego
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Combining Java with other languages
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Lisp vs. Java products, ant build process
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Cut down the trees: payoff to political cronies
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I may be Java developer, but...
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Oh, the crap they try to feed us
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Open file formats and AbiWord 2.2.2 for OS X
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Great! a web site for home/amateur movies
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Lisp world: the old and the new
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Supporting infrastructure for nurturing creativity
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Why should the USA have to be a net importer of food? And, starving children.
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NetBeans 4. Free vs. commercial development tools.
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OS X 10.3.7 upgrade: wowza!
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I think that I will buy a PlayStation Portable (when available in the US)
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Too cool: a 'Comic Book' to teach you Lisp (online web site)
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Most productive programming languages and platforms
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How much productivity is lost due to Microsoft software?
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I really appreciate Google Adsense ads
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Authoring plain web pages vs. Semantic web pages
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Weird: so now Alan Greenspan and I are in agreement?
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Apache Daisy CMS sytem
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Magnolia v2 Java-based Content Management System
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Distributed knowledge workers
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Dumping on our kids and grandchildren: raising the national debt limit
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Semantic Web: replace RDF storage with relational database?
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My free advice to Steve Jobs: movie equivalent for iTunes music store
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Simplified EJB 3.0 specification: still not sure how much I will use it
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Using Firefox client, server side Java for a standard platform
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Excellent summary of Bush economic policy
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A great software demo; tools for creating demo movies
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Hypertext and Knowledge Management: personal history
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Positive Media Workshop
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Ongoing education: something a little different
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Easy cross platform RPC
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Congratulations Julie!!
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Java Wiki tools
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100,000 Excess Civilian Iraqi Deaths Since War
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Cool: free music CD in November WiRED Magazine
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OpenCroquet improvements: coming fast
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Visiting San Diego - I just saw a large screen iMac
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Why doesn't Alan Greenspan level with us about the economy?
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Write once, compile and run everywhere
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Great New York Times article
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Good book: The Definitive Guide to Plone; my AI products
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"It's just the bats, Madam"
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Croquet is released
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I visited the Arcosanti archology last night
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the intellectual exercise of figuring out the world
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OpenCroquet announcement and paradigm shifts
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Waiting for free software releases
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GMail is getting better and I am really enjoying Clusty
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Second brilliant thing I have seen today: Rich Hickey's Lisplets
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Brilliant: article about database wrappers in Python
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My email to Microsoft requesting OOo file format support as a standard feature for Word
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A great article by Senator John McCain on courage and social responsibility
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Small and nimble: small but valuable companies in the future
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Automatically sorting out "Java blog entries" from "non Java blog entries"
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Major update to one of the best AI programming languages and platforms: Swi-Prolog
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Good thing: European OSCE commision to monitor U.S. elections in November
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Use the right tools for a job: platform choice vs. available open source projects
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Why don't we call 'tax cuts' 'tax deferments'?
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One of my favorite things about Java: packaging both code and data in JAR files
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Getting people to think
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Amazon's A9.com search portal is cool
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Being an OS X user I forgot about the hassles of Windows and Linux
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Demand for U.S. Treasury Notes by foreign banks at a historic low
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AI research at Microsoft: question answering system
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Budget deficit is $422 billion - or $571 billion counting borrowing from social security
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Java article, SOAP, XML-RPC
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Kerry and Bush: keeping fairly quiet about urgent economic problems
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Why do I have to read foreign news to get accurate information on my country's economy?
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Tailoring web apps to use FireFox; comments on Open Source
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JDK 1.5
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Russell gets it right
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Why Open Source will win in the Knowledge Management and Document Management space
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Sometimes I change my mind: Dave Pollard on free trade
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Automatic add-on module installs with PLT Scheme, Squeak, etc.
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Google file system, large scale architectures, Smalltalk Open Croquet
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Outsourcing (Slashdot), and why we will hopefully not have food shortages in the U.S.
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What is up with people setting CLASSPATH?
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Slashdot: Why is Java un-cool?
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Tomcat as an application platform: enjoy the simplicity
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Calling 'return' in a JSP, avoiding sendRedirect(...) problems
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Using GMail to keep track of competition
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Archiving data (semantic web, business, etc.) in XML
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I am back from traveling to my niece's wedding
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Some people 'really get it'
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3D graphics with Squeak Smalltalk and LispWorks Common Lisp
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The End of Oil
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Software patents: eventually giving the edge to the third world?
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ACM articles on haptics
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Why it is OK for Republicans to vote for Kerry
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PDF files should be offered in two formats for 'laptop viewing'
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I prefer writing server side web apps - that is why I like Java
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Corporate owned news media has voted: Bush wins!
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IntelliJ 4.5: tasty!
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OpenOffice 1.1.2 available for Mac OS X
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Building gcc-3.4.1 from source: Java gcj
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IntelliJ 4.0
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I am back from Alaska
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SOAP vs. XML-RPC vs. REST
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Fahrenheit 9/11: skillfully done: I recommend it to both Democrats and Republicans
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Outsourcing time zone advantages, reverse outsourcing
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Trying the NetBeans 4.0 developer build
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Java and Mono
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Sun's Java Studio Creator, other web app development tools
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U.S. cronyism in Iraq
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Sun's Java Studio Creator for Mac OS X
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OpenOffice batch Microsoft Office document converter
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Eric Clapton: a good guy!
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Computers: low power better than faster?
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The bad effects of the news business
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Sometimes you just need commercial software development tools
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Squeak Smalltalk: almost as good as Lisp for experimental programming
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Using Java applets for UIs for Lisp applications, and web apps in general
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The death of an Open Source Project
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Web apps, Microsoft, Mozilla/Firefox
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If you only read one news article for the rest of this year
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No Evidence Connecting Iraq to Al Qaeda, 9/11 Panel Says
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My flat screen monitor: the parrot perch
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High value of informal code inspections, even for single developers
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Google News, 'real paper' newspapers
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Why I love Java: somethings are so easy to do...
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Very cool: Loom Knowledge Representation System is open sourced
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Free J2EE 1.4 stack: JOnAS 4.1
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More on commodity hardware and software
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My Slashdot posts on being interviewed at Google
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Complexity of Java code for reading OpenOffice.org documents vs. Microsoft documents
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Open document formats: anyway to force Microsoft to use unencumbered formats?
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Google, GMail, Microsoft...
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Best hack award: NeoOffice/J: using Java to get OpenOffice.org running without X11
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Could be the best editorial of 2004 (so far)
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Fed has increased money in circulation (M3) by levels usually only used in a dire crisis
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Optimistic Optimization
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Sun's new pricing models
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Memorial Day fun
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Server side Java: less is more?
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How to increase our national security
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cheap hardware and free software: disruptive technologies
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I turned off my old blog service at knowledgebooks.com
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I am appreciating JavaScript more
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Economy: short term view is mandated by politics
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Paper on extensible languages
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UPI: Amnesty International Report: really sad
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Writing custom JSP tag libraries: yeah, like cleaning out the garage
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New Springer-Verlag catalog: 9 new books on the Semantic Web
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MSNBC: "General is said to have urged use of dogs"
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Still loving the Prevayler Java object persistence framework
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Microsoft's Office and web services plan; risks of proprietary formats
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New version of Protégé Ontology editor, and other semantic web tools
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PBS news: perfect response to Bush's B.S. speech
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Why not use SnipSnap on my own server?
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