Sitemap - 2009 - Mark Watson’s Artificial Intelligence Books and Blog
My tech industry predictions for 2010
Building the EtherPad system and perusing the source code
Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is pretty cool
The cost of commoditization of computing: infrastructure and software
Privacy and Security in the Internet Age
Coolness! good instructions for trying Rails 3.0pre
New Amazon Web Services feature: boot from EBS
I am watching the live Chrome OS Webcast
How to install CouchDB + nginx + basic authentication on EC2, including a Ruby client
"always on" MongoDB installation on my laptop
Using nailgun for faster JRuby startup
I just tried Amazon's new Relational Database Service (RDS)
More getting stuff done by doing what I most want to do experiments
RDF datastores are noSQL also - always keep an RDF data store service running
Cloud computing options and portability
Switching an AppEngine project from JRuby+Sinatra to Java+JSP
I built the open source IDEA 9.0 git snapshot - works fine
Nice tool for writing and maintaining documentation: YMUL web service and yumlcmd Ruby gem
Some frustration with JRuby + Rails on Google AppEngine
Designing for scalability and platform portability
Storing Lucene indices in Cassandra; cloud versus running your own server farm
Interesting new book: "Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World"
Using Facebook Connect just got a lot easier
Nice: RubyMine 2.0 will be a free upgrade
My DevX article "Using Gambit-C Scheme to Create Small, Efficient Native Applications" is now online
Adventures of living in the mountains: heavy monsoon rains and flooding
great video talk: "Innovation in Search and Artificial Intelligence"
Easy installation is a form of elegance
Notes on using PowerLoom with SBCL Common Lisp
Yes! Google Java AppEngine Plugin is now available for Eclipse 3.5
Good advice: enjoy whatever you are doing at the moment
Tools: experiment with many, master a few of them
If you have a Google Wave account, then try my Robot extension
Have fun with the AMI containing the examples from my latest Ruby book
Writing Wave robots that use blip titles and text
Wave may end up being the new Internet coolness
Cool: just wrote my first Google Wave "robot" JSON web service
Book project, Google Wave, and a kayaking video
Gambit-C Scheme has become my new C
Common Lisp RDFa parser and work on my new AllegroGraph book
Continuing to work on my AllegroGraph book
W3C killing off XHTML2 in favor of HTML5: bad for the Semantic Web?
PragPub - free monthly magazine for developers
My Java AppEngine article published; my wife's video; more good experiences with Heroku
ClioPatria semantic search web-server
Opera Unite is an interesting idea
Heroku: Rails hosting done right
Google Translator Toolkit: wow!
Ruby client for search and spelling correction using Bing's APIs
I avoid installing software with sudo
Chrome browser betas for OS X and Linux - very fast!
Open source, the gift economy, and the new world order
Scala really is a "better Java"
Google's (eventual) support for RDFa
I just switched my MacBook over to Ubuntu
I switched to using RubyMine for all of my Rails development
Good article on the economies of scale
'Getting Stuff Done', new Ubuntu 9.04, OS X
Apache Mahout Scalable Machine Learning first public release
Configuring nginx for both Rails and Tomcat
IntelliJ does a fairly good job on supporting Scala Lift projects
Good reading: Insoshi Rails source code
I just tried the Java version of Google App Engine
Bummer, I missed out on the Java for Google App Engine beta
You never really know what technologies will win in the market place
Local Search and Rescue probably saved my life last Thursday
Sun, Amazon, and cloud computing
Happenings at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: this is what we need to see more of!
Very cool: compiling JRuby classes to Java classes
Big Agriculture Business and Congress up to no good: criminalizing home and community gardens
Beta Safari 4.0 web browser is fast
Bruce Perens on the GNU Affero General Public License
Web 3.0: not just Semantic Web and Linked Data, also interop on languages and platforms
More work on migrating to Ruby 1.9.1
More notes on switching my development system to Ruby 1.9.1
Google Gears with GMail, Google Reader, and Google Docs
Monetizing Twitter and Facebook
Amazon Web Services (AWS) web based console. The economy and IT.