• Open Source Available in Public Libraries

    Posted on December 16, 2003

    There’s an article at NewsForge about the effort that Bob Kerr has made to get open source software into public libraries. The article serves as a great example of how the challenges of promoting wider open source adoption can be overcome. Plus I think the cause itself is fantastic. Bob... [Read More]

  • Rapid Prototyping Approach to Software

    Posted on December 16, 2003

    I was getting ready a couple of blog posts on the topic of rapid prototyping, but decided instead to put the information on a permanent page on the Bitsplitter site. The information is apparently pretty randomly organized, but I still wanted to put it up. I think it’s a pretty... [Read More]

  • Idea Capture Devices

    Posted on December 16, 2003

    There’s an excellent article at Innovation Tools about methods used to capture ideas when they come to you. I think that most of the Palm based tools for capturing ideas are pretty underdeveloped. A while ago I was considering writing a Palm app to do something like the mind map... [Read More]

  • Freedom Technology Center

    Posted on December 15, 2003

    I just went over to see Damjan Lampret present the work on OpenRISC at the Freedom Technology Center. The presentation was great, it gave lots of info about the project that it’s hard to get (as a software weenie) trying to just look at the stuff up at OpenCores about... [Read More]

  • More Kneejerk RFID Reactions

    Posted on December 15, 2003

    There’s a post over at LOOSEwire pointing to an article in the Washington Post about RFID being used in tags at The Internet Summit. It strikes me as Reporters without Borders just fearmongering, using the common pain point of RFID to drum up some sympathy. RFID has gotten so much... [Read More]

  • Intel's Study of Wireless Effects

    Posted on December 15, 2003

    There’s an article at Network World Fusion pointing to some information released by Intel about how much wireless has boosted their productivity. Umm.. this is the same Intel that’s waist deep in Centrino, its new chipset for wireless that it’s been pimping left and right? I find this to be... [Read More]

  • Vagablog 1.6

    Posted on December 15, 2003

    I’ve released the 1.6 version of Vagablog, which contains fixes for using accented characters with Blogger.com and an option to post without publishing. I’ve had trouble getting accented characters working in Wordpress and Movable Type however. I think the issue is actually with the tools, although I could be wrong.... [Read More]

  • Blogger Team at the San Fran Weblogger Meetup

    Posted on December 13, 2003

    After the horrid turnout of the last Weblog Meetup, I did a little web crawling and emailed the people that I could find who were signed up for the event. The results were great. In particular, Jason Shellen says that he’s getting as much of the Blogger crew as he... [Read More]

  • Web Services and Message Oriented Protocols

    Posted on December 13, 2003

    There’s an interview with Adam Bosworth over at ACM Queue, and it touches on some ideas I’ve had in relation to mobile application. There is a lot of stuff that I don’t agree with at all in that article, such as modeling of web services upon the web browser/web site... [Read More]

  • Open Office Calc Basic Tutorial

    Posted on December 13, 2003

    There’s an article at MozillaQuest.com describing how to do the basic spreadsheet formatting operations necessary to setup a simple table of text. Actually very usefull for me, cause I’ve never learned how to use a spreadsheet at all. The stuff there is really basic, and could be picked up in... [Read More]