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A Fair Comparison of REST and WS-* using an Architectural Decision Framework: is the Debate Over?
via InfoQ Personalized Feed for Camilo Pino by Jean-Jacques Dubray on May 05, 2008
Olaf Zimmermann and his colleagues have developed a general Architectural Decision Framework. In this paper presented at WWW 2008, they demonstrate how this framework can be used to compare REST and WS-* an possibly end an almost decade long debate. By Jean-Jacques Dubray
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Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places)
via hackety org by why the lucky stiff on May 04, 2008
Despite all the clicking that has been done on a certain star.gif, I really don’t think Ruby is coming to Google’s App Engine. Google doesn’t have much of a toe in the Ruby scene and App Engine is clearly entrenched in Python technologies (such as Pypy and WSGI). Well, cripes.But, for my purposes, I am really enticed by App Engine, because it gives beginners a supremely cinchy way to make...
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OpenSolaris Indiana Released
via Slashdot by ScuttleMonkey on May 04, 2008
Lally Singh writes "The Linux-friendly OpenSolaris Indiana has been released! A new, modern package manager and all the goodies of Solaris: ZFS, DTrace, SMF, and Xen on a LiveCD that was designed for Linux users. 'Why use the OpenSolaris OS you ask? It's pretty simple, you'll find it full of unique features like the new Image Packaging System (IPS), ZFS as the default filesystem,...
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Google Experiments With Next Generation Image Search
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on April 27, 2008
Two Google scientists presented a paper (pdf embedded below) at the World Wide Web Conference in Beijing last week that outlines their vision for the future of image search. Notably, the new image search technology doesn’t just index text associated with an image in determining what’s in it. Google is now talking about using computers to analyze the stuff in photos, and using that to...
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Regulating Evolution: How Gene Switches Make Life [Scientific American Magazine]
via Scientific American by (author unknown) on May 04, 2008
At first glance, the list of animals could suggest any zoo. There’s an elephant, an armadillo, an opossum, a dolphin, a sloth, a hedgehog, big and small bats, a couple of shrews, some fish, a macaque, an orangutan, a chimpanzee and a gorilla--to name a few of the more familiar creatures. But this menagerie is not at all like any zoo that has been constructed before. There are no cages, no...
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NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS
via Slashdot by kdawson on April 29, 2008
eldavojohn writes "The design director of NYTimes.com, Khoi Vinh, recently answered readers' questions in the Times's occasional feature 'Ask the Times.' He was asked how the Web site looks so consistently nice and polished no matter which browser or resolution is used to access it. His answer begins: 'It's our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or...
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The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc.
via Hacker News by (author unknown) on April 29, 2008
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VisiCalc during the early days [w/pics]
via Hacker News by (author unknown) on April 29, 2008
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A 3D Exploration of Picasso's Guernica
via Hacker News by (author unknown) on April 29, 2008
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One Less Reason to visit Thailand?
via Hacker News by (author unknown) on April 29, 2008
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