Don’t just think outside the box… use it for kindling…
October 30, 2005
“No soup for yooo” — you remember the classic quote from Seinfeld (more quotes)! I was lucky enought to get a few bowls of the Soup Nazi’s soup before he closed up shop in NYC. As you might have heard, he’s opening stores here and there — one in Princeton! The chain is called The [...]
Take a quick look at upper-CASE plumbing via Rally. Throne reading here and here.
Ever feel like you just can’t keep up with the glut of info out there on the net? Technology to the rescue! The easy entry is a basic RSS reader (why not try GoogleReader). Once you get comfortable there, you can miss less with intelligent aggregators like Findory, Attensa, SearchFox, or PersonalBee. Still not enough [...]
Ever wanted to locate that photo that had that picture of Aunt Bertha? Riya can help! Its a software technology that is able to search your photo deck for people’s faces! Seriously!!! They’re working to embed it in the popular photo sites, but you can already have it look at your local photos.
Pull SwitchProxy and you’ve got any easy way to toggle proxy settings between your favorite proxied networks (e.g. school and everywhere else), but guess what — it makes for easy access to anonymous surfing! Get details for the later here.
Wahoo! nxqld is an Apache module for accessing Sleepycat DB XML via Soap or Xml:DB! They’ve got a killer implementation of XQuery and scale beyond both eXist and Xindice.
Hats off to this not-so-garden-variety photography hacker! Check out his site on in-flight insect photography. Look through the series and be amazed… Here’s another interesting site employing a much simpler time-lapsed photography setup – quite a range of backyard critters. Here’s a good aggregate reference on bug pics if you want to learn more.
October 28, 2005
Trang is one of the best OSS alternatives. It actually hammers through some DTDs commercial products like XMLSpy chokes on.
October 27, 2005
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