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links for 2008-01-11

Javascript date parsing and formatting, Part 2

Good JavaScript date library

(tags: javascript date)
The Simplicity PHP Framework

Yeah, it’s another PHP framework. At the unexpected domain name antz29.com.

(tags: php framework)
Software Security Strategies

Gary McGraw on strategies for introducing software security to your organization.

(tags: security sdlc)
How Does Language Impact Framework Design?

(tags: framework java)

10 Jan 2008 del.icio.us comments off

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links for 2008-01-10

thoughts on ambient intimacy

we grieve.

(tags: ambientintimacy community)
TED | Talks | Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (video)

(tags: parenting)
How to measure the ROI of the college website? Step 2: set up a website dashboard

As with many things, measuring ROI of a web site is folly, but interesting ideas. Will explore the site more.

(tags: web highered metrics via:condonfnm)

09 Jan 2008 del.icio.us comments off

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links for 2008-01-09

STSC CrossTalk – Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow? – Jan 2008

“Computer Science … education is neglecting basic skills, in particular in the areas of programming and formal methods.” They’re right, but their Ada fanaticism amuses me.

(tags: education computerscience)

08 Jan 2008 del.icio.us comments off

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links for 2008-01-08

Charts | Worth a thousand words | Economist.com

“A good graphic can tell a story, bring a lump to the throat, even change policies. Here are three of history’s best”

(tags: graphics history tufte)
An Introduction to Ruby’s Enumerable Module

(tags: ruby)
Functional Javascript

(tags: functionalprogramming javascript)
Frozen Perl 2008

A local Perl event taking place in February. I hardly ever use Perl anymore, but I want to go to this.

(tags: perl)
Bill Gatesâ€™ last day at Microsoft (video)

“A video spoof shown during the CES 2008 keynote by Bill Gates about his last full day at Microsoft in July”

(tags: funny billgates microsoft video)
Head First Software Development

(tags: headfirst projectmanagement)
College recruiters go where the students are: online – The Boston Globe

“It’s not about staying ahead of the students, it’s about keeping up with them, but without seeming desperate to be hip” – good luck

(tags: marketing highered)

07 Jan 2008 del.icio.us comments off

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links for 2008-01-06

Google Scalability Conference Trip Report: MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets

(tags: google architecture mapreduce distributed)
Google Research Publication: BigTable

“Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers.”

(tags: architecture distributed google)

05 Jan 2008 del.icio.us comments off

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links for 2008-01-04

Pulse

Tool for managing Eclipse installations, now available for the Mac.

(tags: eclipse via:cotÃ©)

03 Jan 2008 del.icio.us comments off

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links for 2008-01-03

Whatâ€™s Your Consumption Factor?

Jared Diamond: “The world has serious consumption problems, but we can solve them if we choose to do so.” I am less optimistic.

(tags: politics environment cgs)
SqueakSource: YUI Library for Seaside

(tags: seaside yui)
strategy+business

Online magazine that appears to cover just what it says. I’ll take a look

(tags: business magazine)
Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast

I miss going deep into regular expressions. I mean, dammit, I’ve lost track of the difference between NFA and DFA. What’s gone wrong in my life?

(tags: regex perl via:timbray)

02 Jan 2008 del.icio.us comments off

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links for 2008-01-01

Scala the statically typed dynamic language

David Pollak starts making the case for Scala as a statically typed dynamic *language*, with many of the features we enjoy in dynamically typed languages like Ruby and Python.

(tags: scala dynamiclanguages)

31 Dec 2007 del.icio.us comments off

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links for 2007-12-29

Zotero: The Next-Generation Research Tool

Impressive Firefox extension for doing online research. This will be one to follow. Doesn’t look like it supports storage in the cloud, though. Yet.

(tags: firefox research via:aessa)
Twitter is good enough for the enterprise, if not the Enterprise

What he said. “Good enough” being the key point.

(tags: twitter enterprise enterprise2.0)

28 Dec 2007 del.icio.us 1 comment

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links for 2007-12-28

Announcing SunSpider 0.9

JavaScript performance benchmark

(tags: javascript performance)

27 Dec 2007 del.icio.us comments off

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