In O’Reilly ONLamp Blog, Jeremy Jones blogs “Pretty much anything [Mac] has, Linux can do better.” Hogwash. Can we kill the zealotry? and points out: “Anything that Windows and Mac can do, Linux could do.”
Bill McGonigle announces the August meeting of the Dartmouth - Lake Sunapee Linux User Group, held as usual at Dartmouth College, Carson Hall, Room L01 from 7 - 9 PM. The main presentation will be “Usable Web Applications with Rails and AJAX,” presented by William Henderson-Frost.
“Will will present Greenout!, a new web application that’s focused [...]
David Goodger’s uploaded his “Code Like a Pythonista” presentation, shown at PyCon 2007 and OSCON and it is a great illustration of the philosophies and idioms that makes “pythonic” high praise of Python code.
A great saunter down memory lane is provided by CIO.com with “Dearly Departed: Companies and Products That Didn’t Deserve to Die” I sure recognize a lot of those logos…
One of my current client projects requires me to VPN into their establishment. Rather than have a second machine running Windows, I thought I’d try running VMWare using a dual-boot (WinXPPro/Fedora Core 6) machine. A recent Linux Magazine article by Jason Perlow, “Run Your Windows with VMWare” pointed out that VMWare can read a Windows [...]
July has found me working out more often and more consistently. One of the big challenges with staying on an exercise machine is the tedium. It is boring. I’ve found audiocasts have helped me pass the time, occupy my mind and make me feel the time spent is more worthwhile. This month and last, I’ve [...]
Marc Andreessen’s got a blog, entering its fifth week, and he’s been posting some great stuff. Lots of interesting insights, but useful links, too. Here’s a compendium of blog.pmarca.com: Essential HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, and miscellaneous cheatsheets. Prepare to spend a couple hours surfing!
Link via Havoc Pennington.
“Cap’n, the dilithium crystals can’na take much more of this…” We’ve been getting battered by thunderstorms for days on end, a pretty unusual weather pattern for northern New England. Normally, we’ll get a line of showers through after a hot spell as cold air blows in. But we’ve been deluged since Sunday with oppressive clouds, [...]
Tim O’Reilly notes in Update: Firefox vs. IE in OReilly Network Logs, “as of last month, Firefox passed IE, with 46% of all access to OReilly sites, vs IEs 45%.” Now, one percent is not significant, and the cause can likely be explained in a number of ways; perhaps there are more popular FOSS books [...]
“Windows dominance on the client is cracking, according to the latest release of Evans Data Corp’s North American Development Survey. Targeting of the Windows OS has declined by 12% from a year ago, continuing a two-year gradual decline. Currently 64.8% of North American developers are targeting some version of Windows, as opposed to 74% last [...]
