BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. My philosophy as I begin this new journal can be found in the movie, “Six Days and Seven Nights”. In the movie, the main character, Quinn (played by Harrison Ford), is a rough edged island society drop out who flies a beat up old plane between Tahiti and a tropical […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There are some high profile folk in the technology and weblgging communities who are quitting Apple products: Mark Pilgrim, Cory Doctorow, and even Tim Bray is giving it a thought. Jason Kottke asks whether Apple should be worried. He wonders whether these acts could be a foretaste of what is to come: Nerds are a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Programmers have traditionally created as their first application in any language or environment the “Hello World” application. This is an application, small as possible, that outputs the words, “Hello World”. Wikipedia has a nice entry on Hello World, including the first known instance of using this now ubiquitous right of passage […]
Just in time for the Jena conference this week, Leigh has posted links to local mirrors of useful RDF data sources. Unfortunately, as Michael Bernstein pointed out to me in a recent email, the historical site needs a new home. I really do like Danny Ayers’ posts where he mixes tech and critters. Dave Beckett blogs his company, or as much as he […]
I’ve been spending time today with Eclipse, the popular development tool used primarily by Java developers. I’m using Eclipse in my J2EE development because there’s a plugin that enables EJB development for JBoss, and another plugin that enables web servlet development, and yet another that allows me to interface with a SQL Server database, and even […]