Monthly Archives: May 2007
Beyond World Peace
Riyo Mori, from Japan, was just chosen as the new miss universe. Not that interesting in itself, except that her deepest wish was not “World Peace” as is traditional for the often peanut-size-brained contestants of such pageants. No, Riyo wished for something much more… Riyo wished for a solution for the tabs-vs-spaces issue. You know,Continue reading “Beyond World Peace”
JamVM
JamVM: JamVM is a new Java Virtual Machine which conforms to the JVM specification version 2 (blue book). In comparison to most other VM’s (free and commercial) it is extremely small, with a stripped executable on PowerPC of only ~160K, and Intel 140K. However, unlike other small VMs (e.g. KVM) it is designed to supportContinue reading “JamVM”
Syntax Highlighting Editor Within Browser
Martijn Haverbeke has created a syntax highlighting editor within the browser. It highlights Javascript syntax. It works quite well. His implementation notes are here. Quite impressive.
All Estonians Get OpenID
Carsten Pötter: Estonia started issuing electronic Identity Cards (eID) in 2002 to its citizens. Those eID’s will be OpenID’s soon! Beta tests are running at the moment. Although Estonia is a small country with just 1.37 million inhabitants more than one million Estonians and foreigners residing in the country will have an OpenID. Open.id.ee=Estonian eID.Continue reading “All Estonians Get OpenID”
Applish Ruby on Rails Commercials
If you’re familiar with Apple’s “I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC” commercials, have a look at these two Ruby on Rails commercials. Actually these particular two (there are some more that aren’t that great) are not half bad: Ruby on Rails and Java https://www.youtube.com/v/PQbuyKUaKFo Ruby on Rails and PHP https://www.youtube.com/v/p5EIrSM8dCA
WebFS: the Case for RDF
One of the powerful parts of WebFS, as I see it, will be its metadata capabilities. Metadata is data describing data. For instance metadata about music can be artist information, song title, album, ratings and so on. For Word documents this can be author, date written, number of pages, number of words and so on.Continue reading “WebFS: the Case for RDF”
Some Things are just Cool
Phil Morle is the former CTO of Kazaa who recently joined OmniDrive as their CTO. One of his reasons was, according to his blog post: One idea really caught my attention and the vision is huge and important. When I met Nik Cubrilovic (Omnidrive’s CEO) in the Darling Harbour Starbucks he told me about hisContinue reading “Some Things are just Cool”
Recent Going Ons
I haven’t been blogging much the past weeks because I’ve been busy with different things. First I was in Oxford for a week. Then I spent a lot of time preparing my parents’ 25th wedding anniversary, which they celebrated last Saturday (yay!). We’ve organized to give them a week trip to New York, which theyContinue reading “Recent Going Ons”
A Day of Pimpin’ my Mobile
It was not my intention, but you know how these things go. I’m considering switching my mobile provider and have been doing some research. Not only did I spend hours and hours comparing plans — today I also looked into flashing my phone. Those who know me a bit know I’m not the hacker type. I’m notContinue reading “A Day of Pimpin’ my Mobile”
