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Manipulate Physics units and dimensions

Happening Tomorrow – Tapworthy apps cope with small screens and fleeting user attention to make every pixel count, every tap rewarding. Learn to: capture the elusive ingredients of irresistible mobile interfaces; craft comfortable ergonomics for fingers and thumbs; dodge the usability gotchas of handheld devices; and turn tiny-touchscreen constraints to your advantage. Along the way, you'll get behind-the-scenes glimpses into the design process of popular apps including Facebook, Twitterrific, USA Today, Things, and others. Register for the webcast now.More upcoming webcasts: The State of HadoopPresented by Tom WhiteSeptember 15, 2010 @ 10am PT Using Photos and Vectors in PhotoshopPresented by Lesa SniderSeptember 16, 2010 @ 10am PT Check out our Webcast page for on-demand videos of past webcasts and more upcoming live events.

Civic Commons, a new project launched at the Gov 2.0 Summit, will help city governments reduce costs and inefficiencies by sharing the software they develop.

A piece of rack middleware to enable HTTP caching

Provides SMTP STARTTLS support for Ruby 1.8.6

A Ruby interface for getting process information

Tiny WMS server

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In this response to Carl Malamud's Gov 2.0 Summit speech, Jim Stogdill says that demonizing the "beltway bandits" without addressing the root cause -- the lock-in incentives inherent in a single-customer market -- will just lead to new ways to lock them in. Fixing government IT means fixing incentives and making the cognitive leap to intentional emergence.

Alpha Draft of Mozilla Public License v2 Out -- The highlight of this release is new patent language, modeled on Apache’s. We believe that this language should give better protection to MPL-using communities, make it possible for MPL-licensed projects to use Apache code, and be simpler to understand. (via webmink on Twitter) Challenge.gov -- contest-like environment for solving problems....

Identifying extreme weather patterns can minimize impact when that weather arrives. But to improve long-range forecasts, we'll need to create environmental sensor networks out of phones, satellites and other technology.

Any IPhone or IPad user has grown accustomed to the native scrolling features, which has been adopted by many competitors. Those who develop for the apple devices using cocoa have the ability to tap into the native features, while those...

The new O'Reilly book Using SQLite covers version 3.6.23.1 of SQLite. As Using SQLite was finishing up its final editing and going to press, the SQLite team officially released the first 3.7 build. SQLite 3.7.0 did not introduce a large number of new features, but it included one very significant feature: a new transaction model known as write-ahead logging. Write-ahead logging offers some significant performance and concurrency benefits, and is worth a more detailed look. Read more.More from O'Reilly Answers:How to use the Google Suggest API to come up with topics for AnswersHow to use iPhone's FaceTimeWhat is unstructured data?How Innovations Gain Adoption: The Truth About Ideas Before Their Time Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.

The O'Reilly School of Technology is excited to announce the release of Perl 2: Intermediate Perl. This is the second course in the upcoming Perl Programming Certificate Series, and right now you can enroll at 50% off normal tuition. Check out the below video of me introducing our Perl author, Peter Scott:

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Interface to Git for Emacs

The original general purpose macro processor

Late last year, the developer of FreeNAS, a FreeBSD based NAS system, decided to move onto CoreNAS, a Debian based NAS system. Developers at iXsystems didn't want to see FreeNAS go by the wayside and have been hard at work on the next FreeNAS version which incorporates a new core design that will allow for modularity.

update ncurses vendor version to match the latest release

update awk info

Add Marius Strobl.

Perl module to interact with RabbitMQ over AMQP using librabbitmq

Electronic Periodic Table of the Elements

Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python

Python Translation Suite

bump gdtoa vendor version

add softfloat to "Software with ceased (?) upstream development"

Well, technically not ripped out, just serialized roughly.  This means if you update your DragonFly 2.7 machine in the next few days, the wireless drivers may not work, except for (I think) ath(4).  They should return, better, by next week.

Contributed by mtu on Tue Sep 7 23:09:27 2010 from the the-perfect-fit dept. It has been said that Marco Peereboom has been reinventing the Internet since 2000.

Add some telnet related details.

The BSD Mag September issue is about BSD and Linux The following articles can be found in this issue: Installing a Citrix Client on FreeBSD As our computing needs change, so does our criteria for selecting an operating system. Today, my job and my family are in different cities. Writing shellcode for Linux and *BSD A [...]

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It has been said that Marco Peereboom (marco@) has been reinventing the Internet since 2000. Indeed, he has done a tremendous amount of work to help improve OpenBSD in various areas besides creating a slew of very useful Open Source applications. He is a fan of Finite-state Machine

and has a passion for doing things the OpenBSD way.

Read on to find out more about marco@, softraid(4) and more:

Read more...

Jesse Smith from DistroWatch recently asked DistroWatch readers to submit questions about PC-BSD.  The questions, with Dru Lavigne’s answers, can be read in this week’s issue of Distrowatch. The questions asked were: What is your opinion on the differences between the BSD license and the GPL, and how it works for how BSD does things? Why would a developer choose [...]

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Warner Losh from iXsystems announced the availability of a FreeNAS 8 alpha build today. The iXsystems engineering team has moderized FreeNAS in a number of ways. We wanted a platform that was more extensible than the current m0m0wall-based framework allowed. We wanted to create a platform that could be expandable by modules (possibly not even [...]

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MIFARE contactless tag access library

Open source photo manager for GNOME

pgjbot: remove Skype cruft

Added myself

New event timers subsystem

An initial attempt to schedule talks

The fileinfo shared extension for php

It seems like almost every day someone in the tech press or someone commenting in a technical forum will claim that Linux adoption on the desktop (including laptops) is insignificant. The number that is thrown around is 1%. These claims are even repeated by some who advocate for Linux adoption. Both the idea that Linux market share on the desktop is insignificant and the 1% figure are simply false and have been for many years.

Canvas 3D trick

In part 1 we took a look at Marty Sklar's, former Vice Chairman and Principal Creative Executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, "Mickey's 10 Commandments" (video). These were originally written about how to create fun and exciting adventures at theme parks, but can be applied to our work in the digital creative fields as well. In this part 2 we'll take a look at the second half of these rules and see how they apply to creating, designing and developing our own applications.

Innovators from the public and private sectors are coming together in Washington, D.C. for the Gov 2.0 Summit. We're on-site producing videos and interviews, all of which you can find through Radar and the Gov 2.0 Summit conference site. Check back often for the latest.Recent Gov 2.0 Summit coverage:Bringing open government to courts "Spontaneous collaboration" and other lessons from the private sector FCC.gov poised for an overdue overhaul

Map APIs took off in 2005, and during the ensuing years the whole notion of maps has changed. Where once they were slick add-ons, map functionality is now a necessary -- and expected -- tool. In this piece, Adam DuVander looks at the current state of mapping and he explains how mobile devices, third-party services and ease of use are shaping the map development world.

Forth Inspired Command Language

GStreamer OpenGL video plugin

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GObject-based wrapper around the Exiv2 library

add a few more that the 'taxonomy map' considers to be missing, taken from src/sys/dev and src/sys/fs

Apparently the recently committed support for Areca RAID cards came with some help directly from Areca, facilitated by Venkatesh Srinivas.  Perhaps next time you’re searching for a RAID card, consider Areca in light of the effort they are willing to contribute for an open-source project…

Dru Lavigne has an interview in Distrowatch.  Some of it is generic “talk about BSD licensing and etc. only in relation to Linux” style questions, but her answers are well thought-out.  (via)

Add Paul Brian to VirtualBox, Paul also has text on it

Gstreamer OpenCore based Adaptive Multi-Rate Wide-Band Decoder plugin

Gstreamer High-quality free MP2 encoder plugin

Gstreamer OpenCore based Adaptive Multi-Rate Narrow-Band plugin

Some images only require a few adjustments and you're done. Yes. You're that good! Other images just ask to be taken down different paths. As artists we often try to find the best expression of the moment we captured. But we don't always know the steps from capture to masterpiece. We try different settings. Apply a preset or two. Dive into the adjustment brush. and so on. And, even though Lightroom preserves an endless stream of history on an image we don't always remember at which step we saw one of those "looks" we liked. So what do we do? Before Lightroom we might have saved multiple copies of an image. One for each different look. Now I know that storage is cheaper these days but how many times do you want to multiply a 25Mb file? Enter the snapshot!

Akihabara (Github) -- open source (GPL2 and MIT dual-licensed) HTML5/Javascript engine for classic arcade games. (via chadfowler on Twitter) Eureka Streams -- open sourced Java app for enterprise Twitter-like activity: build a profile, join groups, post updates, subscribe to updates from individuals or groups. (via dlpeters on Twitter) Open Microbiome -- hoping to build open tools, standard samples, data,...

An interview with Princeton computer scientist Harlan Yu is a reminder that the state of open government in the U.S. court system is both further advanced and more muddled than the public realizes.

This is a breif introduction to Android project structure and what each folder is used for.

In this wide-ranging interview, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior weighs in on smart cities, how the signal-to-noise ratio of social media can be managed, and why open government -- if done right -- can improve the speed and quality of decisions.

Jesse Smith of DistroWatch recently collected questions from readers for me to answer regarding PC-BSD. The questions and answers are in this week's edition of Distrowatch. Topics include BSD vs GPL licensing, differences between BSD and Linux, package management, ZFS, and boot loaders.

Gnome Specimen is a simple tool to preview and compare installed fonts

KyivBSD 2010 (http://ru.kyivbsd.org.ua/), Kiev, Ukraine 25 September, 2010. The second KyivBSD conference will take place in Kiev, Ukraine.

System tray add-on for firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey, etc

Zoltan is now an official NetBSD developer

A smaller set of links, but still the same volume of reading material.

• Samuel Greear linked to this lengthy writeup on how to have both the consistency of ACID and the scaling of NoSQL.  Astute observers may notice the similarities between the plan described and the way HAMMER works.
• Joerg Sonnenberger pointed out to me, after my works on The BSD Show! that MOSIX is an open source single-system-image implementation, though it appears to be designed for specialized high-speed networks rather than the more general case of DragonFly.
• This seems bizarre.  (via)

The latest version of the BSD Certification Study DVD is now available. Besides being a handy study reference, the DVD is a useful tool as it contains the latest versions of the 4 BSDs plus their documentation. From the announcement:

Add Sean Collins

An article by Graham Morrison for Tech Radar UK this past week struck a bit of a raw nerve for me. It was one of a type we see periodically in the tech press and the title pretty much tells the story:  The trouble with Linux: there's too much choice. To Mr. Morrison and all the others who have written articles like this one I say: Hogwash!

Update contact details.

Remove pc-sysinstall task, add passive mode fallback idea

I’m on the latest BSD Show! podcast.  I haven’t listened to it yet – hope I came through OK.

Perl extension to escape automatically in Template-Toolkit

Perl extension of rate-limiting incoming HTTP requests for Plack

add dtruss, RuiPaulo as new dtrace maintainer

The September issue of BSD Magazine is about BSD and Linux.  It’s a free download!

David BÉRARD has an patch for TCP-MD5 support; if this interests you, please test.

If you've ever used a library that has accurate MSDN-style API documentation, you know how useful it can be. There are lots of ways to create HTML documentation. But the easiest way that I've found is to use Sandcastle. It's an open source documentation generator from Microsoft that reads your assemblies (DLL or EXE files) and their XML Comments and automatically generates HTML documentation. Sandcastle is a very flexible tool, which means it's also a very complex tool. Luckily, there's a companion tool, Sandcastle Help File Builder, that makes it really easy to get up and running with Sandcastle in minutes.

Update of my details

Extensions to the Python library's unit testing framework

Arranging Things: The Rhetoric of Object Placement (Amazon) -- [...] the underlying principles that govern how Western designers arrange things in three-dimensional compositions. Inspired by Greek and Roman notions of rhetoric [...] Koren elucidates the elements of arranging rhetoric that all designers instinctively use in everything from floral compositions to interior decorating. (via Elaine Wherry) 2010 Mario AI Championship...

Behind the principles on both sides of the net neutrality debate lie three sets of fears: competition, censorship, and creativity. In a new O'Reilly Insights column on Forbes, O'Reilly editor Andy Oram discusses and illuminates each fear, each side, and what's at stake. Read more.

fix typo

C++ logging library

An enterprise-scale distributed messaging system

Very small C interpreter for scripting

Perl interface to Gist

My presentation "PC-BSD: An Easy to Use BSD Desktop" for next week's OLF is available on slideshare. If you're in the Columbus, OH area, drop by the BSD booth to pick up a free DVD of PC-BSD 8.1 and chat about all things BSD. Also, consider supporting BSD Certification by taking the BSDA exam at this event.

If I've been quiet lately it's because I was burning the midnight oil participating in the final technical and grammatical review for the BSD Professional Certification Requirements document. The document was published late Tuesday night and is a thing of beauty. From the announcement:

Note that Kristof and I are staying at Ibis.

Add a couple talk/discussion items

A familiar procedure in any open source project: irritation causes improvement.  In this case, the Forth-based boot loader irritated Matthew Dillon into writing a new replacement C-based one.  (See the commit too, and it may slightly affect the upgrade process for 2.7 users.)

All these recent locking changes seem to be adding up to a much more responsive system, incidentally.

The September issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out, with the theme of “Keystone companies”.  “Platform base development” may be a clearer if less exact phrase.

Some FreeBSD related links and updates below: New NVidia FreeBSD drivers 256.53 NVidia has updated its graphics drivers for FreeBSD. Some of the changes are: Fixed a bug that prevented XvMC from initializing in most cases. Added support for xorg-server video driver ABI version 8, which will be included in the upcoming xorg-server-1.9 series of [...]

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I liked it, but I wanted more

OpenSolaris may be dead now,; its advanced techologies such as the ZFS file system continue to live on in FreeBSD. FreeBSD Developer Pawel Jakub Dawidek confirmed that he is praparing a port of the OpenSolaris ZFS v28 file-system. Some of the new features included in v28 are: Data deduplication Triple parity RAIDZ (RAIDZ3) zfs diff [...]

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OpenSolaris has been in troubled waters after Oracle acquired Sun, the corporate sponsor of the OpenSolaris Project. The OpenSolaris operating system is a descendent of the UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4) codebase, and OpenSolaris is was the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around the software. [...]

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Interlingua messages and documentation for KDE4

move di->mediaoffset to be part of netdump into head work

Aliens versus predator unofficial port from icculus.org

The check-in is hardly the apogee of the local consumer experience. It works, for now, but it won't be the long-term solution for customer/business relationships and physical point of presence. So what will replace it? Here's a look at the local sector's near-term future.

The Federal Communications Commission is prepping a significant reboot of its website. In this interview, FCC managing director Steven VanRoekel explains how citizen participation and open government are shaping the new FCC.gov.

In this post, we'll cover a simple addition that you can add to your HTML 4/5 mobile web applications to have them respond more like applications, and less like "web pages" in webkit-based browsers.

Many developers have the idea that design patterns are "nice to haves," something that you can add after the fact, if you have time to waste making your code academically appealing for no added benefit. At some level, I...

Guardian Science Blogs -- the latest in a series of science blog aggregators. Nobody is too sure what benefits a blog umbrella like Discovery or Nature (or the Guardian) offers bloggers. Regardless of this, the content is fantastic. v2ex: A Community Running on AppEngine -- no hosting costs, massive scalability. Raising Money for Vanuatu Arts Center -- a Kickstarter...

Data Week is a new series that brings together notable stories and developments from the data world. Links in this edition include: the connection between visualizations and art, advice on becoming a data scientist, BigCouch goes open source, and more.

There are many XML modules on CPAN. Which ones should I use for which tasks? Answer the poll but also reply with anything else that you want to share. So far XML::LibXML has 42.86% of the vote, and the O'Reilly Answers community is contributing their favorites. Read more. More from O'Reilly Answers: What is unstructured data? How to update database records with forms in Access 2010 How to configure a Junos security device How to remove an autocomplete email address from Apple's Mail app Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.

Add room booking information

Fill in presentation slots with "TBD"

Add the ELTE Faculty of Informatics as a separate sponsor (because of the venue)

Add a section on speed

Fix ordering

Add registration fee

Relational Algebra for Ruby.

A toolkit for building modeling frameworks

Rails internals bootup, plugins, generators, and rake tasks

Stackable dynamic tree based Rack router

a small, simple testing API for Rack apps.

There’s a whole lot of options for bmake, used in pkgsrc, and they aren’t immediately obvious.  I’ve linked to a reference before, but it’s no longer at that location.  However, I found a new link!

I missed this before, but Gerard van Essen linked to it: there’s a BSD Show! episode from 2010-06-22 with James T. Nixon from PC-BSD, in addition to the other episodes I linked recently.

(I was recorded for the show tonight – it was fun!)

The Professional Certification requirements are now published.  (via)  The tests happen at various conventions  around the world, so plan ahead and you should be able to find one near you.

As I found out directly, upgrading from pkgsrc version 2010Q1 to 2010Q2 has a minor quirk: binary packages for 2010Q2 will refuse to install with an older version of pkg_install.  Rebuild pkgtools/pkg_install to the 2010Q2 version and the problem will go away.

New wave Internationalization support for Ruby.

A scripting framework that replaces rake, sake and rubigen

David Rhodus is interested in working the ZFS documentation

A fast C++ regex library

Torrent library split from KTorrent

KDE SSDP/uPNP proxy

Qt4 implementation of the DBusMenu protocol

Add note about new probe names

Don't need to specify WITH_CTF=1 every time you build, if makeoptions is used in the kernel conf file.

Fix a typo

A privacy plugin for the pidgin instant messenger

Mind Mapping tool with Reference and PDF Management

(Posted 1 Sep 2010 by finid)

Open Source next generation IDS/IPS engine by OISF

Plugins for lightwidth editor - geany

Project Honeynet just released its latest Forensic Challenge 5 - Log Mysteries. It is based on logs from a compromised virtual server and requires quite a bit of digging through messy log data.

The IFA traditionally offers an early indication of what gadgets will sell well through Christmas. It's no wonder so much attention is focused on the show with order volume stemming from last year's show reaching nearly $3.8 billion.

Fix wiki numbering

update for with_ctf

fix ubnt wiki links

Movie player based on mplayer

Update GCD page for 8.1.

Fine Offset Weather Station Reader

Refine lunch places during the summit a bit -- still waiting for Max for the details

DNS checker from the folks that run the .SE top level domain

Add Olivier's details

Full buildworlds again, as there’s more commits that make it necessary.  If you’re running 2.7, you should probably just plan on using buildworld, and not quickworld for rebuilding.

Document the "Contributing" field

The FreeBSD Mall, a provider of high quality FreeBSD software, documentation, support, and services to the open source community, recently donated FreeBSD CDs and DVDs to the NSRC (Network Startup Resource Center) for UNIX / FreeBSD workshops being held in Malawi and Tanzania. The NSRC is a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading networking knowledge to [...]

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Bjoern Zeeb has provided a summary regarding the completion of the funded portion of the FreeBSD Jail Based Virtualization Project: “I am happy to report that the funded parts of the FreeBSD Jail Based Virtualization project are completed. Some of the results have been shipping with 8.1-RELEASE while others are ready to be merged to [...]

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Most readers here will be aware of BSDTalk, a blog filled with audio interviews about the BSD family of free operating systems. There is now another BSD related show over at webbaverse.com:  The BSD Show So fare there are the following FreeBSD related interviews: The BSD Show! – 2010-08-25: chat with Warner Losh from The [...]

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Add #haskell-freebsd on freenode

Add freenode, because I mostly hang out there these days

A daemon that logs out idle users and those users hogging resources

add initial version

Make phone number of the hotel easier to read

In our planning for this year's Web 2.0 Summit, John Battelle and I have expanded on the metaphor of "the Great Game," as we explore the many ways Internet companies at all levels of the stack are looking for points of control that will give them competitive advantage in the years to come.

Radar will get refreshed later this week with a new look and more functionality. This brief overview offers a preview of the design and explains our rationale for the change.

Marty Sklar, former Vice Chairman and Principal Creative Executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, has many times presented a list of rules that are now know as "Mickey's 10 Commandments." We'll take a look at these rules and see how they apply to creating, designing and developing our own applications.

Measured in terms of (U.S.) job postings, Amazon's Cloud Computing platform is still larger than Google's App Engine. What's interesting is that the gap has closed over the past year.

When you are creating a mobile version of an existing desktop website, you need to understand that you are mobilizing the website, not minimizing it. Minimizing (or miniaturizing) a desktop website simply involves displaying the same content on a smaller screen. Mobilizing is more than that; it requires understanding the context and offering your services and content in a manner that is useful and allows for quick access by the user. From avoiding horizontal scroll to reducing the amount of text, here's a quick guide to the best practices when building a mobile version of your website. Read more. More from O'Reilly Answers: How to search a file for a pattern in Windows PowerShellHow to stay safe onlineWhat is a good ebook conversion tool?How to use Windows Communication Foundation Bindings Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.

Grand and bold declarations about the demise of online advertising -- and the web itself -- get all the attention. But two recent ads serve as countermeasures to the gloom: hackers are calibrating online advertising to serve their own specific needs.

Rules for Revolutionaries -- Carl Malamud's talk to the WWW2010 Conference. Video, slides, and text available. Self-Improving Bayesian Sentiment Analysis for Twitter -- a how-I-did-it for a homegrown project to do sentiment analysis on Twitter. LUXR -- the Lean User Experience Residency program. LUXr brings user experience and design services to early stage teams in a lower cost, more...

On August 31st, Stuart Henderson (sthen@) announced that the default Python version has changed from 2.5 to 2.6. This was following a commit by Federico G. Schwindt (fgsch@) in the ports tree. Please read on for Federico's full commit message and Stuart's announce:

Read more...

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Network neutrality confuses a lot of laypeople because of all the different levels on which it's being argued and the opposing ways language is used by different participants. Andy Oram takes a look at the loaded words in the net neutrality debate.

System data structures have changed again, so make sure your next rebuild is a full buildworld/buildkernel if you’re running 2.7.  There’s been a lot of changes to pull more and more out from under the Giant Lock.

C++ XML parser library

Decrypting the output from the yubikey token

The express way to send mail from Ruby

A Ruby email handler

Support external branches like svn:externals

format version is also desired for future compatibility

Elaborate on install/upgrade/uninstall events

remove link to my patch set, it's probably stale

Add DimitryAndric

uploading code sample + other demo files

Free as in Smokescreen (Mike Shaver) -- H.264, one of the ways video can be delivered in HTML5, is covered by patents. This prevents Mozilla from shipping an H.264 player, which fragments web video. The MPEG LA group who manage the patents for H.264 did a great piece of PR bullshit, saying "this will be permanently royalty-free to consumers"....

The big-bet venture capital model works on occasion in Silicon Valley, but it seldom works elsewhere. Dale Dougherty mulls the trajectory of non-VC startups: the small firms that don't need an exit strategy because the business creates its own type of fulfillment.

Both the iPhone and Android Web browsers are built using the same technology, WebKit. With this in mind, you can create Web sites optimized for WebKit that will run on both phones. The focus of this article is animation for the mobile phone. We will cover CSS3, SVG and CANVAS techniques you can use today.

Add Ilya Bakulin, a GSoC student from this year (requested by: netchild)

Make it easier to contact me.

FAQ.

Add Olivier Cochard-Labbé, the man behind FreeNAS

Link to PortsUnsingSQLite page

Add an idea about "events"

Link to a JSON parser

Add myself.

Things are hidden right before your eyes

Octave-forge package dataframe

The BSD Show!, the show I didn’t know was there, already has more 20 minutes more of content; an interview with Adam Hamsik about NetBSD.

They’re looking for more guests, too…

Remove cruft

Johannes Hofmann happened to notice that recent libkinfo changes broke sysutils/estd.  It’s fixed by rebuilding the program, though this may affect a few other packages.  This only affects people running bleeding-edge DragonFly 2.7.

A tool to take notes, annotate documents (including PDF), and more

As a way of addressing our burgeoning bug list my manager instituted something that we call Bug Scrub Day. One day a month we drop everything that we are doing and focus only on addressing bugs. The need for such...

Dave Megginson (who drove the development of the SAX API that will be familiar to many XML developers who use Java) recently wrote Java is dead. Java stood out as a programming language (though not as a platform) in that...

Finally make it work!

remove stale tasks. document the priorities that I have been working on for the last 3 months.

try another spelling

Add wen@

the V210 is already in NYC; we're going to pass on the Ultra2 and the V440s; I don't think there is any reason to ship 280Rs, 2550s, or 6650s around; no one seems interested in sunv4v anymore

All three of the Google Summer of Code Projects for DragonFly are complete and passed!  The code for each will show up at the Google-hosted project page in the next week or so.  The original proposals for Alex Hornung’s device mapper/LVM, Samuel Greear’s kevent/select/pool work, and David Shao’s GEM/KMS porting are still there on the Google project page for DragonFly.

Sascha Wildner has brought in arcmsr(4), an Areca RAID controller driver.  Please try it if you have the right hardware.

Describe GNATS processing conventions

Initial version

H264 streaming module for lighttpd

GeoIP module for lighttpd

Initial version

Initial version

Initial version

In this podcast, MIT professor Andrew McAfee applies the insights from his research into the use of social software in the enterprise to understanding how and where technology will change government.

Early this week Gnash 0.8.8 was released. Despite the small increment in version number, which would make this seem like a minor maintenance release, the difference between version 0.8.8 and the earlier 0.8.7 is like night and day.

Add Efstratios Karatzas

In one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes, Kramer comes up with the brilliant idea for a coffee table book with fold-down legs that makes it into a little coffee table--a...

Add Hotel special rates

Intended to work as a drop-in for Rails applications.

DataMapper plugin for magical timestamps

Good news: the upcoming 2.8 release (that’s next month!) of DragonFly will be missing the Big Giant Lock from a significant part of its structure, and will be removed completely somewhere in 2.9.  Recent commits bear this out.

There’s a podcast titled “The BSD Show!”, which I didn’t know.  What’s more, it has 15 minutes of Warner Losh speaking about FreeNAS.  That’s the 4th broadcast so far.  (via)

(added it to the links, too)

Remove Google Wave!

netdump has its own section

Address verification milter to prevent spam backscatter

Open Source IPSec-based VPN solution

Fast and scalable library for XMPP written in Erlang/OTP

Simple client library for Google code

Highlight emaste/sv

Lua -> C FFI

John Wilker has started a contest over on the 360|Flex blog. The requirements are simple and the stakes are high - tell John why you want to go to 360|Flex in the comments and John will pick someone to win a free pass to 360|Flex in Washington D.C., September 19-22. Entrants will be judged on "zest for life and creativity", and the winner will be chosen by midnight on 8/30 (that's soon.) What are you waiting for - go leave a comment on the 360|Flex blog!

Hebrew Calendar calculator

Thanks to the efforts of Venkatesh Srinivas, tmpfs file systems on DragonFly can now withstand fsstress testing.  Thanks, Venkatesh!

(One of the benefits of posting about people’s work is that the names are fun to type.)

Jim Brown asked about using the DragonFly logo, and as part of his request described (slightly) the BSD Professional certification exam, and how they are testing.

The InfoWorld Test Center rounds up of the past year in open source, highlighting the best open source offerings in several software categories: "The word 'best' here can mean many things. It is sometimes equivalent to 'most promising', 'most surprising', 'most subversive', 'most unnerving', 'most opportune', 'most happening', or some weird, inchoate mixture of them all. The one thing it always means is 'most useful' - to developers, IT administrators, and users on a business network." From enterprise apps, to app dev tools, to platforms and middleware, to networking software, the list is expansive, including 39 hybrid license and community offerings.

Add John Nielsen working on linux inside jails documentation

The first NASA IT Summit featured deep views into the future, including an interplanetary Internet, the evolution of computational computing and Gartner's top emerging technologies.

A trac plugin providing a downloads section

Elliot Washor of Big Picture Learning organized an educational symposium during Maker Faire Detroit. The symposium brought together educators and practitioners who explored engaging the hands and minds of students, sometimes called thinkering. As a group, they experienced Maker Faire and then met to discuss "how making can be an integral part of how young people figure out who they...

The Tools of Change site will be undergoing some reorganizing and streamlining over the next few weeks - the hopeful result of which will be a much better experience for...

There is an axiom that it is more important to focus on doing the "right things" than on having to do everything "perfectly right." But, this begs a question. At what point is "good enough" achieved? Read on...

A GPL-licensed library implementing the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm

Two things:

1. If you are running DragonFly 2.7, Matthew Dillon has made some kernel changes, so updating your 2.7 machine will require a full buildworld cycle, not quickworld.
2. The binary packages for 2.6 and 2.7 have been updated to pkgsrc-2010Q2.  This means that pkg_radd will automatically pull down newer packages, and you should make sure your /usr/pkgsrc is using the pkgsrc-2010Q2 release if you want to be sure there’s no version mismatches.

I recently sent out a description of what built for pkgsrc-2010Q2 , though the section on not changing the stable link is no longer true.

Anyone want to implement TCP-MD5?  (RFC2385, among others.)  David BÉRARD would find it useful.

The rise of social networks has changed the flow of information in my daily life from a pull of data by actively searching for it to a new metaphor where information is being pushed to me constantly. The rise of...

Death makes for good headlines, and those of us in the publishing world have been reading a lot of headlines lately about the death of everything from print, to bookstores,...

Adjust my travel details

Russian messages and documentation for KOffice2

Ad /me

typos

add a note about libarchive and files permissions

Music collection manager and player

One of the most discussed pricing strategies is 'Free'. Anecdotally, free product has been said to increase print sales of the same title, to play a marketing role in acquainting customers with an unknown quantity, to allow for a later up-sell, and to provide branding opportunity. This week, Kaplan is placing nearly 100 of our eBook titles on sales for free for a week on the iBookstore. Something of a grand experiment, we've planned a veritable marketing bonanza to publicize the promotion. In the end, the experiment itself will yield more information about our consumers' interests, how we connect to our readers, and our eBooks themselves than any other products we are selling this year.

Business-to-business (B2B) marketing overlaps with the business-to-consumer (B2C) world in a basic sense: Marketers targeting either realm are focused -- at their core -- on converting a customer base. But that's pretty much it for the similarities. B2B marketers can't treat business customers like consumers, and they can't (and shouldn't) use consumer metrics to define online success. Tami Dalley, director of user experience at ROI Labs, discusses the best and worst online B2B metrics in this interview at O'Reilly Answers. Read more.More from O'Reilly Answers: How to measure conversions in Google Analytics with Goals and FunnelsHow to use HTML5's Web StorageThe business of SharePoint architectureHow can the Android Market be improved?Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.

The Dirty Little Secret About Google Android (ZD Net) -- By some reports, the Open Handset Alliance is in now shambles. Members such as HTC have gone off and added lots of their own software and customizations to their Android devices without contributing any code back to the Alliance. Motorola and Samsung have begun taking the same approach. The...

Fast and extensive C++ GUI toolkit -- devel version

Open-source Java web server by Apache, 7.x branch

Add bz

An advanced cross-platform text editor

add pointer to handbook PRs

Sevan Janiyan sent along news of a  London *BSD meetup happening on August 26th, at The Cleveland Arms in Bayswater, starting at 7 PM.

Of course, you already knew because you watch the BSDEvents feed, don’t you?  Well, you should.

Nikolai Lifanov has created a DragonFly hosting service.  It’s vkernel-based, with a variety of options in disk and RAM.  It’s at http://dflyhost.net/.  (added to the links here, too)

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.8 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD today. Bordeaux 2.0.8 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs. With this release firefox and winetricks have been updated Bordeaux 2.0.8 was built on FreeBSD 8, PC-BSD 8 and PC-BSD 7.1  A .sh installer is provided for FreeBSD and a .pbi [...]

To run a website you need speed and reliability. This company provides both: FreeBSD VPS hosting

Four-Disc CD Set, Dual-Sided DVD now available for purchase The FreeBSD Mall is now shipping FreeBSD® Version 8.1, the second release of the FreeBSD 8-STABLE branch in AMD64 and i386 architectures. FreeBSD Version 8.1 is the first update to FreeBSD Version 8.0, which added Virtual Access Points (VAP) support to 802.11 wireless networking, and allowed [...]

To run a website you need speed and reliability. This company provides both: FreeBSD VPS hosting

linuxbsdos has a fairly positive review of PC-BSD 8.1, though there is still room for improvement: “PC-BSD 8.1 was released on July 20, 2010, roughly five months after version 8.0 was released. Some of the suggestions made in the review of PC-BSD 8.0 have been carried out in this latest release. In fact, the changes [...]

To run a website you need speed and reliability. This company provides both: FreeBSD VPS hosting

The presentations from the recent MeetBSD 2010 (Cracow, Poland) conference are now available on the BSD Conferences Youtube Chanel. The following videos are all in HD quality and most are in English, though a few are in Polish. Dru Lavigne – Update on BSD Certification Hans Peter Selasky – The new USB stack in FreeBSD [...]

To run a website you need speed and reliability. This company provides both: FreeBSD VPS hosting

Library for parsing domain names and canonicalizing URLs

A multithreaded disk i/o microbenchmark

Unicode string manipulation library for Ruby

Data viewing and plotting tool

Ruben from the FreeBSD Chromium porting team emailed me to say that for this week only the latest Chromium 7.0 for FreeBSD subscriber builds will be available for free (excluding HTML 5 video). The subscriber builds are largely open source and funded by a hybrid model. If you like what you see, you may consider subscribing to the [...]

To run a website you need speed and reliability. This company provides both: FreeBSD VPS hosting

remove some old todos

Add arrival and departure dates.

I think that I am safe at this point in generalizing that Apple, as a Company, is dedicated to delivering real, sustainable value to its base of users. All of the economics and first-hand customer experience bear this point out. That is why I can't reconcile an iOS-based Apple TV reboot with the rumored $99 price.

Remove Ana; she will not be able to make it :(

Add/remove swapspace as needed

Link dumps just so I can get caught up.

• Michael Lucas was interviewed about his new Network Flow Analysis (previously reviewed) book, in two parts.  Also, he’s speaking at NYCBSDCon, this November 12th-14th.
• Dru Lavigne gave a talk on “Getting Started in an Open Source Community“.  (via)  In other video news, MeetBSD 2010 videos are available now.
• Random Google searches turned up a DragonFly installation video on Via hardware.
• Back to convention items: Kirk Russell has a short BSDCan recap.  (via)
• Also, cluster ssh.
• Stathis Kamperis updated DragonFly’s One True Awk.  (Huh.  Brian Kernighan’s not at Bell Labs anymore.)

Matthew Dillon posted a summary of recent bugfixes in HAMMER and kqueue, which means if you are running a version of bleeding edge DragonFly build in the last few weeks, you should update.

He also mentions a “significant improvement in performance” in disk encryption.  How significant?  Over three times as fast.

A bzr plugin to construct a bzr branch based on a "recipe"

Bazaar plugin to assist in developing focused patches

CUE Sheet Parser Library

GPT fdisk

Standalone clamav client

updated with pkg info

Allows Maven's artifact handling to be used from within an Ant build

The Droid typeface family

Lexically warn about using the indirect object syntax

One of the first things a new C# developer learns is how to work with strings. We teach the basics of strings early on in Head First C#, and it's the same way with practically every other C# book I own. So it shouldn't be surprising that novice and intermediate C# developers feel like they've got a pretty good handle on strings. But strings are more interesting than they appear. One of the more interesting aspects of strings in C# and .NET is String.Intern, and understanding it can help make you a better C# developer. In this post, I'll go through a quick String.Intern tutorial to show you how it works.

We've always been told that you can't specify strokes in CSS in Flex. Whether that's true depends on what your definition of "CSS" is. If you define CSS as the text contained within a Style tag, then what we've...

Playstation (PSX) emulator

Pure Ruby LDAP support library with most client features

Imports mysqldump files into cego

A python module communicates with Transmission through json-rpc

Dummy driver from fusefs-libs example

A media player for KDE4

Concurrent networking library for Python

Automatically grab link elements of an RSS feed

BSDTalk has a 19 minute interview with Mike Larkin talking about ACPI and OpenBSD.

Samuel J. Greear has been posting news while I was off somewhere in Lake Huron.  I didn’t fix it to show proper credits, for which I apologize.  He’s done a wonderful job, however, and his name is now shown correctly on his posts.

I now get to actually read the past week’s Digest for recent news, for the first time ever.

Hey guys, we know it's been a long time, and you might have thought that we ran away, but we are still here, and working hard. We had some long projects development going on, but now, a lot of our attention is on BSDGuides, and we hope to bring you some improvements sometimes soon.

X-12-ARIMA seasonal adjustment program

An interactive real-time monitoring tool for the HAProxy unix socket

Add myself

Fingerprint the web applications used by a web site

SimpleGeo, geo cloud services and data provider, and Stamen, creators of many beautiful data visualizations, have teamed up to release Polymaps. Polymaps is an opensource Javascript mapping framework. It's been on Github for a while, but they are finally announcing it. Out of the gate, Stamen has also launched a great example application, PrettyMaps, combining Natural Earth, OSM and...

Matthew Dillon sent an email to the kernel list detailing the performance improvements that he and Alex Hornung have recently made to dm_crypt and opencrypto. The disk encryption work does still come with a warning, however.

"Cooking for Geeks is a model for a new genre," writes Ike DeLorenzo, in his review in The Atlantic of Jeff Potter's new book. "Its publisher is O'Reilly Media, the gold standard for technical documentation and instruction books, known for everything from compendiums likeBuilding a Web 2.0 Application with ASP.NET to breezy beach reads like Algorithms in a Nutshell. Its readers are legendarily loyal." Read the review.

The first NASA IT Summit showcased the technology of today and the potential of the future. We take an in-depth look at the event and discuss NASA's IT shifts with NASA CTO for IT Chris Kemp and NASA CIO Linda Cureton.

I still cannot speak English :)

Minor nits

Allocate a slot for documentation discussions

MongoDB -- from "humongous" -- is an open source, non-relational, document-oriented database. The goal of the MongoDB project is to bridge the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems (which provide rich queries and deep functionality). This talk will provide an introduction to MongoDB from one of the developers working on the project, Michael Dirolf. The webcast will be accessible to those who are completely new to MongoDB and non-relational databases, but will touch on some of the advanced functionality that makes MongoDB a compelling option for all web developers. Register for the webcast now.More upcoming webcasts: Asynchronous architectures with the CouchDB _changes feedPresented by Jan LehnardtAugust 25, 2010 @ 10am PT Self-Service Business Intelligence with Microsoft PowerPivotPresented by Andrew J BrustAugust 26, 2010 @ 10am PT Tapworthy: Designing iPhone Interfaces for Delight and UsabilityPresented by Josh ClarkSeptember 9, 2010 @ 10am PT Using Photos and Vectors in PhotoshopPresented by Lesa SniderSeptember 16, 2010 @ 10am PT Check out our Webcast page for on-demand videos of past webcasts and more upcoming live events.

I know it's a bit late in the month but Augusts London *BSD meeting will be held at the Cleveland Arms pub in Bayswater on Thursday the 26th, 7pm
If you use upcoming, you can find the meeting details here

Scott Berkun challenged popular assumptions about innovation and greatness three years ago with "The Myths of Innovation." Now, as an updated paperback edition is published, Berkun revisits the book and its themes.

Flash In The Can: San Francisco went out with a bang today. On the final morning, I heard Kristen Henry talk about the Art and Science of Particles, Grant Skinner talk about building experiments in your spare time (and where to find it), and Jeremy Thorpe talk about The HyperCard Legacy (aka "punk programming.")

The final afternoon of FITC was packed full of inspirational speakers. I started the afternoon with an encore session by Ralph Hauwert, followed by what was probably the most inspirational session of all by Theo Watson and Emily Gobeille on their work in augmented reality through Interactive Installations. After that I learned about the future of digital interation design with Brendan Dawes and brought the conference to a close with renown creator Yugo Nakamura. Looking back on the past three days, I really can't say enough good things about FITC SF. This was one of the best conferences I've ever been to. I think adding the inspirational design element and the amazing host of speakers at this conference was a huge part of what made the experience so great. Each and every speaker I saw was both amazingly knowledgable, talented, humble and personable. The sessions were informative and fun. I'll definitely be back.

Case Study: Slideshare Goes Freemium (Startup Lessons Learned) -- I love case studies, they're the best part of every business degree. The MVPs were tricky to implement for emotional reasons, too. Because the SlideShare team was used to giving away a high-value product, engineers balked at charging for a clearly imperfect product. The analytics package, for instance, launched in...

Happening Today – Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is touted as the business collaboration platform for the enterprise and the web. It's a big leap from previous versions with its wide array of new features and capabilities. Presented by Dux Raymond Sy and Joel Oleson. Register for the webcast now.More upcoming webcasts: Introduction to MongoDBPresented by Michael DirolfAugust 24, 2010 @ 10am PT Asynchronous architectures with the CouchDB _changes feedPresented by Jan LehnardtAugust 25, 2010 @ 10am PT Self-Service Business Intelligence with Microsoft PowerPivotPresented by Andrew J BrustAugust 26, 2010 @ 10am PT Tapworthy: Designing iPhone Interfaces for Delight and UsabilityPresented by Josh ClarkSeptember 9, 2010 @ 10am PT Using Photos and Vectors in PhotoshopPresented by Lesa SniderSeptember 16, 2010 @ 10am PT Scaling with MongoDBPresented by Kristina ChodorowSeptember 17, 2010 @ 10am PT How to Effectively Plan, Execute and Control SharePoint ProjectsPresented by Dux Raymond SySeptember 23, 2010 @ 10am PT Check out our Webcast page for on-demand videos of past webcasts and more upcoming live events.

A set of tools to ease organising a collection of audio files

A configurable tool to check collections of audio files

Perl module to manipulate filenames containing music metadata

A simple Unicode-aware console-based word processor

High performance distributed data storage system

Object oriented simple interface to fork()

Sometimes you need more than one

This episode is brought to you by renice, which allows you to alter the priority of running processes. The renice utility appeared in 4.0BSD. Interview with Mike Larkin. We talk about ACPI and OpenBSD. Note: Shortly after recording this, OpenBSD added support for the "machdep.lidsuspend" sysctl. By setting this to "1", your machine should suspend automatically when the lid is closed. By default, OpenBSD will always resume when the lid is opened. This sysctl works for most ACPI machines that have a "LID" ACPI object. File Info: 19Min, 9MB. Ogg Link: http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk195.ogg

SQL squeamishness

New Big Brother: Market-Moving Satellite Images -- using satellite images of Wal-Mart and Target parking lots to predict quarterly returns. (via Hacker News) Form and Code -- beautiful book on the intersection of code, design, architecture, form, and function. One of the authors is Casey Reas who was also one of the people behind Processing. (via RandomEtc on Twitter)...

The Veterans Administration's efforts have become health care industry buzz, and its illustrious VistA software often makes the news. In this post, Andy Oram reviews Phillip Longman's VA book "Best Care Anywhere," and examines VistA's influence on software and development.

In the process of software development, every contributor has a role. There are IA designers, Interaction designers, Interface developers, Back-end developers, all overseen by Project Managers. In smaller groups and agencies these roles overlap. In larger agencies these roles are divided. But there is one that generally goes quietly unnoticed, and often unappreciated. That role is QA.

Link to SQLite WAL journalling mode

Add bulletted "benefits"

A 3D positional spatialized sound library (Linux Fedora 10)

No repository changes today :(

sync with reality

D frontend for llvm, with the Tango standard library

Checks headers in C/C++ programs

Add a "discussion lounge"

Improve list of interested developers

Do not forget about closing... :)

Minor nits

Unroll schedule

Change level of sections

Be more specific on entities to be scheduled

(Posted 19 Aug 2010 by finid)

A programmable console-based metronome

After spending most of day one on design related topics, I was excited to hit some hard-core code on day 2. This morning I heard Ralph Hauwert talk about turning your passion into your job (and his is graphics in Flash), Jim Corbett talk about the internals of Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile, and Joa Ebert discuss The Apparat - his new tool set for Flash compression and engineering.

This podcast with John Sheridan offers insight into why the new legislation.gov.uk, a site that uses open and linked data to make centuries of legal information publicly available, is the next generation of e-government.

Everybody learns that things in the physical world are structured in ways that govern how they can or cannot interact. The right shape will open the door, the wrong one won't. But unless you're on an IT track, you'll likely graduate from college without ever learning this corollary: The right information structures open doors, the wrong ones won't.

Paul Taylor aka Guy In The Chair has a new blog post up TODAY introducing his new tinytlf framework for displaying Text in Flex. tinytlf improves on the existing TLF framework by allowing you to use TLF-style text encoding similar to TextFlows using CSS and text decoration that's more consistent with HTML. Paul's library allows you to map specific HTML symbols to different text styles and makes it all selectable over multiple columns, making tinytlf an incredibly useful library for rendering text.

Minor nits

Improve task names

s/Responsable/Responsible

"Take"

RSerPool Framework and Example Applications

Mondulkiri khmer fonts

Lightweight implementation of hash tables in C

A web based monitoring system

Search and play YouTube videos streaming in MPlayer

tzdata update to 2010l

A mixer for the jack audio connection kit

The Library module is a powerhouse of organization tools. You can view many images, a few, or one. Zoom in for fine details. Add star ratings. Add color labels. Change landscape to portrait and back again! The list goes on and on. There is one small problem, however. Many new Lightroom users can be confused by Lightroom's reaction to some of their actions. Some seasoned users even get confused on occasion. Here's a typical question I get asked; "I select several images and press 4 to add a 4 star rating. Why does this sometimes add the rating to all the images selected and other times only to my active image?"

The definition of work has changed dramatically in recently years. Where jobs used to be defined by place and time, now many types of work can be tackled by anyone, anywhere. Lukas Biewald, CEO of labor-on-demand company CrowdFlower and a speaker at next month's Web 2.0 Expo in New York, is at the center of the labor shift. He discusses the pros and cons of crowdsourced labor in the following Q&A.

Beginning today, Head First C# author Andrew Stellman hosts a week-long discussion on C#. Topics include: Choosing C# over other languages, C# best practices, becoming a better C# developer, and much more. To kick things off, Stellman is throwing down a challenge: five O'Reilly ebooks will go to the person who creates the best text-mode game in C#.

The first morning of FITC passed like an inspirational whirlwind, but the afternoon was no less intense. In this entry I discuss the Adobe Keynote, which discussed where Flash has been and Flash and AIR's future on mobile. Next I talk about Robotlegs with Joel Hooks, learning about Creative Community from the amazing film titles producer Kyle Cooper and finally playing Megapong with Colin Moock and 20 other people.

Bazaar plugin to grep files

Plasma applet to monitor the status of APC UPS

Syslog message filter

Matthew Dillon reports that DragonFly now has a catastrophic recovery tool for HAMMER filesystems, with pertinent details.

Minimal perfect hashes for C

Minimalitic variant of p5-Class-Accessor

Demo of Stemming Algorithms -- type in text and see what it looks like when stemmed with different algorithms provided by NLTK. (via zelandiya on Twitter) Crowdmap -- hosted Ushahidi. (via dvansickle on Twitter) Opinions vs Data -- talks about the usability of a new gmail UI element, but notable for this quote from Jakob Nielsen: In my two...

Spiffing "Hackers" up for the book version has paid off by delivering a new dimension to the book that readers are reporting back on favorably. Here I offer my reactions to re-reading the text after 25 years and a discussion of the links we added to the electronic version.

A hearing on innovative uses of technology in government examined stimulus spending transparency at Recovery.gov, fraud detection through open data analysis, and the potential of crowdsourcing.

A good book at bedtime helps a child to wind down, to float away into their imaginations and from there, drift off to sleep. Reading books together help parent and...

Michael Lopp has an interesting perspective on the workplace. On one side, he's a geek who prefers the structure and predictability of "system thinking." But on the other, he knows office life is inherently messy. Finding safe harbor between these worlds is tough, yet Lopp has pulled it off. He chronicles the lessons he's learned in the new book Being Geek. Lopp expands on some of those lessons by revealing three specific ways geeks can sabotage their careers. Read more. More from O'Reilly Answers: How iBooks stores user bookmarks Navigation with HTML5 Finding Elements in C# 4.0 Would you buy a Verizon iPhone? Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.

Allocate a slot for introductions (suggested by: gavin)

WingedChariot is a young publisher of international, multi-lingual picture books. Founded in 2005 as a print publisher, WingedChariot made launched into digital in 2009--and were the first paper publisher to...

Flash in the Can is off to a great start. I've been really surprised so far by how many amazing presentations they have going in every session - I'm not kidding or trying to make up hype here; this is really an amazing conference. I find myself regretting only being able to be in one place at one time during any given hour, and I wish they'd record these sessions so we could watch them later. Maybe they do. Anyway, enough wishing for omnipresence. Let's talk about the sessions I have been able to attend. In this entry I discuss the morning sessions I attended today by Mario Klingemann, Kevin Suttle and Scott Hansen. They were amazing.

I'm a sucker for an old-school text-mode console game. Text-mode games rendered their "graphics" by drawing text characters at different positions on the screen using 16 background and foreground colors. They're also easier than ever to build in C# and .NET, thanks to theSystem.Console class, which lets you position the cursor, do animation by moving blocks of the buffer, use colors and special characters, and handle input from the user. In this tutorial post, I'll walk you through all of the tools you need to create a retro MS-DOS style text-mode video game, including a complete game that you can build yourself.