Archive for February, 2007
Friday, February 16th, 2007
Toronto Technology Week is a new initiative to showcase just how much innovation is happening 'round here. Their announcement is below, minus the dozens of mis-matched font tags put into the origina by at least two different versions of Word.
Toronto Technology Week (TTW) will host a series of activities ...
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Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Good post from Leona Hobbs on how to ace a TUCOWS job fair.
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Via Bruce Schneier comes BitFrost, a radically different take on computer security being developed for the One Laptop Per Child project. I have serious reservatios about OLPC --- is internet connectivity really more deserving of money than clean water or immunization? --- but its emphasis on reliability and usability could ...
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
The University of Toronto wants to hire two Java developers to work on Blackboard, the learning management system it bought last year. Plugins need writing, there's integration to be done --- if you're interested, please apply.
Feb 21: I've updated the link to the announcement. Closing date is March 1; ...
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
I'm using Google Calendar to organize [sic] my life, and have stumbled across an annoying bug. I maintain two calendars: one for work-related events, and one for my personal life. I have set sharing on the latter to "Share only my free / busy information (hide details)", but if you ...
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Saturday, February 10th, 2007
Jason Haley's most recent post includes a picture of the tables that make up a .NET Assembly's manifest. I'll reproduce it here to save you clicking on the link:
I don't think there's any way a human being could keep track of this, or fix it if it was broken. ...
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Saturday, February 10th, 2007
I posted a picture of DrProject's database schema a while ago. Last week, I found myself drawing its architecture on the blackboard in class, so I figured I should post that too. (It would have been up two hours ago, but my Mac died again...)
Here are the key ...
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Saturday, February 10th, 2007
The carpet-layers are hammering away upstairs, so I figured I'd distract myself by pulling up a few links from my del.icio.us collection:
Accessible Web Authoring Practices: guidelines for making your web site accessible to people with various handicaps.
CruiseControl: a continuous integration system that will rebuild your code and re-run your tests ...
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Saturday, February 10th, 2007
This (from Brian Hayes) is very cool: railroads can perform computations.
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Saturday, February 10th, 2007
Really wish I could go to this --- Eclipse, like Linux and Apache, has transformed itself from a tool into an excuse for people doing technically innovative things to hang out and swap ideas. Or maybe "lingua franca" would be a better analogy, or the early days of Unix, when ...
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