why the arduino won and how we can kill it.
The long and tragic downfall of Helma, the still amazing grandmother and IMHO best incarnation of all server-side JavaScript application frameworks, has hit another low point: after helma.org was pretty shaky in the last weeks it now has gone completely offline.
Unfortunately, this impacts on my tiny entrepreneurship, too, as clients who I am telling that I am realizing great software with Helma hardly will bother with a product having such a lack of web presence – and probably then, will not bother with me either.
And I bother myself not having mirrored the reference documentation... bummer.
how reliable is java’s localization?
java’s DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.DEFAULT, DateFormat.DEFAULT, Locale.GERMAN).format(new Date()) produces “22.01.2011 15:24:57” – without a comma or any other visible delimiter netween date and time.
looks awkward to me and i find it hardly legible.
i would write the string “22.01.2011, 15:24:57”, isn’t that at least much better?
(unfortunately, din 5008 does not say much about combining date and time formats... at least nothing i found.)
the myth of female software developers.
“of the 26 billionaires the web has produced in the last decade, only one has been female.”
facebook is...
...a ponzi scheme.
business week: why businesses can’t stand free markets.
News from Alpenmilchzentrale: pool-arch.at
james somers: the simple software that could -- but probably won't -- change the face of writing.
WikiRebels – The Documentary from SVT.
Refocuses on the real evil, which is not those boring (though truthful) cables, but the Iraq war logs, in particular the video footage from a us apache helicopter in 2007.
Reminder: The video shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be insurgents. After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well. The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed the us military did not know how the deaths ocurred.