An article in LinuxInsider caught my attention, because it mentioned a comment by Jeremy Allison, a member of the Samba project, to the effect that Tom Tom may be violating the GPLv2 license agreement that […]
President Obama and Vice President Biden released the new emblem that will identify Recovery projects, projects funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Given the amount of money that is funding the program, […]
The highest penetration of broadband (subscribers per household) in the world is South Korea with something like 93 % penetration. In fact in Seoul I believe it exceeds 100%. If I remember, the US just […]
I have taken a quick glance at the Obama administration’s proposed budget for 2009 and it looks to be heavily focussed on sustainability and technology. Here’s a list of highlights I identified. Department of Energy […]
Once in a great while a new feature or technology comes along that promises to change dramatically how people work. One such is 2D Geometric Constraints and Parametrics which is included in AutoCAD 2010. Shaan Hurley has […]
One of the readers of this blog pointed me to a fascinating article by Steve Vinoski, a name I remember because he was a technical leader at Iona, one of the companies which committed very […]
Jackie Ng has submitted three batch files that make it much easier to build MapGuide Open Source on Windows MgDevbuild.batToolsMaestrobuild.batInstallerbuild.bat He also provides very detailed instructions for setting up the MapGuide OS build on Windows. […]
Last evening around 23:00 NASA successfully launched the Kepler telescope. Kepler was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a Delta II rocket. The Kepler telescope is designed to search our galaxy […]