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 […]
Google has just announced that the Google’s SOAP Search API , which has been deprecated since 2006, is being retired August 31st. It has been superseded by the Google AJAX Search API, which is a […]
Just came across what looks to be an incredible device . It’s from AlwaysInnovating, and here’s the video from Demo 09 . It is completely open source, OS and applications software and schematics of the […]
This is pretty cool. It’s been possible to view DWF files with IE for some time. Now you can view them with Firefox. You can find how to on Beyond the Paper.