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This year, though, Apple and Microsoft both realized that the pile-on-features model is unsustainable. Both are releasing new versions of their operating systems that are unapologetically bille ... - Edd Dumbill

Prophet and SD 0.7 (Cavil) are now available Prophet is a lightweight schemaless database designed for peer to peer replication and disconnected operation. Prophet keeps a full c ... - Edd Dumbill

Andrew Strauss lifts the tiny Ashes urn amid a mist of champagne via news ... - Edd Dumbill

Wonderful article from Gideon Haigh on the first well-known Indian batsman, who changed the way the game of cricket was played - Edd Dumbill

what is not to love? - Edd Dumbill

I use OmniFocus http://www.omnigroup.com/applica... to manage my lists of projects and next actions for GTD http://www.davidco.com/what_is.... One of the nicest things about OmniFocus ... - Edd Dumbill

The forerunner of Emacs, TECO was a full-featured, if suitably inscrutable, text editor. From the VAX/VMS manual for TECO: TECO is implemented in VAX/VMS as a half-native, half-compatibility mode prog ... - Edd Dumbill

This talk begins with a survey of the landscape of iPhone UI testing. We’ll discuss the work done by Dr. Nic Williams in unit-testing Objective-C code with RSpec, and by Matt Gallagher in spi ... - Edd Dumbill

I stumbled into Wikipedia's XML entry today and it's terrible. Sprawling, badly-organized, full of inessentials including some nonsense.via lists.xml.org This message to XML-DEV from ... - Edd Dumbill

Cold beer, sun lounger and a warm evening at the San Diego Marriott Hotel - Edd Dumbill

Duck bacon sausage hash at Hash House a Go Go, San Diego http://www.hashhouseagogo.com/ ... - Edd Dumbill

I have just discovered Prezi http://prezi.com/, via some of the feedback we received from this year's OSCON. Prezi does away with the sequence of slides idea, and lets you create a presentation as one ... - Edd Dumbill

Print any document directly to your iRex Digital Reader. Microsoft Office documents, e-mails and Adobe PDF documents, can be directly printed into a readable format on your iRex Digital Reader, ... - Edd Dumbill

When we were working on our own startup, back in the 90s, I evolved another trick for partitioning the day. I used to program from dinner till about 3 am every day, because at night no one co ... - Edd Dumbill

via flickr.com I'm really enjoying Pinar's stylish reportage of OSCON 2009. Kinda curious to see if I get the industrial treatment too. ... - Edd Dumbill

(Don't) read data from memcache to write back to a database. (Don't) forget the negative caching case. (Don't) set the cache timeouts too low. (Don't) forget to lock. (Don't) store low read ... - Edd Dumbill

http://en.oreilly.com/oscon20... Yesterday I presented "Running the Show: Configuration Management with Chef" at OSCON http://en.oreilly.com/oscon20... It was the second time ... - Edd Dumbill

What is this OpenID-LDAP project? We are offering an OpenID Provider (OP) as a Free Software with LDAP support as a backend. LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Internet pr ... - Edd Dumbill

Previous Image | Play | Next Image4 / 5 England beat Australia in a Lord's Test for the first time since 1934 as Andrew Flintoff takes five wickets.via news.bbc.co ... - Edd Dumbill

Hackers Weigh In: 8 Big Things to Do with a Mini Server We weren't sure what to do with a SheevaPlug, a cheap and powerful home server stuffed into a package the size of a power brick, so w ... - Edd Dumbill

Because your iPhone knows your location, the app can show you nearby places to eat, stay and explore, as recommended by the Dopplr community. It also comes with built-in recommendations for 250 ... - Edd Dumbill

via xkcd.com Today's XKCD is wonderful. ... - Edd Dumbill

Eloquent explanation from Zed Shaw on why he uses the GPL. I'm completely in agreement, despite mostly living in the MIT/BSD world of Rails. - Edd Dumbill

Are you a graphic designer? Do you work with letters? Do you know the difference between a font and a typeface? Do your eyes light up when conversations turn to ems, kerning, and baseline ... - Edd Dumbill

O'Reilly have just launched a Best iPhone Apps http://iphoneapps.oreilly.com/ site, to support the new book of that name http://oreilly.com/catalog... and it looks awesome. The featured "ap ... - Edd Dumbill

Apple has stolen the march, and in the process has recast AT - Edd Dumbill

via ft.ft3.kisshosting.com I love just how good-looking this app is. I'm not an investor, but the FT is always my newspaper of choice for planes or trains. Great aesthetic, non-hyperbol ... - Edd Dumbill

All packed up and nowhere to go. We're hoping they've not forgotten us. ... - Edd Dumbill

When looking for a web service, if I can't get an Open Network Service http://opendefinition.org/ossd then at least I want one that will give me back what data I put in. That's what's particularly deli ... - Edd Dumbill

Posterous uses email for posting, which is very nice. You can’t make text links, but you can still have links in your post by pasting a URL in the emailvia thesmallwave.com Found this, aft ... - Edd Dumbill