Posts Tagged ‘ Internet ’

Neato article about NoSQL on Ars Technica

I am very excited by some of the NoSQL stuff out there and enjoyed a recent Ars Technica article. The first page is some neat background and the second page has a good overview of some NoSQL options out there. http://arstechnica.com/business/data-centers/2010/02/-since-the-rise-of.ars/ [ READ MORE ]

Messing with OpenStreetMap

Some people might not see the reason for a project like OpenStreetMap when there are plenty of good mapping products and services laying around. I am not one of them. Whenever I use a GPS, I think quite a bit about it’s inner workings. How does it figure out which route is best? How does [ READ MORE ]

Data visualization on a web page

Quickie: Two of my favorite ways to get data visualized on a web page are the Google Chart API and flot, the amazing canvas-based plotting library built on top of jQuery. The Google Chart API provides a rediculously clever way to get high-quality information graphics which are generated on the back of the clearly-amazing Google infrastructure. [ READ MORE ]

Good talk about DSL construction in JS

Neat talk, should remind everyone about the joys of doing cool stuff in the browser. Plus, it made me think about DSLs in general which is good because of all the Scala goodness I’ve been messing around with recently. The talk is on InfoQ. [ READ MORE ]

The W3C has been busy: web gems of the future

After reading a very cool post on InfoQ about current issues with asynchronous communication between browser and server, I looked into the HTML 5 WebSockets specification and it’s really very cool! Yes, people seem to be getting most excited about offline web-apps,  client-side structured storage in HTML 5, but a bi-directional socket between client and [ READ MORE ]

Don’t be scared of stuff on the internet

Positively fantastic post by Adam Thierer over at the Technology Liberation Front about putting youth social networking and safety in perspective. It’s a very well-written and well-thought-out piece which puts out some real truths about the disparity between what kids do online and what their parents think is happening. I encourage educators, community organizers and, [ READ MORE ]

My Hacker Key

It’s been far-past time to replace the Geek Code, so I’m very glad that I discovered the Hacker Key. My key: v4sw6/7ALRU$hw4ln5+7pr5FOP$ck0ma0u8Lw2m1l7Di6e4t5NTVb8ADHKMOPRen5a2Xs0r5$p-2.38/-2.31g5G hackerkey.com Make your own, at hackerkey.com! [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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