Archive for June, 2005

A9 Maps Beta
Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

If all went well, Udi has just given a talk at O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference up in San Francisco. In this talk he will have mentioned the new A9 Maps Beta. Check out the screen shot below for a preview, and click for a larger version: We launched the first version of maps with the [...]

An Exclusive From Iraq
Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

Simply amazing! I can’t believe I got this transcript before Al Jazeera did. I bring to you an excerpt from a speech given no more than two hours ago by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, self-proclaimed leader of the resistance to the American occupation in Iraq. From al-Zarqawi: We have more work to do, and there will [...]

A New Project, Part 16
Saturday, June 25th, 2005

For the past two months I’ve been trying to figure out the best license to use for the new project. I knew that I wanted the code to be open source but I wasn’t sure specifically which open source license to choose. I’ve been reading and studying open source licenses for years and I continue [...]

A New Project, Part 15
Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Essex 0.3 has been tagged and released. Essex is a service-oriented toolkit for application development in Perl. It is not a comprehensive framework like Mason or Rails. Rather, it is a lightweight component manager and a handful of useful services. If you are writing an application (web or otherwise) in Perl, you may want to [...]

Who Do You Read? (And Why?)
Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

I choose not to syndicate an OPML version of the sites I regularly read. That’s not so much because I want to keep it private, but rather because I don’t feel like spending the time to keep the blogroll current. And a simple blogroll doesn’t explain why someone is worth reading. So here’s my list. [...]