This article on The Register is an interesting read. It's clearly a stab at Bill Gates in regards to a speech he recently gave. This had an interesting point worth noting. Bill truly believed OS/2 could bring Microsoft to it's knees. And while it never did it points out...
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Bill\’s Babbling
Java vs PHP
One of my pet-peeves as a technology-guru, is how some people are given a hammer and can't appreciate that there are other things in the world other than nails. If you spend enough time on this site you may get the feeling that I'm just another open source bigot who hates the Microsoft...
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Man, when it rains it pours….
Generally I am a lazy person. Seriously, ask my wife, she'd be the first to tell you. However, much of that laziness is perceived laziness. Yes, that's right, when yours truly is sitting in front of his laptop at home he's not necessarily wasting time.
There are two magazines highlighting some...
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Chess and AI
One of the oldest applications of AI in educational institutions is with the game of chess. Yours truly is no chess expert , though, a few of my friends have felt my wrath, however I found this article quite interesting. It is about how the man vs. machine match that happens...
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D.C. Bound
The Center for Open Source & Goverment has selected yours truly as a speaker at the conference on Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs. You can view the agenda OR you can view the abstract for the speech I will be giving. If you are really...
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Bare With Me
Bare with me while I give this site a little bit of personality. You may find the site hard to use while I do some tweaks to the HTML and CSS.
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Geeklog 2 Translations
Well, I did a bit of homework on how to handle language translations for Geeklog 2. My initial thought is to use gettext() but we aren't sure if that will alienate some people on ISP hosted servers. Despite that, I found this article that explains how to use it. ...
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Geeklog 2 Off the Ground
I have finally accomplished something towards getting Geeklog 2 off the ground. I have cobbled together some code that uses my A&A system along with a custom PHP4 session handler to successfully authenticate a user and save their data to the session. This accomplishment is a big step as it gives...
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