Adding timeout to Net::HTTP.get_response
One of the parts of Ruby that shows the languages lack of maturity is the Net::HTTP module. There are a lot of magic techniques that people have learned to…
One of the parts of Ruby that shows the languages lack of maturity is the Net::HTTP module. There are a lot of magic techniques that people have learned to…
During FOSE, I was surprised to find that FedBizOpps had completely changed its format, look, feel, and usability. I found out about this because I had bookmarked several pages…
The people who came by our booth yesterday seemed to represent a slightly different mindset than what we saw in Day 1. I can still categorize the attendees: People…
FOSE means:“Free/Open Source Expo” – Scott McNealy, Chairman of Sun Microsystems“Federal Open Source Expo” – Eric Pugh, Principal of OpenSource Connections When the chairman of a company that spends…
In the March, 2008 issue of Wired Magazine, Chris Anderson wrote an article positing that the marginal cost of technologies which drive the Internet (and, by inference, software) will…
Lets get crazy for a moment and declare the iPod touch the New Breed of PDA, a personal digital assistant, not to be confused with public display of affection,…
There was a great post on TechCrunch about Yahoo embracing the semantic web. Basically, the semantic web is the ability to extract meaning from unstructured content. So if LinkedIn…
There have been a couple interesting blog posts this week that highlight a webinar presentation given by a Google engineer this week about innovation and collaboration, and how they…
IE 8 Beta 1 will be released after the keynote, which is still currently going on as I write this. IE has been play catching up of late, but…
Last weekend I attended the inaugural eDemocracy barCamp in Washington DC. It was a very good experience and I definitely want to thank all those who organized it. I…
Technically its 4am EST, but here its 1am (and I pretty much live on a west coast clock, even though I was born and raised in Va), which is…
Today, Google announced the launch of its latest application, Google Sites. Google Sites is an application designed to make it easier for those who are not technically savvy to…