beCamp 2008 Rocked!
Well, the thank you notes to sponsors and volunteers have been written and mailed, the venue has been cleaned up, and the accounting for funds spent has been dealt…
The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), in the Context of Semantic Web Deployment
This past Thursday, May 8th I had the privilege to attend a presentation at the Library of Congress by Alistair Miles, key developer of SKOS, and semantic web practitioner…
beCamp session notes: How to choose your development language
Today I’m attending beCamp at the offices of CBIC on the downtown mall in Charlottesville. There have been some very interesting sessions already and attendance is great. I suggested…
Trip Report: Shenandoah Ruby User Group
Last night Joe Meade and I road tripped up to the Shenandoah Ruby User Group (ShRUG) meeting in Harrisonburg, Virginia, hosted at the RosettaStone offices.We went there to find…
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…
Facebook Applications and Privacy Concerns
This week I spoke at the LSP Conference at UVa, and while I was there, I got to attend several other speeches that were very interesting. One that I…
Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON) in Denver Colorado
I attended the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON) in Denver Colorado last weekend and I have to say that I was impressed by the effectiveness of the OpenSpace…
New FedBizOpps A Step In the Right Direction
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…
Observations from FOSE Day 2
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 is the Federal Open Source Expo?
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…
If Free Is the Future of Business, Why Does the Government Pay So Much For Proprietary Software?
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…
Apple iTouch, the New PDA
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,…