Articles about technology

Stackless Python 1.0
Kendall Clark
Stackless Python 1.0 is 3--5% faster than Python 1.5.2.
20 January 2000

A simple, prima facie argument in favor of the Semantic Web
Bijan Parsia
The W3C is promoting the "Semantic Web" as a successor to the good old fashioned web. This article presents a simple argument that we have good reasons to be, at least in the absence of counterevidence, optimistic about it.
26 April 2002

The Cube
Niel Bornstein
Art by Andy Makely
24 July 2000

Done badly, it will be hell
Bijan Parsia
Somewhat interesting article by Conrad Taylor on WYSIWYG graphic design from 1996.
9 June 2000

Lars Gets One Right!?! -- Limitations of Napster
Michael Zara
Napster is ill-suited for anything BUT trading of known, signed artists music. It provides little to subvert the stranglehold of the music/recording/media industries on creativity.
27 May 2000

Web RPCs Considered Harmful
Ken MacLeod
Web applications built on exposing APIs (RPCs or remote objects) are more risky than Web applications built on standard data transfer protocols.
12 May 2000

Personal mechanized writing devices
Kendall Clark
I love classic manual typewriters. Why? They represent the true precursors of the personal computer and were the first serious democritazation of Gutenberg's genius.
27 March 2000

The public talents of duotones
Bijan Parsia
An commercial photoshop plugin for generating duotone full color reproductions.
5 May 2000

The secret talents of duotones
Bijan Parsia
Using duotones to achieve full color reproduction.
26 February 2000

Throw Another Device on the Dung-Heap of Discarded Technology
Niel Bornstein
One down side (yes, there is one) of moving to the 'burbs is that I have to down-grade my internet access.
4 May 2000

Flamefests on technical topics
Ken MacLeod
Flamefests, especially over technical topics, tend to wash over significant points so that in the end there is no net gain on any side. Facilitation and discussion techniques can greatly increase the chance that information can be gained from technical d
2 May 2000

What is a Dyson sphere?
Kendall Clark
Freeman Dyson wins the Templeton Prize? Maybe it was for the Dyson Sphere?
22 March 2000

JLG: The Internet Appliance Does Not Exist
Niel Bornstein
The ineffable Frenchman strikes again!
26 February 2000

Advice on Internet Credit Card Processing?
Kendall Clark
Who clears CC transactions over the Web in an Apache-Linux-CGI friendly way?
9 February 2000

AOL/Time Warner Cuts Fiber to Research Center
Niel Bornstein
Ted Turner's construction project adjacent to Georgia Tech's campus makes life interesting.
1 February 2000

Frugal Chips and Tiny Fuel Cells
Niel Bornstein
Mmmmm, laptops that run for years without recharging...
28 January 2000

JPython 1.1 available
Kendall Clark
JPython is the 100% Java implementation of the World's Greatest Scripting Language, Python.
26 January 2000

"Life is better without braces": The Eighth International Python Conference
Kendall Clark
The 8th Annual International Python Conference is taking place this week.
24 January 2000

Monkeyfist is Moving
Kendall Clark
24 January 2000

SurfNotes
Kendall Clark
SurfNotes is a browser companion for taking notes on Web sites.
24 January 2000

Intrinsically Safe
Joel Skelton
21 January 2000

Old School: NET.sources - ucf-cs.493
Kendall Clark
Back in the day, Usenet was a nice place to be.
19 January 2000

FreeBeOS
Niel Bornstein
Be's going free.
19 January 2000

Monkeyfist: Bad Router!
Kendall Clark
18 January 2000

An Introduction to Scheme and its Implementation
Kendall Clark
Paul Wilson's excellent online book about Scheme.
15 January 2000

Dylan means Functional Objects
Kendall Clark
Dylan is an advanced programming language that combines functional and OOP styles seamlessly.
14 January 2000

PDF Files of Patents
Niel Bornstein
Fetch patents from the USPTO in PDF format.
14 January 2000

Type Inference in Smalltalk
Kendall Clark
Lex Spoon's type inference engine for Smalltalk.
13 January 2000

Software Porting Neologism
Niel Bornstein
We need a new word for software that's hard to port.
12 January 2000

Learn Smalltalk
Kendall Clark
12 January 2000

Swiki.net
Kendall Clark
Swiki collaborative groupware
12 January 2000