2008 September | Bieber Labs

Bookmarks for September 29th

Pub uses electronic cigarettes to beat the smoking ban - Telegraph - "The new E.cig smokes like a real cigarette and users get a shot of nicotine every time they inhale. The device even produces a cloud of water vapour with every puff, though causes no harm to smokers. "
SourceForge.net: pGina - Project that allows Windows clients to authenticate with a central LDAP server. Supports plugins as well.
The Xapian Project - "Xapian is an Open Source Search Engine Library, released under the GPL. It's written in C++, with bindings to allow use from Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C# and Ruby (so far!)"

Bookmarks for September 25th through September 28th

Updated GIT Packages for Ubuntu - This site provides more up to date GIT packages for Ubuntu than come with the distribution.
Want to attract and retain Gen Y? Better rethink everything - "In order to appeal to us, employers need to rethink their rules a bit. Forget rigid 40-hour workweeks. Forget traditional company hierarchy. "
The traditional workplace is broken - (37signals) - "Simply put, employees are treated like children. They are not allowed to think for themselves, and there are too many layers of approval, just too much insulation that prevents anyone from doing anything. The traditional workplace is broken, and until someone realizes that, there’s always going to be conflict.”

Bookmarks for September 24th through September 25th

The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time | Technologizer - "They're rarely helpful. Actually, they usually add insult to injury. But what would computing be without 'em? Herewith, a tribute to a baker's dozen of the best (or is that worst?). " - Can you guess who the winner is?
Got an idea to help the world? Here's $10 million - CNN.com - "Got an idea that could change the world, or at least help a lot of people? Google wants to hear from you — and they'll pay as much as $10 million to make your idea a reality."
Fraser Speirs – Git committing workflow with BBEdit - "Now that I’m committed to using Git, I’m trying to streamline (and improve) my workflow a bit. Here’s what I’m doing in a git commit right now."

Bookmarks for September 23rd

Kirix Strata: Software for Business Analysts - "Kirix Strata is a specialty browser for working with data and the web. Strata gives you the ability to connect to the vast resources on the web as well as your local data, and provides a rich environment for interacting with layers of information on many levels. "
Hadoop Map/Reduce Tutorial - "This document comprehensively describes all user-facing facets of the Hadoop Map/Reduce framework and serves as a tutorial. "
Database People Hating on MapReduce | High Scalability - "ypical Programmer tackles the technical issues in Relational Database Experts Jump The MapReduce Shark. The culture clash is still what fascinates me."

Bookmarks for September 17th through September 23rd

MODx Content Management System | Home - "MODx is an open source PHP Application Framework that helps you take control of your online content. It empowers developers and advanced users to give as much control as desired to whomever they desire for day-to-day website content maintenance chores."
SilverStripe CMS - "SilverStripe is an intuitive content management system atop a powerful programming framework.
We've rethought how content editors, developers, and designers should build and manage websites. We've arrived at a unique combination that empowers all three to get their jobs done more quickly and with more flexibility."
Midgard CMS: Midgard Project: Midgard - New user experience - "Midgard CMS is an Open Source Content Management System built on top of the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform. It provides a reliable, powerful and internationalized set of tools for building web sites and networked applications. "
Zarafa - Open Source Exchange Server - "Nowadays, e-mail is one of the mission critical applications of a company. Zarafa combines the usabillity of Outlook with the stability and flexibility of a Linux server. Not only Outlook is supported natively, but users can use also the web 2.0 Outlook "Look & Feel" webaccess and all ActiveSync compatible mobile devices."
How-To: Covering Brand Bases on Twitter - MarketingVOX - "The young adults that use the service [Twitter] present a significant marketing opportunity for retail brands."

Bookmarks for September 15th through September 17th

Facebox 1.2 - "Facebox is a jQuery-based, Facebook-style lightbox which can display images, divs, or entire remote pages.
It's simple to use and easy on the eyes. Download the tarball, view the examples, then start enjoying the curves."
Richard Wright dies at 65; founding member of Pink Floyd - Los Angeles Times - "While he lacked the high profile of bandmates Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour, the keyboardist shaped the British psychedelic group's sound."
The short - but eventful - life of Ike - The Big Picture - Boston.com - PhotoSet of Hurricane Ike photographs from boston.com

Bookmarks for September 12th through September 13th

How Rackspace Now Uses MapReduce and Hadoop to Query Terabytes of Data | High Scalability - "Rackspace faced a now familiar problem. Lots and lots of data streaming in. Where do you store all that data? How do you do anything useful with it?"
Map Multiple Locations by Address - Geocoding site - free use.
Better Searching with Apache Lucene and Solr - Presentation explaining Solr and Lucene.
Move over T9, here comes Swype | Crave, the gadget blog - CNET - "The inventor of the T9 keyboard technology for numeric keypads, Cliff Kushler, is back in the game with a new alphanumeric entry technology for today's devices: touch-screen laptops and smartphones"

Bookmarks for September 9th through September 10th

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth | Video on TED.com - "Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them." - AMAZING DEMO
Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases - US Patent Office Patent Database Search.
Overview (LDAP Classes) - Documentation for Novells ldap libraries

Bookmarks for September 5th through September 9th

The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte - FLOSS Weekly - Podcast by Leo Laporte where he and his partner interview open source authors and companies. I've found this podcast extremely informative.
Suspekt… » Blog Archive » MySQL and SQL Column Truncation Vulnerabilities - "While SQL-Injection is one of the most discussed security problems in web applications other possible problems for SQL queries like overlong input are usually ignored although they can lead to all kinds of security problems."
Yammer Launches at TC50: Twitter For Companies - Announced at TechCrunch 5.0, we now have Twitter for Companies in a product called Yammer, which limits all visibility to your email domain.
Access GitHub repositories from work (take that, firewall!) - Using GitHub almost requires the use of ssh to access repositories securely. It is absolutely required to update repositories. Unfortunately, that can run afoul of the “IT overlords” in many corporate environments. At my workplace, a Microsoft ISA authenticating web proxy server is in place, restricting most outbound traffic. Specifically, port 22, the ssh port, is not allowed and that means I can’t pull or push to my repositories on GitHub.

Bookmarks for September 3rd

Shalla Secure Services - "Shalla's Blacklists is a collection of URL lists grouped into several categories intended for the usage with URL filters like SquidGuard or Dansguardian. But the usage is not limited to this. Some people use the lists to include them (that is parts of them) into their Squid installation without using a redirector or other webfilters or use them for their IPCop installation. "
Squid whitelist and blacklist (controlled kid browsing) | Screaming Penguin - "A simple tutorial or explanation of setting up Squid so that multiple users are present via an auth mechanism, and some are limited to a whitelist (kids), and others have either all access (or optionally whatever limited access you want, different whitelist, blacklist, etc). "
SCons: A software construction tool - "SCons is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches such as ccache. In short, SCons is an easier, more reliable and faster way to build software. "

Bookmarks for August 22nd through September 2nd

37signals Product Blog: How GitHub used Getting Real to pick a fight, scratch their own itch, and stay lean - "Git is a fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software and GitHub is "the easiest (and prettiest) way to participate in that collaboration." GitHub's Chris Wanstrath wrote to tell us how much Getting Real influenced the team there."
The Sunday Herald - 8 million victims in the world's biggest cyber heist - "Because the compromised information included future bookings, the gang now has the capacity to sift through the data and sell "burglary packs", giving the home addresses of local victims and the dates on which they are expected to be away from their home."
Flat management structure promotes productivity, retention at DreamHost– July 18, 2008 - "By operating with a flat management structure, Southern California-based DreamHost is enhancing productivity and employee retention, says Brett Dunst."

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