I’m a big advocate of open source software and feel most comfortable when I’m using a Linux OS. However, I’m quite content on just about any OS as long as I have my Firefox. I seem to live out of my browser anymore and the OS comes second. Tasks that used to require a separate [...]
Category Archives: Software
DRM Dying Slowly and Painfully
July 27, 2008 – 10:53 pm
Digital Rights Management continues to slowly die. Sony just announced that it’s ebook reader will soon support the popular .epub book format. Up until now, users had to purchase titles from the Sony store. Now other booksellers will be able to provide titles for Sony’s device. Perhaps library content will be an option.
O’Reilly has begun [...]
Join the Social
July 21, 2008 – 12:02 am
Recently I had a chance to speak at one of our member institutions about collaborating with social tools. Slides from the talk are now available. Many of the staff spent their lunch break learning how social tools can be used to collaborate with others.
I could tell that many in the room were seeing [...]
Cylons explain DRM
June 24, 2008 – 10:40 am
Thanks to Laura Solomon for tweeting this. Just say NO to DRM!
Optimizing SQL Presentation by Jay Pipes
June 23, 2008 – 11:34 am
Last week I got to see Jay Pipes speak at a local PHP users group meeting. He did a 2-part talk on optimizing SQL (Join-Fu, as he calls it). I managed to keep up and follow part 1, but I have to admit that part 2 was largely over my head. Below [...]
