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| Agylen |
| A blog about recent technology trends, the web, software development and a bit of science and digital photography |
| Language: English |
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| Ostatic |
| 2008-03-05 14:41:43 |
Ostatic is a new website which aims “to be the most comprehensive web destination for information and insight on open source software and services.” I remember at least two other services with a similar aim, here and here, but they didn’t go anywhere, even if the latter was part of the O’Reilly juggernaut.
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| Nikon D60 in stock at online stores |
| 2008-03-04 04:53:58 |
Apparently some online stores have started advertising the new Nikon D60 as “in stock”. You can find it at one of Amazon.com’s affiliated stores or pre-order it on Amazon.com itself and wait “1 to 2 months” (though I expect it to be available sooner than that).
Personally I’m not convinced the D60 is worth the extra [...]...
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| Lowepro SlingShot 200 AW |
| 2008-02-29 08:36:00 |
Lowepro SlingShot 200 AW
Originally uploaded by Ugo Cei.
I just received my new Lowepro Slingshot 200 AW camera bag. It’s a great bag for photo gear, though it deserves to be filled with better content than what I can provide at the moment. In any case [...]...
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| Hot Nikon camera bargains at Amazon.com |
| 2008-02-15 05:26:17 |
Ken Rockwell reports that you can get some very good bargains on Nikon DSLR cameras and lenses. You get $100 instant rebates if you buy any of these three cameras:
D40 with 18-55mm lens
D40x with 18-55mm lens
D80 with 18-135mm lens
together with any of these three extra lenses:
55-200mm ($73 after $100 instant rebate)
55-200mm VR ($112 after [...]...
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| Oxford |
| 2008-02-12 15:09:37 |
Oxford
Originally uploaded by Ugo Cei.
I went to Oxford and all I got was this crappy picture.
I had hoped to meet Richard Dawkins, but alas, I wasn’t so lucky. Maybe next time....
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| Room with a view |
| 2008-02-06 12:05:28 |
From the balcony
Originally uploaded by Carlfish.
Charles just moved into his new apartment and the view from the balcony is just… well, judge by yourself.
Only thing I can say is that I’m envious. Does Atlassian have any job openings in Sidney?...
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| Flickr rebranding |
| 2008-02-01 18:02:08 |
Microsoft Flickr Live
Originally uploaded by dr_lopbot.
It was bound to happen, you know…...
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| New Sony Alphas: Viable competition for Canon and Nikon? |
| 2008-01-31 03:56:05 |
Amazon.com Widgets
I don’t want to turn this blog into a place where you can find digital camera feature comparisons, but since Google is sending quite a few people towards my Canon 450D vs. Nikon D60 article, I might quickly mention that Sony has announced two new entry-level DSLRs that could be an interesting [...]...
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| SpringSource acquires Covalent |
| 2008-01-29 10:41:52 |
Oh my, one more Open Source company acquisition, again. I’m finding harder and harder to keep up, with an almost daily occurrence of this kind of news.
SpringSource - Covalent: “On January 29, 2008, SpringSource announced that it has acquired enterprise open source leader Covalent Technologies. The acquisition brings together two open source market leaders and [...]...
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| Canon 450D (Rebel XSi) vs. Nikon D60 |
| 2008-01-29 03:23:55 |
In anticipation of PMA 2008, the big names in digital photography, Canon and Nikon, just announced new additions to their line of DSLRs, with a new entry-level model each: to the 450D (a.k.a. Digital Rebel XSi) announcement from the Canon front, Nikon responded with the D60. Let’s see how they stack up against each other, [...]...
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| Nokia to acquire Trolltech |
| 2008-01-28 02:53:45 |
Looks like the mad streak of acquisitions of Open Source companies that characterized this month (see here and here) isn’t over yet:
ESPOO, Finland and OSLO, Norway, January 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Nokia and Trolltech ASA today announced that they have entered into an agreement that Nokia will make a public voluntary tender offer to acquire Trolltech [...]...
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| 1,000 Pictures and Some Coins |
| 2008-01-22 07:57:38 |
Last weekend was foggy and the kid had a slight fever, so we ended up staying at home for most of the time. Having some time on my hands I resolved to do some macro shooting of a collection of old coins that is owned by a friend of mine.
For the occasion, I built myself [...]...
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| Must be the M&A season |
| 2008-01-16 08:36:00 |
First Sun acquires MySQL, and now this:
Oracle to Acquire BEA Systems: “REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) and BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire all outstanding shares of BEA for $19.375 per share in cash. The offer is [...]...
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| Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL |
| 2008-01-16 07:55:46 |
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database: “SANTA CLARA, CA January 16, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source [...]...
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| A very dangerous guy |
| 2008-01-16 01:05:05 |
There is a man of power in the world, who is a raving lunatic, a racist, a homophobe, and a religious fanatic. If things go according to the will of his followers, he might soon be at the command of a nuclear arsenal.
Did somebody in the audience say “Ahmadinejad”? No, sorry, I was referring to [...]...
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| Cosmic Crash |
| 2008-01-13 15:51:16 |
Massive Gas Cloud Speeding Toward Collision With Milky Way: “A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is speeding toward a collision with our Milky Way Galaxy, and when it hits — in less than 40 million years — it may set off a spectacular burst of stellar fireworks.”
Looks like we’re safe, as “the cloud will likely [...]...
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| Photophlow |
| 2008-01-03 11:29:42 |
I must thank Ted Leung for inviting me to photophlow as this has allowed me to get in touch with a bunch of Flickrites and have some good conversation. I mostly agree with Ted’s analysis of the site, especially when he says that photophlow is a bit like IRC with pictures (and this means it [...]...
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| Religion is an obstacle on the road to peace… |
| 2008-01-01 14:52:42 |
… and the world would be a much better place if that obstacle was removed, regardless of what a certain bozo in a funny hat says.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Pope says family promotes peace: “‘The family is the first and indispensable teacher of peace,’ the Pope told worshippers at St Peter’s Square in Rome.
The [...]...
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| Lithium madness |
| 2008-01-01 04:27:20 |
Photo Attorney: New Travel Restrictions Affect Photographers: “Beginning January 1, 2008, the U.S. Department of Transportation is changing how and how many extra lithium batteries we pack for our flights (such as those for cameras and computers). In sum, you may not pack extra lithium batteries in your checked luggage, but you can put them [...]...
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| New Year, New Blog Style and No More Ads |
| 2007-12-29 11:37:01 |
As you can see if you’re reading this post off the website and not in your aggregator, I have a new theme for my blog (including a nice picture of our Christmas table) but that is only the tip of the iceberg.
What lies underneath is a big upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress (2.3.1) [...]...
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| New ‘Lost’ Trailer |
| 2007-12-28 15:45:07 |
James Hibberd - ABC’s New ‘Lost’ Trailer - TVWeek - Blogs: “A closer look at the fourth season, not to be confused with last week’s 32-second teaser. ABC made headlines Friday when it announced the show will return on Thursday nights starting Jan. 31.”
I was totally enthralled by the third season and can’t wait to [...]...
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| From the “War on Christmas” department |
| 2007-12-20 17:13:08 |
Three Wise Men are just a legend, says Archbishop of Canterbury | the Daily Mail: “During an interview on Radio Five, the Archbishop of Canterbury dismissed the well-known version of events as legend saying: ‘Matthew’s Gospel doesn’t tell us there were three of them, doesn’t tell us they were kings, doesn’t tell us where they [...]...
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| You call this REST? |
| 2007-12-15 17:45:26 |
From the Amazon SimpleDB documentation:
Amazon SimpleDB REST calls are made using HTTP GET requests. The Action query parameter provides the method called and the URI specifies the target of the call. Additional call parameters are specified as HTTP query parameters. The response is an XML document that conforms to a schema.
Note
If the length of the [...]...
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| The REST Registry |
| 2007-12-07 06:17:40 |
Paul Fremantle’s Blog: A new kind of (SOA) Registry: “So fundamentally the approach we have taken is to build a registry/repository based on REST concepts. And as we looked at the REST space, we kept noticing how close the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) is to our needs, so we’ve made that the public remote API [...]...
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| Boston pictures |
| 2007-12-06 10:37:52 |
I’ve just uploaded to Flickr a small set of the pictures I took in Boston in the last few days. They are bad, I know, but the sky was uniformly grey all the time and any hope of decent lighting was lost. Those that I put in this Flickr set are the only ones that [...]...
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| XML 2007 Wrapup |
| 2007-12-06 03:24:10 |
The XML 2007 Conference is over and here are my observations.
For me personally, it was a mixed bag. My talk was not very well attended and I can understand why now: I thought this was much more of a developers’ conference, but there seem to be many more MIS types and business users than developers. [...]...
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| Boston! |
| 2007-12-01 15:42:33 |
Just arrived safely in Boston for the 2007 XML Conference, which starts Monday, so I have time to take part in the Christmas shopping madness before then.
First impression: Marriott Copley Place hotel sucks. Room Internet access is for-pay, wired only and awfully slow. Couldn’t even connect to any of the open WiFi networks listed, for [...]...
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| I have a pig… |
| 2007-11-30 11:50:17 |
… and his name is Mohammed.
You can call him Jesus, if you like, it’s just the same old shit....
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| This god is either blind or deaf |
| 2007-11-15 17:20:45 |
Sonny Perdue to God: “I said G-E-O-R-G-I-A, not Bangladesh.”
Obviously God is American: most Americans would not be able to place Bangladesh on a map. Well, maybe not even Georgia ;)....
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| debugger; |
| 2007-11-10 07:33:39 |
I guess some developer at alitalia.com forgot to remove a statement from one of the website’s scripts:
I noticed because I have Firebug installed and it popped up the Javascript debugger window while loading the home page....
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| It’s a race to the bottom |
| 2007-11-10 05:15:10 |
Mary Jo Foley: “If you’re Microsoft — especially a member of the Vista team — there’s no way you can help but gloat. Very few Softies or their loyal followers are gloating publicly. But there’s no way they aren’t enjoying this turning of the tables.”
Now this is just ridiculous. Softies are gloating because Leopard is [...]...
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| Bidplaza: Is it for real? |
| 2007-11-07 08:16:46 |
Via an article on corriere.it, I just learned of the existence of Bidplaza. If you do not read Italian, don’t worry, it’s exactly the same mechanism as limbo unique, except for the cost. Basically, the player who makes the lowest unique offer for an item wins.
While I wasn’t able to determine how much placing a [...]...
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| Scarlet |
| 2007-11-06 15:11:17 |
Kudos to my colleagues Ugo and Sergio for releasing Scarlet:
Sourcesense is proud to announce the first beta of Scarlet, a clustering solution for Atlassian Jira bringing high-availability and scalability to the award-winning Jira issue tracker. The solution is based on Terracotta DSO, the Open Source clustering framework from Terracotta, enabling easy and trasparent scalable Java [...]...
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| Autumn colors |
| 2007-11-04 05:15:15 |
What best way to spend a november Saturday than taking a trip to the Lake of Como under a beautiful sun and having lunch out in the open right by the lakeside?
If you happen to go by there, take one of the boats that leaves from Como and stops in Tavernola, Cernobbio, Moltrasio and Torno. [...]...
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| To zoom or not to zoom? |
| 2007-10-15 02:22:06 |
Duncan Davidson:
For me, it’s not about whatever was good enough for the old masters is good enough for me. It’s more that I believe in order to learn what you can do, you need to explore the full effects of all the different settings you can use to make a photograph. And, in most cases [...]...
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| do.you.love.me? |
| 2007-10-12 07:24:46 |
Extensions - .me : Montenegro ready to go live - DomainesInfo: “The local registry has just put up its new website and hopes to start registering .ME domains in the first quarter of next year.
Domaines.Info spoke to the .ME registry’s technical manager, who explained Montenegro’s plans for going live on the Internet, following the ICANN’s [...]...
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| STFUAWSC |
| 2007-10-10 12:03:58 |
A wonderful sentiment on Matt’s t-shirt
Originally uploaded by cackhanded.
From @monkchips....
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| 5023 |
| 2007-10-09 01:42:12 |
AtomPub is now officially RFC5023:
The Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) is an application-level protocol for publishing and editing Web resources. The protocol is based on HTTP transfer of Atom-formatted representations. The Atom format is documented in the Atom Syndication Format....
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| Conferencing, Fall 2007 Edition |
| 2007-10-02 02:40:12 |
As previously mentioned, I’ll be leaving tomorrow for Rome, as I am going to attend (and even bore the audience to death with a talk) the 6th Cocoon GetTogether.
Exactly two months from then I’ll deliver more boredom upon an unsuspecting audience at the XML 2007 Conference in Boston.
Whichever side of the pond you happen to [...]...
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