Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site – Although customization is still necessary, this series shows you the tools and techniques to get relatively complicated Web sites up and running quickly using open source tools, including Drupal, MySQL, PHP, Apache, and Eclipse technologies.
IBM showing how to use Drupal as [...]
Hospitals now offer high-speed Internet – “To me it was just a no-brainer,” said Albert Pilkington III, chief executive of Fairmont General Hospital in Fairmont, W.Va. “It puts more time in my employees’ hands and it improves the quality of service.”
Fairmont General’s system, which Pilkington expects to be online within 90 days, will include a [...]
BetaNews | Sony Debuts Wi-Fi Music, IM Device
I’m looking for something just like this….wish it were cheaper. I’m not connected to personal email or chat while at work and would like something to use during breaks or lunch to keep up with people. I miss having a Blackberry, mainly because of the keyboard. Having IM [...]
Leaving Microsoft – I could have stayed at Microsoft, waited for the other 85% of the company to ship their products, and then hope support for my group might be back on track again, but I didn’t want to sit around doing little to nothing until Vista, Office, and Exchange ship. It’s easier to get [...]
GetWebKit! A web browser for Windows
Needless to say, I have high hopes for this project. So far, it’s clunky, but it’s running on XP and that’s a start.
VMware Virtualization for Mac OS X
This will be very cool. Parallels has been kicking all kinds of ass, leaving VirtualPC in the dust. Now VMWare is getting into the game. This will be interesting to watch.
Mozilla reaches 15% of browser market – ON ITS Spreadfirefox web site, Mozilla claims that Firefox has acquired about 15 per cent of the global usage share in the nearly 21 months since it was released. It has now passed the 200 million download mark.
I don’t know if I want to completely call “b.s” on [...]
I’m not entirely sure if this was a blessing or a curse, but the bit major deadline for my first large project at work has had a suggestion to push the deadline two months later than initially needed.
While the programmers on my team have their stuff together, it’s those programmers who I don’t see on [...]
Apple – Wireless Mighty Mouse (via Daring Fireball)
I purchased four of the original Mighty Mice when they came out and gave them to two of my best artists as well as keeping one for myself and my boss. The boss and a designer hated them, one artist loved it and I was really digging having [...]
Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet “Ginger” – HBS Working Knowledge
After another pause, Tim moved on to the issue of service, determined to move ahead despite the punches coming at him. Within two sentences, Jobs was on him again. Tim put up his next slide, about the new plant, but again Jobs came at him [...]