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Four short links: 30 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 30, 2009

The3is In Three -- PhD students must explain their thesis topic in three minutes and one Powerpoint slide. Winner had written on the last words of Shakespearean characters as they met unlikely ends. No video alas, but what a great idea for an Ignite! (via sciblogs) Google Wave: We Came, We Saw, We Played D&D (ArsTechnica) -- gamers using...

Potomac - Bringing OSGi Modularity to Flex

By Chris Gross
September 30, 2009

OSGi is taking over the Java world. The modularity features offered by OSGi have become so popular that it seems like all the major Java enterprise applications and frameworks have adopted OSGi or have plans to. Products and frameworks such as Eclipse (and therefore Flex Builder), Spring, Websphere, Guice, Weblogic, and JBoss all use OSGi. Even organizations such as NASA have adopted OSGi. So what is OSGi and why is it so popular? This article will try to answer those questions and introduce you to Potomac - the new OSGi inspired framework for Flex.

Reviving the Labs - "It's alive...."

By Simon St. Laurent
February 10, 2009

After a long hibernation, O'Reilly Labs has returned, with a mix of software and code that should excite casual ebook readers as well as dedicated publishing technologists.

Pylesystem: A Realtime Metadata Engine in Python

By Noah Gift
August 14, 2008

Last weekend I started an Open Source project, pylesystem, that scratched an itch I had about having having an up to date API to the filesystem on linux in Python. There are really a few different things going on in my prototype and my plans for the eventual direction of the project.

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