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BlogsTags > softwareThree organizations pressing for change in society’s approach to computingBy Andy OramMay 16, 2013 Taking advantage of a recent trip to Washington, DC, I had the privilege of visiting three non-profit organizations who are leaders in the application of computers to changing society. First, I attended the annual meeting of the Association for Computing … Survey on the Future of Open Source, and Lessons from the PastBy Andy OramMay 15, 2013 I recently talked to two managers of Black Duck, the first company formed to help organizations deal with the licensing issues involved in adopting open source software. With Tim Yeaton, President and CEO, and Peter Vescuso, Executive Vice President of … Where will software and hardware meet?By Jon BrunerMay 8, 2013 I’m a sucker for a good plant tour, and I had a really good one last week when Jim Stogdill and I visited K. Venkatesh Prasad at Ford Motor in Dearborn, Mich. I gave a seminar and we talked at … The makers of hardware innovationBy Dale DoughertyApril 26, 2013 Chris Anderson wrote Makers and went from editor-in-chief of Wired to CEO of 3D Robotics, making his hobby his side job and then making it his main job. A new executive at Motorola Mobility, a division of Google, said that … Twisted Python: the engine of your InternetBy Jessica McKellarApril 22, 2013 I want to build a web server, a mail server, a BitTorrent client, a DNS server, or an IRC bot—clients and servers for a custom protocol in Python. And I want them to be cross-platform, RFC-compliant, testable, and deployable in … Four short links: 17 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 17, 2013 Computer Software Archive (Jason Scott) — The Internet Archive is the largest collection of historical software online in the world. Find me someone bigger. Through these terabytes (!) of software, the whole of the software landscape of the last 50 … Designing resilient communitiesBy Andy OramApril 15, 2013 In the open source and free software movement, we always exalt community, and say the people coding and supporting the software are more valuable than the software itself. Few communities have planned and philosophized as much about community-building as ZeroMQ. … Code Simplicity: The science of software designBy Max Kanat-AlexanderApril 10, 2013 If you want to be a better programmer, a good first step would be to choose an area of software development to take additional responsibility for. Now, when we say “responsibility,” we don’t mean the sort of “you’re to blame … Four short links: 9 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 9, 2013 Automated Essay Grading To Come to EdX (NY Times) — shortly after we get software that writes stories for us, we get software to read them for us. AMD Calls End of Moore’s Law in Ten Years (ComputerWorld) — story … New resource for developersBy Laurie PetryckiApril 8, 2013 Welcome to O’Reilly Media’s Programming blog, our resource for all things related to programming. Whether you’re a professional developer, hardcore hacker, or student, I hope this site provides you with interesting ideas, ways to learn new skills, exposure to alpha … Let’s do this the hard wayBy Edd DumbillMarch 27, 2013 Recent discoveries of security vulnerabilities in Rails and MongoDB led me to thinking about how people get to write software. In engineering, you don’t get to build a structure people can walk into without years of study. In software, we … The coming of the industrial internetBy Jon BrunerMarch 27, 2013 Download this free report(PDF, Mobi, EPUB) The big machines that define modern life — cars, airplanes, furnaces, and so forth — have become exquisitely efficient, safe, and responsive over the last century through constant mechanical refinement. But mechanical refinement has … Four short links: 21 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 21, 2013 The Obfuscation of Culture — Tumblr and LJ users sep ar ate w ords thr ou gh o dd spacin g in o rde r to fo ol sea rc h en g i nes. Chinese users hide political messages … Saint James Infirmary: checking the pulse of health IT at HIMSSBy Andy OramMarch 11, 2013 I spent most of the past week on my annual assessment of the progress that the field of health information technology is making toward culling the benefits offered by computers and Internet connectivity: instant access to data anywhere; a leveling … Four short links: 11 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 11, 2013 Adventures in the Ransom Trade — between insurance, protection, and ransoms, Sean Gourley describes it as “one of the more interesting grey markets.” (via Sean Gourley) About High School Computer Science Teachers (Selena Deckelmann) — Selena gets an education in … Four short links: 6 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 7, 2013 High Performance Networking in Google Chrome — far more than you ever wanted to know about how Chrome is so damn fast. Tactical Chat — how the military uses IRC to wage war. http-console — a REPL loop for HTTP. … Android offers a standard platform for health care appsBy Andy OramFebruary 25, 2013 Video systems can streamline hospital care in all sorts of ways from displaying messages (“Quiet time is 1 to 2 PM today”) to taking patient surveys, showing patients their X-Rays, and helping patients view their records from their beds. But … The software-enabled cars of the near-future (industrial Internet links)By Jon BrunerJanuary 17, 2013 OpenXC (Ford Motor) — Ford has taken a significant step in turning its cars into platforms for innovative developers. OpenXC goes beyond the Ford Developer Program, which opens up audio and navigation features, and lets developers get their hands on … The future of programmingBy Edd DumbillJanuary 11, 2013 Programming is changing. The PC era is coming to an end, and software developers now work with an explosion of devices, job functions, and problems that need different approaches from the single machine era. In our age of exploding data, the ability to … Interoperating the industrial InternetBy Mike LoukidesDecember 17, 2012 One of the most interesting points made in GE’s “Unleashing the Industrial Internet” event was GE CEO Jeff Immelt’s statement that only 10% of the value of Internet-enabled products is in the connectivity layer; the remaining 90% is in the … Four short links: 13 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 13, 2012 Top 10 Chinese Internet Memes of 2012 — most are political, unlike Overly Attached Girlfriend. Evaporative Cooling — thoughtful piece about the tendency of event quality to trend down unless checked by invisible walls. (via Hacker News) What Was It … Open source developers combine efforts in the health care fieldBy Andy OramDecember 13, 2012 I had a chance to listen in a recent meeting of Open Health Tools, a trade association bringing together companies, academics, and standards bodies who create open source software tools for all stages of the health care field. Open Health … Four short links: 4 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 4, 2012 James Burke at dConstruct — transcription of his talk. EPIC. I love this man and could listen to him all day long. (via Keith Bolland) Mechanism Design on Trust Networks (CiteSeerX) — academic paper behind the Ripple Bitcoin-esque open source … To eat or be eaten?By Mike LoukidesNovember 30, 2012 One of Marc Andreessen’s many accomplishments was the seminal essay “Why Software is Eating the World.” In it, the creator of Mosaic and Netscape argues for his investment thesis: everything is becoming software. Music and movies led the way, Skype … Four short links: 7 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 7, 2012 A Slower Speed of Light — game where you control the speed of light and discover the wonders of relativity. (via Andy Baio) Facebook Demetricator — removes all statistics and numbers from Facebook’s chrome (“37 people like this” becomes “people … Listening for tired machineryBy Jon BrunerOctober 26, 2012 Software is making its way into places where it hasn’t usually been before, like the cutting surfaces of very fast, ultra-precise machine tools. A high-speed milling machine can run at 42,000 RPM as it fabricates high-quality machine components within tolerances … Four short links: 15 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 14, 2012 Cheap Thermocam — cheap thermal imaging camera, takes about a minute to capture an image. (via IEEE Spectrum) Observations on What’s Getting Downvoted (Ars Technica) — fascinating piece of social work, showing how the community polices (or reacts to) trolls. … Open source software as a model for health careBy Andy OramOctober 9, 2012 (The following article sprang from a collaboration between Andy Oram and Brigitte Piniewski to cover open source concepts in an upcoming book on health care. This book, titled “Wireless Health: Remaking of Medicine by Pervasive Technologies,” is edited by Professor … Tracking Salesforce’s push toward developers
By Timothy M. O'BrienOctober 9, 2012 Have you ever seen Salesforce’s “no software” graphic? It’s the word “software” surrounded by a circle with a red line through it. Here’s a picture of the related (and dancing) “no software” mascot. Now, if you consider yourself a developer, … Growth of SMART health care apps may be slow, but inevitable
By Andy OramSeptember 13, 2012 This week has been teaming with health care conferences, particularly in Boston, and was declared by President Obama to be National Health IT Week as well. I chose to spend my time at the second ITdotHealth conference, where I enjoyed … Four short links: 31 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 30, 2012 typing.io — a typing tutor for code. Sheep to Warn Shepherds of Wolf Attack by SMS — around 10 sheep were each equipped with a heart monitor before being targeted by a pair of Wolfdogs—both of which were muzzled. (via … Seeking prior art where it most often is found in software
By Andy OramAugust 28, 2012 Patent ambushes are on the rise again, and cases such as Apple/Samsung shows that prior art really has to swing the decision–obviousness or novelty is not a strong enough defense. Obviousness and novelty are subjective decisions made by a patent … Four short links: 20 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 20, 2012 Uncertain Rainbow — Chris McDowall’s artistic Twitter experiment. Just how important are people to your social software? Described in this blog post. 8 Weeks Until BitCoin Debit/Credit Card — with an option to hold the value in BitCoins until it’s … Four short links: 15 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 15, 2012 Reproducibility Initiative (Science Exchange) — a service offering researchers who will attempt to reproduce your work. Validated studies will receive a Certificate of Reproducibility acknowledging that their results have been independently reproduced as part of the Reproducibility Initiative. Researchers have … Smart notebooks for linking virtual teams across the net
By Andy OramAugust 13, 2012 Who has the gumption to jump into the crowded market for collaboration tools and call for a comprehensive open source implementation? Perhaps just Miles Fidelman, a networking expert whose experience spans time with Bolt, Beranek and Newman, work on military … Open source wonBy Roger MagoulasJuly 30, 2012 I heard the comments a few times at the 14th OSCON: The conference has lost its edge. The comments resonated with my own experience — a shift in demeanor, a more purposeful, optimistic attitude, less itching for a fight. Yes, … Inside GitHub’s role in community-building and other open source advances
By Andy OramJuly 26, 2012 In this video interview, Matthew McCullough of GitHub discusses what they’ve learned over time as they grow and watch projects develop there. Highlights from the full video interview include: How GitHub builds on Git’s strengths to allow more people to … Democratizing data, and other notes from the Open Source convention
By Andy OramJuly 25, 2012 There has been enormous talk over the past few years of open data and what it can do for society, but proponents have largely come to admit: data is not democratizing in itself. This topic is hotly debated, and a … Four short links: 20 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 20, 2012 Intercepted Drones — The demonstration of the near-disaster, led by Professor Todd Humphreys and his team at the UTA’s Radionavigation Laboratory, points to a “gaping hole” in the US’s plan to open US airspace to thousands of drones, Fox noted: … Social networks are not communities, and other discussions from the Community Leadership Summit
By Andy OramJuly 16, 2012 The Community Leadership Summit this past weekend roused thoughts in me about the predictions and analyses I’ve heard over the past few years about social networking and to contrast them with what we were saying about community. I realized that … Clinician, researcher, and patients working together: progress aired at Indivo conferenceBy Andy OramJune 21, 2012 SMART and Indivo offer a far-reaching platform for giving patients access to data and working seemlessly with other cooperating institutions. Clinician, researcher, and patients working together: progress aired at Indivo conference
By Andy OramJune 21, 2012 SMART and Indivo offer a far-reaching platform for giving patients access to data and working seemlessly with other cooperating institutions. Four short links: 8 June 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJune 8, 2012 HAproxy -- high availability proxy, cf Varnish. Opera Reviews SPDY -- thoughts on the high-performance HTTP++ from a team with experience implementing their own protocols. Section 2 makes a good intro to the features of SPDY if you've not been keeping up. Jetpants -- Tumblr's automation toolkit for handling monstrously large MySQL database topologies. (via Hacker News) LeakedIn --... Four short links: 15 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 15, 2012 Mobile Money (The Economist) -- Many people know that "mobile money"—financial transactions on mobile phones—has taken off in Africa. How far it has gone, though, still comes as a bit of a shock. Three-quarters of the countries that use mobile money most frequently are in Africa, and mobile banking in some of them has reached extraordinary levels. Akka --... Lucene conference touches many areas of growth in searchBy Andy OramMay 11, 2012 With a modern search engine and smart planning, web sites can provide visitors with a better search experience than Google. Why turn-out for the new "big data" track was lower than I expected, and other news from this week's conference about using Lucene big and small. Lucene conference touches many areas of growth in search
By Andy OramMay 11, 2012 With a modern search engine and smart planning, web sites can provide visitors with a better search experience than Google. Why turn-out for the new "big data" track was lower than I expected, and other news from this week's conference about using Lucene big and small. Four short links: 7 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 7, 2012 Liquid Feedback -- MIT-licensed voting software from the Pirate Party. See this Spiegel Online piece about how it is used for more details. (via Tim O'Reilly) Putting Gestures Into Objects (Ars Technica) -- Disney and CMU have a system called Touché, where objects can tell whether they're being clasped, swiped, pinched, etc. and by how many fingers. (via BoingBoing)... Recombinant Research: Breaking open rewards and incentivesBy Andy OramMay 2, 2012 To move from a hothouse environment of experimentation to the mainstream of one of the world's most lucrative and tradition-bound industries, Sage Bionetworks must aim for its nucleus: rewards and incentives. Comparisons to open source software and a summary of tasks for Sage Congress. Recombinant Research: Breaking open rewards and incentives
By Andy OramMay 2, 2012 To move from a hothouse environment of experimentation to the mainstream of one of the world's most lucrative and tradition-bound industries, Sage Bionetworks must aim for its nucleus: rewards and incentives. Comparisons to open source software and a summary of tasks for Sage Congress. The UK's battle for open standards
By Simon WardleyMay 2, 2012 Influence, money, a bit of drama — not things you typically associate with open standards, yet that's what the U.K. government is facing as it evaluates open options. 1 to 50 of 306 Next Stay Connected
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