Virtual Black Marker
by jpreardon on October 15, 2007
The folks over at Xerox’s PARC have unveiled some new scanner technology that is designed to, well, veil certain things. Their new intelligent redaction technology automatically detects sensitive text in documents and protects it from the gaze of unapproved eyes. (…)
Amazon S3 SLA
by jpreardon on October 11, 2007
Amazon announced that they are now backing their simple storage service (S3) with an Service Level Agreement (SLA). Personally, I trust that Amazon’s services will work as advertised even in the absence of an SLA. But, not everyone agrees with (…)
journa-list.com
by jpreardon on October 11, 2007
journa-list.com is a free website that tracks what individual journalists in the UK are writing about. The site catalogs the articles a journalist has written over time so you can read and compare past articles. The site is currently indexing (…)
Commuting Cleverly
by jpreardon on October 9, 2007
Clever Commute taps into the collective experience of commuters in an effort to make their commute easier. The free service connects people that ride the same train or bus line so they can send alerts to other riders about potential (…)
Adding Tags to the Connections Theme
by jpreardon on October 9, 2007
Upgrading to WordPress version 2.3 will give you tags. But, all that taggy goodness will be invisible unless your theme has tag support built in. The Connections theme (currently in use here) has not been modified by the author since (…)
WordPress Installations & Upgrades with Subversion
by jpreardon on October 4, 2007
If you’ve hosted a WordPress blog for any amount of time, you are probably familiar with the traditional upgrade procedure. It is fairly painless, but it involves downloading and copying files. If you have some custom files somewhere, you run (…)
Free Rails Book
by jpreardon on October 2, 2007
The PDF version of Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications by Patrick Lenz is available for free for the next 60 days. Click over to Sitepoint to download the complete book (20MB). The book introduces Ruby on Rails (…)