XML.com, by Drew McLellan Feb 09, 2005 "One of the classic drawbacks to building a web application interface is that once a page has been downloaded to the client, the connection to the server is severed."
Simon Mardle and Sean Pascoe - University of Portsmouth - Genetic algorithms (GA) are an evolutionary optimisation approach which are an alternative to traditional optimisation methods.
Kim Gräsman, January 2004 - how to flow context properties from client to server, and why it works the way it does. Unfortunately, it also unveils a couple of serious limitations.
why do we need a new term? Is there anything new going on, or there just a new generation of people discovering the same old thing, like each generation of teenagers discovers sex.
Looking for a way to share digital music without risking a lawsuit? Look at Mercora, a new music-sharing service that adheres to the letter of federal law.
by Peter Sefton, January 26, 2005 - set up templates for authors to use to ensure consistency, reduce effort, and help automate conversation of documents between formats, such as building web pages from office documents.
Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On January 15, Michael Shank interviewed him on the latest developments in U.S. policy toward Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan.
by Mark Larson. "The most important thing to remember is to TIME your code. Trying different tricks might or might not speed up your code. So it is very important to time your code to see if you do get a speedup as you try each trick."
the Future of the Theory, And The Generation of a Living World by Christopher Alexander presentation recorded live in San Jose, California, October, at The 1996 ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA).
trying to introduce people to Bayesian reasoning is that the existing online explanations are too abstract. Bayesian reasoning is very counterintuitive. People do not employ Bayesian reasoning intuitively, find it very difficult to learn Bayesian reason
discuss how paintComponent can be overridden to customize the look of your components, and then we'll discuss a trick that uses paintChildren to paint custom content on top of the component and its children.
Network Address Translation (NAT) causes well-known difficulties for peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, since the peers involved may not be reachable at any globally valid IP address.
PhysOrg, A pioneering new way of creating computer programs could be used in the future to design and build robots with minds that function like that of a human being, according to a leading researcher at The University of Reading.
"Insomnia and being a workaholic is an interesting combination. It is amazing how much work can be accomplished in the eight hours before everyone else comes to work."
Whilst the puzzles here are mainly lateral thinking puzzles, they range from the image type puzzle shown here, through to riddles and other puzzles. Overall, they provide somewhere to exercise the brain muscle and have fun.
is, perhaps, the oldest written story on Earth. It comes to us from Ancient Sumeria, and was originally written on 12 clay tablets in cunieform script. It is about the adventures of the historical King of Uruk (somewhere between 2750 and 2500 BCE).
By: S Kokila "a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Coupled with it being relatively fast and having a very lenient license, it has gained a following among game developers ..."
A Teachable Tree «This diagram is olready a summary, although it would probably be overwhelming for public or high school audiences. There are possibly four recognizable words: "green plants" "Animalia" 'Bacteria' and "Fungi". Maybe.»
in Uninformed Vol1 2005.May by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds. + Ross Moore, Mathematics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney.
by Alan C. Kay ffrom Apple Computer - "Most ideas come from previous ideas. The sixties, particularly in the ARPA community, gave rise to a host of notions..."
Any peer-to-peer publishing system must provide a mechanism for efficiently locating published documents. For censorship resistant systems, it is particularly important that the lookup mechanism be difficult to disable or abuse.
"Why do kids who can't master high school end up as some of the most powerful people in the world? What makes a startup succeed? Will technology create a gap between those who understand it and those who don't? Will Microsoft take over the Internet? What"
By Evan Miller. essay about how you can get paid to write great open-source software. If you're not a software developer, you should probably spend the next few minutes of your leisure time on a web page other than this one.
PhysOrg, Ostar - the latest high-performance light-emitting diode from Osram - is 50 times brighter than comparable predecessor models. Because of its small size (3 cm x 1 cm) and high brightness of 120 lumens (lm),
The term 'social software', which is now used to define software that supports group interaction, has only become relatively popular within the last two or more years.
Graham Wihlidal "There is no such thing as the “perfect networking code”, due to the Internet’s unreliability, but there are a few tricks you can use to improve it to the point where the illusion can hold."