Programs designed to deliver pop-up advertising have multiplied like viruses in recent months and consumers should get used to it: Companies behind the pop-ups are signing up brand-name advertisers, winning court battles and rolling in cash.
A new technology under development in Berkeley could help thousands of long-dead Americans to “speak” again. Using a tool normally used for particle physics research, two scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are investigating how to extract clear, audible voices from broken, mold-eaten and otherwise unplayable early recordings.
according to:http://www.macromedia.com/software/devices/products/flashlite/ :
Flash Lite is the Macromedia Flash profile specifically developed for mobile phones. Flash Lite has seen explosive adoption by Japanese consumers and developers alike, and now it is quickly gaining adoption from operators and manufacturers outside of Japan.
Matt Cashner provides a high-level introduction to POE, the Perl Object Environment, examining the concepts that POE brings to bear when designing long-running Perl applications.
Through his LibraryLookup project, Jon Udell finds that you don’t need to understand what REST is in order to benefit from its use in a system.
There has been a lot of discussion lately about scalability, brought about by Friendster’s move to PHP. Once again, I am amazed at how many people don’t understand what scalability means (even though I’m glad to see fewer and fewer people misspelling it). Scalability means “How well a solution to some problem will work when the size of the problem increases” (from Dictionary.com). This is interpreted in drastically different ways, and you can find my interpretation in What Is Scalability?.
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Everyone wants their Perl code to run faster. Unfortunately, without understanding why the code is taking so long to start with, it’s impossible to know where to start optimizing it. This is where “profiling” comes in; it lets us know what our programs are doing.
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