Coming To The Big Island This Week? The Helicopter Tour Might Be Worth It

\<a href="http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/archive/2007/Jul/DSCN1003_L.jpg"" target="_blank" atomicselection="true" rel="noopener noreferrer">Since I blogged the pause and restart of Pu'u O'o, for completeness I will report that the eruption on The Big Island of Hawai'i has not only returned …

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BS On Rails

Kurt Schrader wonders if he's the first person to hit a point in a Rails app where he wonders if he's "finally hit the point where the cost of maintaining our code in Ruby is higher than the savings by writing it in Ruby in the first place?"

He says …

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Dr. Dobb's Goes Flash-Based

Huh. I just received a link in email to "my" August issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal. I'm not going to post the link I got, since it's undoubtedly linked to me, but can anyone access http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cmp/ddj0807/index.php?

It's a Flash-based interface, but even …

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Turing Award Boosted to $250K: Put On Your Thinking Caps!

Google is joining Intel in putting more cash into the kitty for the Turing Award. To me, \\(250K is nonsensical -- you should either go for the million (Who Wants To Be A CS Millionaire?) or maintain the super-coolness of the \<a href="http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/aboutus/jcfields/fields …

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VSTS 2008 Beta 2 VPC Available for Download

Come and get it

P.S. I really, really like this use of VPCs.

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Intel Open-Sources Its Excellent Threading Building Blocks Library

The very good Threading Building Blocks library from Intel, released last year around this time as 1.0 and being updated soon, has been \<a href="http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20070724fact.htm%3fiid%3dpr1_releasepri_20070724fact"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">open-sourced by Intel.  This is a …

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Microsoft's Parallel Computing Team Is Hiring

We're hiring developers and testers for the Parallel Computing team in Microsoft's Developer Division....[Contact] joedu at microsoft dot com if you are interested.

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TiVo HD for $299: HDTV Temptation Increases

Interesting, my analysis from last November is unchanged other than time-shifting and yet, emotionally, the availability of TiVo makes a huge impact. On the other hand, I am not sure that they would allow me to change my current TiVo lifetime subscription over to the TiVoHD, so I'd be facing …

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First IronRuby Drop Available

John Lam details the first public availability of IronRuby. Couple reasons why I'm interested in this:

  • It's Ruby
  • It's the CLR
  • It's a second data point for how to code for the DLR

I don't think I'm going to be able to resist the temptation to write a compiler for …

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