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February 2008 - Posts

JotSpot relaunches as Google's ECM entrant

Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:56 PM by loufranco
Just got the notification from Google that JotSpot (acquired in 2006) has been relaunched as Sites inside of Google Apps . With Sites, Google Docs, GMail, and Calendar, Google Apps now has most of the features of SharePoint and has to be considered an Read More...
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Clojure Presentation In Northampton

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:13 AM by loufranco
On March 20th, the regular meeting of the Western Mass Developer's Group will feature Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure. Clojure is a dialect of Lisp that compiles to Java Bytecode and runs on the JVM. It features persistent, immutable data structures Read More...
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Today in Image Processing News

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:16 AM by loufranco
A Chinese newspaper got caught altering a photograph : It all started in 2006 when China neared completion of its massive, high-altitude, $4 billion Qinghai-Xizang railway that connects Tibet with "China proper." Environmentalists had protested loudly Read More...
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JPEG and JPEG 2000

Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:03 AM by loufranco
Found this very good description of how JPEG and JPEG 2000 compression works . Before we begin, let's naively determine how much computer storage should be required for this image. First, the image is arranged in a rectangular grid of pixels whose dimensions Read More...
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AJAX v. Flash: Another Datapoint

Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 9:27 PM by loufranco
Last week, I wondered why Scribd uses Flash instead of AJAX and mentioned that it wouldn't work on my iPhone. Today I read that Debian has removed flash from their distribution . Sure, the number of Debian installations won't even show up in the 3rd decimal Read More...
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Business of Software Conference

Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:15 AM by loufranco
The 2nd annual Business of Software Conference will be in Boston in the Fall. The conference is a off-shoot of the very popular BoS Forum on JoelOnSoftware . The site has videos up from last year's conference. I found this one on measuring your code's Read More...
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Why AJAX for Enterprise Image Viewing

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:50 AM by loufranco
I've been seeing a lot of recent announcements for Flash-based document viewing. For example, Scribd just announced iPaper, a document viewer plus what appears to be a new format for documents. Today, Scribd released a vastly improved upgrade to its document Read More...
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Why Office formats are so complicated

Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:19 AM by loufranco
Joel Spolsky explains why Office formats are so complicated (and why that makes sense): A lot of the complexities in these file formats reflect features that are old, complicated, unloved, and rarely used. They’re still in the file format for backwards Read More...
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Stream-Oriented Programming in PowerShell

Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 4:12 PM by loufranco
While preparing my PowerShell presentation a few weeks ago, I was reminded of this explanation of stream processing from the SICP lectures . This concept is widely used in Unix shells, but is really taken to the next level in PowerShell. In fact, after Read More...
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Microsoft Releases Office File Specifications

Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 3:48 PM by loufranco
This is good news : The Word, Excel and PowerPoint file format specifications, which were previously only available from Microsoft by request, were published on Friday, together with details of an open-source Office binary-to-Office Open XML (OOXML) translator Read More...
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