In 1958 “Disneyland” TV Show episode entitled “Magic Highway USA” an exploration into possible “their” future Transportation technologies is made.
It’s hard to believe how little we’ve accomplished on this front since 1958, and how limited the scope for imagining such future technologies has become. Witness an artifact from a time where the future was greeted with optimism. Note the striking animation style here, achieved with fairly limited animation and spectacular layouts:
According to Ubuntu once Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) is out, there will be plenty to celebrate, whether you were directly involved in the release process or just rejoice because the next iteration of the best distribution is finally out.
Thursday, 18th of October ‘2007 is the tentative date for Ubuntu 7.10. Many parties will be on this date, or you can pick your own date! Go ahead and put down your favorite pub, park or cafe and celebrate getting Gutsy Gibbon out of the door!
get it while its hot 
Come and join Ubuntu parties all over the Globe! The schedule of already "Confirmed Parties" are here.
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So you need to learn (about) this technology… So you go to google… So you spent X minutes (hours? days?) to find a good candidate-article (tutorial, how to, step-by-step guide, etc.)… So you finish reading it… and most of the time you doing what? - exactly! - going back to google and keep searching.
More often than not there are two main things that we are looking for when we need to learn something new:
See the difference? Here it is - the "first fast" goes for the quality of content that a source has to offer. The better the quantity, the more we learn, the faster we learn. And the "second fast" goes to the amount of time we search for that source of knowledge.
The "first fast" is going to be solved by only dealing with SIMPLE tutorials/guides/ideas about many simple and comlex topics. Simplicity is the key to solve "the quality of content" problem. Think about an IBM Redbook on something you do not know about, let’s say web services. Although it is a great book - lot’s of content - it is a very poor example of an efficient tutorial (not for all, but for most), it just has too much and will take hours to go through. Most of the time a redbook will make you quite sleepy on the page number 24 (my own observation).
And for comparison take this picture from soaspecs.com:
and spice it up with "SOAP::Lite for Perl" quick guide.
A combination of the two (pic and guide) will take you 5-10 minutes to go over and will make you understand what/how/why/etc.. about webservices. Although the guide is Perl based, it will by no means distract you from understanding the material even if you are not familiar with Perl, why? Because it is SIMPLE, that’s why.
In order to solve the "second fast", I would like to speak to everybody who is going to read this post. If you have a very cool and SIMPLE tutorial, how-to, guide, etc.., please share it with everybody by going to the comments section of this post and putting one or more links to it, or ideas where to get these very simple tutorials.
Later on I will compile this list, and either post it on a different website (if you like, I can put your name as a contributor, with a link to the tutorial/idea and your website, if you have it) or I will create a different post. This will be solving the "second fast" - decreasing the time of searching for the right source.
Apply yourself - KISS that technology!
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Times Square is a major intersection in Manhattan, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.
Like Red Square in Moscow, Champs-Elysées in Paris, Trafalgar Square in London, or Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Times Square has achieved the status of an iconic world landmark and has become a symbol of its home city. Times Square is principally defined by its lighted and animated advertisements. Here is one of such advertisements :
Thought for a while about creating a virtual band? Well, then you’ll need these virtual instruments
Once in a while my friends need to get something from these huge stores stuffed with electronics. So they drag me along to help them review whatever it is they are after. Since most of the time I buy that kind of stuff online, I quickly get bored walking down those isles, and stop at the one with all these cool pianos (keyboards). There I spent most of my time practicing, while my friends are looking for stuff.
Recently I was googling for something and found Colin’s blog, which had a cool link to this amazing virtual piano with several different modes: organ, saxophone, drums, flute, guitar, strings, bass, etc.
Then I went further and found this great virtual drumkit which probably requires a real mouse, but gives a very realistic feeling:
There are many more cool virtual instruments out there, so feel free to expand this list by adding more links.
Let’s get to jamming people!
Let’s go Open Source! Here is the top 10 Open Source projects for the month of March’ 2007 from the main OS repository sourceforge.net:
1. Azureus
Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client.
2. FileZilla
FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of
features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server.
3. ADempiere Bazaar
Adempiere is an ERP Bazaar for Open Source Developers that contribute
improvements of Compiere, CRM, Shopfloor, POS, Helpdesk, Financials
Accounting, Supply Chain, Knowledge and Business apps in an open and
unabated fashion. Focus is on the Community.
4. ZK - Simply Ajax
ZK is Ajax framework enriching Web apps with little programming. With
event-driven components and XUL/XHTML markup languages, developing is as
simple as programming desktops and authoring HTML pages. Scripting
support Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy…
5. Gaim
Gaim is a GTK+ instant messaging application. It supports multiple
protocols, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster,
Gadu-Gadu, Zephyr, and SILC. It has many common features found in other
clients, as well as many unique features
6. phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the
administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop
databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any
SQL statement, manage keys on fields.
7. Openbravo ERP
Web based ERP for SMEs, built on proven MVC & MDD framework that
facilitate customization & maintenance of code. Already in production,
it encompasses a broad range of functionalities such as finance, supply
chain, project mgmt, manufacturing & much more
8. Inkscape
A Linux, Windows & OSX vector graphics editor (SVG format) featuring
transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG export, and
more. Aiming for capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc.
9. pydev for eclipse
Python Development Environment (Python IDE plugin for Eclipse). Features
editor, code completion, refactoring, outline view, debugger, and other
goodies - check http://pydev.sf.net)
10. KeePass Password Safe
KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, light-weight and
easy-to-use password manager for Windows. You can store your passwords
in a highly-encrypted database, which is locked with one master password
or key file.
