Software Development

I just read about... SharpOS 0.0.1 ...which is an Open Source project attempting to write an Operating System (OS) in C# based on Microsoft .Net technology. I'm not sure about the .Net part of the statement. But, I downloaded the 840KB...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The operating system on your computer is becoming less and less important. Really. In the next three to four years, I think the desktop OS will become a minimal consideration. Why? Because most...

The other month I blogged about OpenOffice and the fact that it tends to be marginalized in the face of free and commercial products. Most readers did not particularly like that stance. Lou Dolinar just blogged about OpenOffice, but focused instead on...

Apache released their HTTP Server 2.2.9 on Friday the 13th last month (obviously no superstitious people on the release team). Apache HTTP Server 2.2.9 Released Every now and then, I install the latest Apache web server on a Windows server just to...

Just spotted this by Paula Bach over on Microsoft's Port 25 site... CodePlex project developers wanted The data from the project will be used for Paula's PhD dissertation project which looks at usability support features in Open Source projects....

Teaching Open Source development requires Open Source ways. I teach at Seneca College in Toronto, and we've been teaching inside the Mozilla community for the last three years with some very good results (I'll be talking about this at OLS in a...

I haven't been blogging much lately, and for the first time since I started this blog, I've only managed one post all month.

There has been plenty to talk about, but I've been too busy with both work and play to keep up. I'll try to recap the previous month (roughly in chronological order) for posterity.

• I saw Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová at Radio City Music Hall, which was possibly the best show I've ever seen. (It's tough to beat the Indigo Girls, though.) If you live in NY, and you're not going to ZendCon, you can see them in Central Park in September.
• I went to Chicago for php|tek, easily one the best PHP conferences each year. I got to celebrate my birthday at Shoeless Joe's while watching the Champions League final, and I ended the day with a brief stint as a rock star.
• My wife and I took a canoe down the Delaware River with some friends, and we camped on a small island. I rediscovered my hatred for stinging nettles.
• I gave a keynote at the DC PHP Conference on the intersection of security and user experience. As with most new talks, it was unpolished, but I'll be giving an updated, polished version of it at ZendCon. (See you there?)
• I enjoyed the Telectroscope, despite not managing to convince Matt, Lorna, or anyone else to meet up on the London side. Luckily, I managed to convince a few people that it was real, so that was fun. :-) It was conveniently located a few steps away from OmniTI NY, and I took some photos while it was here.
• The Euro Cup started. :-)
• My blog was featured in Smashing Magazine again, this time for the pretty blockquote and note styles Jon designed.
• Motivated by Andrei, I started the hundred push-ups challenge. This commitment also persuaded me to check my various style guides to see whether it's pushup, push up, or push-up. :-) News spread quickly on Twitter, and there is now a group of PHPers all taking part in the challenge.
• Theo was mentioned on Radar again for his detailed post on Internet traffic spikes.
• I got to witness a colleague's first encounter with T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM, which I enjoyed far too much.

I'll leave you with the PHP anthem from Rasmus. If you're a Mac user, just enter the following in the terminal:

say -v Good oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ow oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ow oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ow oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ouchie

If you're not a Mac user, Terry has an MP3.

Sing it with me...

Posted Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:44:02 GMT in Chris Shiflett's Blog

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I know, yet another note capture / organize program… but this one’s different. It’s got really powerful OCR software (it will pull text from images, even handwriting) that automatically finds words in your images and indexes them, making it easier to find later. Works on the web, your mobile phone, and PC or Mac. Best of all, it’s free!
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