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Free and Open Web, please 3 Dec 2012 | 02:29 pm
Remember SOPA? Well it was never a lost fight for the governments (it is not just USA, Spain, France and Italy have already passed similar laws. See A Comparative Look at SOPA and Similar Laws around ...
Symbian – a post mortem – By Mika Raento 14 Oct 2012 | 04:48 am
This is a post by Mika Raento, mikie@iki.fi, 2012-10-13 published first in a public Google Doc (You could actually call this a S60 post-mortem since I mostly write about what Nokia did with symbian bu...
Science today – Simple Scenario of Research Paper use- The Unclaimed Claims 12 Sep 2012 | 03:19 pm
A: That moment, when you read a paper and you know one of the cited authors A: *quote from the paper which is citing here, with a claim* B: aha! B: cool, which paper? A: wait, let me give you ...
Research data on the cloud!? Here comes Amazon Glacier 23 Aug 2012 | 05:24 pm
Amazon Glacier is a low-cost storage service that aims to provide durable storage for data archiving and backup. In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently a...
Vocabulary for the Registration and Description of Research Data Repositories 3 Aug 2012 | 04:57 pm
re3data.org is an interesting project aiming to create a global registry of research data repositories. As they manifest, “The registry will cover research data repositories from different academic di...
How to know which company is distributing your email to spammers 27 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
I have been wondering since some time on who is giving away my email for spam ideals. It is impossible to have an email where you don’t get a new offer from companies you never heard and sometimes tha...
ZF2 – Sharing and reusing DB connection for dummies 20 Jul 2012 | 10:15 pm
While we were used to pass the DB-Connection to a Register or later this practice was improved by retrieving it from the Bootstrap in Zend Framework 1, the ZF2 has a new service layer which looks like...
Why Semantic Web in Digital Libraries 19 Jul 2012 | 06:32 pm
Malachi (the librarian) looked at me sternly: “Perhaps you do not know, or have forgotten, that only the librarian is allowed access to the library. It is therefore right and sufficient that only libr...
PhpCloud quick note on DSN 4 Jul 2012 | 09:10 pm
Cloud is the new magical word of these 2 years and a lot of solutions are moving to Clouds which basically is a set of web-apps hosted on the internet. There have been a few php-cloud solutions as we...
Drink your own milk idiom is better then Eat your own dog-food 19 Jun 2012 | 09:29 pm
I was following up the twiter account of the Albanian Minister of IT (or something similar, it is just a branch of the Albanian Government which does pretty much nothing I am aware of) and I found thi...
