2011
Mr Ethernet - Bob Metcalfe gives Startup advice
Here's some valuable advice for Startups from the King of the Ethernet Bob Metcalfe. Don’t be afraid of going up against entrenched incumbents, like he did with IBM, and its Token Ring technology. Long story short, Metcalfe and Ethernet won. Read about the disruptive technologies he thinks will change everything.
2009
Use Sun SPOTs as your build canary
SPOTs are small wireless devices that run Java programs. Find out how to turn a new, open source wireless device — Sun's Small Programmable Object Technology (SPOT) — into a highly visible indicator of the health of a continuous integration build.
Examine PHP V5.3.0 features under the microscope
As the popular PHP language continues to evolve, many new features enhance its object-oriented aspects. In this article, PHP V5.3 examples illustrate late static binding, namespace support, class method overloading, and variable parsing and heredoc support.
2007
The Strange Heath Robinson Rube Goldberg Computer
The continuing effort to add at least one series of (vacuum) tubes to the Internet progresses with an introduction to he workings of and thinking behind the Heath Robinson Rube Goldberg (HRRG) emulator. Learn how to implement a computer using a mixture of technologies from relays to fluidic logic.
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