Archive for April, 2008
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
It will be interesting to know the impact that this will have on Google. They seem to be eroding their stand of "not being evil". Increasingly, I see the detrimental effects that being public listed can have on a company's stand and directions. I don't think the founders would have ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Somehow, I believe we have this problem too. High pay, low working hours etc. Resonates very well with what I sense around me.mollymeek: Send this to the ST Forum 5: S'poreans Complacent and Greedy Singaporeans are becoming more and more complacent. They think that the government will take care ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
It appeared that previously, RFID tags can only identify groups of objects. Any attempt to track objects individually (for example a specific bottle of shampoo as opposed to the entire brand of shampoos on sale) was costly and ineffective. The advancement in RFID technology now solves this problem.RFID reader can ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
An excellent graphical comparison between Google's App Engine and Amazon EC2. Google seems to offer a better whole product solution that Amazon EC2 because of their ability to leverage on web frameworks, toolkits and their social graphs.
Amazon seems to be stronger on the infrastructure side - The flexibility to integrate ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Valid points made. But it does not address one key issue - how difficult it is for business guys to convince smart hackers to work together.Does a Business Guy have a Place in Software Startups? - Tony Wright dot com It turns out that it’s not so simple as ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Y Combinator is a venture firm based in the States which provides funding, networks and mentorship for early stage web technology startups. The underlying philosophy of the founders are that young hackers are smart, and should start their own company than to be miserably stuck working in cubicles.Peter Christensen toyed ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
A good checklist to guard against cross site scripting attacks. I believe most of the web frameworks (especially RoR, CakePHP and Django) out there should have in-built protection against all these attacks?XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Cheat Sheet
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Two inspiring videos. A father who went all out to give his son a normal life, and a young girl who has a talent for playing the piano.Dear parents. Before you start worrying about how badly your child did in school, and whether you need to schedule more tuition lessons ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I'm not sure whether this news is positive or negative. On one hand, Google is making everything free for everyone. On the other hand, free web applications edges out small web startups who needs the income to sustain themselves. It's interesting to observe how sustainable a business model based on ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Bret Taylor suggested having a Wikipedia for Data. It's not a novel idea, considering that Freebase is up and I have meddled around with a similar idea concept that I submitted to Y-combinator earlier. Adrian Holovaty, founder of web framework Django and programmer-journalist, also suggested something similar when he proposed ...
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