Sunday, September 5, 2010

AVM - FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7390 (20002448)

AVM - FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7390 (20002448) (That's the "castrated" Germany-only version.)

Both amazon.de (web shop) and Saturn / Berlin / Europa-Center sell it not for EUR 215 resp. EUR 210 (Saturn).

BTW: The Annex A version is due within a couple of days.

zsync fills a gap in the technology available for large-scale file distribution

zsync

Found this through an openSUSE-11.4 announcement.

Songbird 1.8.0 adds support for more devices - The H Open Source: News and Features

Songbird 1.8.0 adds support for more devices - The H Open Source: News and Features

Google helps you OCR-ing your document

DocList API OCR Demo

Google SketchUp 3D modeling tool

Google SketchUp 3D modeling tool

Your Money: The Missing Manual - O'Reilly Media

Your Money: The Missing Manual - O'Reilly Media

The New Community Rules - O'Reilly Media

The New Community Rules - O'Reilly Media

The Twitter Book - O'Reilly Media

The Twitter Book - O'Reilly Media

You should get this sampler from the above book. They give you a great free introduction to Twitter there.

Google Press Center: the Google Twitter directory

Google Press Center: Twitter Directory

Facebook APIs are Open – Except if your too big (e.g. for Apple Ping). « Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog

Facebook APIs are Open – Except if your too big. « Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog

Take your Google Contacts with you - "Portable Contacts"

Social Web Blog: Take your Google Contacts with you

Homebrew — The missing package manager for OS X

Homebrew — MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew!

the Google Buzz team delivers Track, the long lost Twitter feature

Tracking the Buzz in Google Reader During VMworld

Google Apps Hacks - O'Reilly Media

Google Apps Hacks - O'Reilly Media

Apparently they don't offer this book as e-book.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Ruby-FFI is a ruby extension for programmatically loading dynamic libraries, ...

ffi's ffi at master - GitHub

seamless access incl. launching to Ruby source and other files inside zip archives

byuni's ruby_archive at master - GitHub

German government, states must play role in Sarrazin dismissal, law professor Hans Herbert von Arnim says - Bloomberg

German Government, States Must Play Role in Sarrazin Dismissal, law professor Hans Herbert von Arnim says - Bloomberg

I love that. That's effectively a no go. Sarrazin must be a pretty smart chess player. He must have foreseen that, and now can he also enjoy his enemies' disaster. Congratulations to him.

I think, the way he gets perceived by most of his critics is simply put silly. They hate him for whatever, now they try to destroy his reputation entirely.

From what I know about him, he is definitely not anti-semitic. The jewish gene thing got brought up by Israeli scientists. He only quotes that.

Coast Guard: Offshore oil rig in Gulf of Mexico explodes

Coast Guard: Offshore oil rig in Gulf of Mexico explodes

Thursday, September 2, 2010

APRESS.COM : The Definitive Guide to Catalyst: Writing Extensible, Scalable and Maintainable Perl–Based Web Applications : 9781430223658

The Definitive Guide to Catalyst: Learn to build web applications with Catalyst, the popular open-source web framework based on the Perl programming language. The Definitive Guide to Catalyst: Writing Extendable, Scalable, and Maintainable Perl-Based Web Applications is a definitive guide to Catalyst version 5.8.

APRESS.COM : The Definitive Guide to CentOS – today for just USD 10

APRESS.COM : The Definitive Guide to CentOS : 9781430219309


Book Details
The Definitive Guide to CentOS book cover
  • By Peter Membrey, Tim Verhoeven, Ralph Angenendt
  • ISBN13: 9781430219309
  • ISBN10: 1430219300
  • 352 pp.
  • Pub Date: 2009-07-09
  • eBook Price: $27.99

CentOS is just like Red Hat, but without the price tag and with the virtuous license. When belts have to be tightened, we want to read about an OS with all the features of a commercial Linux variety, but without the pain. The Definitive Guide to CentOS is the first definitive reference for CentOS and focuses on CentOS alone, the workhorse Linux distro, that does the heavy lifting in small and medium-size enterprises without drawing too much attention to itself.
  • Provides tutorial and hands-on learning but is also designed to be used as a reference
  • Bases all examples on real-world tasks that readers are likely to perform
  • Serves up hard-won examples and hints and tips from the author's experiences of CentOS in production

What you’ll learn

  • See why CentOS is an ideal platform for deploying services on the same level as Redhat Enterprise Linux without the cost.
  • Prepare and install a CentOS server from scratch.
  • Install and configure core services.
  • Follow best practices for managing and administering the server and its services.
  • Integrate enterprise features in CentOS/Red Hat networks.
  • And finally, move away from Fedora, which has great features, but is not meant to be a server OS!

Who is this book for?

Both beginning and experienced system administrators who want to have an industrial–strength Linux server distribution at their fingertips

Caribbean Islands - Martinique - published by Lonely Planet

Caribbean Islands - Martinique - Download Lonely Planet Chapter

Found this nice book on the Caribbean Islands from lonelyplanet.com at Amazon. Wondered, whether it's not possible to get the book as PDF. Well, yes, and even better: I could select the chapters I am interested in. So I went for Martinique at EUR 3.50. Great deal!

apress.com: Raven – Scripting Java Builds with Ruby

APRESS.COM : Raven: Scripting Java Builds with Ruby : 9781590598757

Book Details
Raven: Scripting Java Builds with Ruby book cover
  • By Matthieu Riou
  • ISBN13: 9781590598757
  • ISBN10: 159059875x
  • 64 pp.
  • Pub Date: 2007-06-25
  • eBook Price: $13.99

Raven is a Ruby-based build system that leverages Ruby tools (namely Rake and Gems) to help you effectively and easily manage your Java projects, providing a way to handle dependencies and specific tasks for Java. Raven: Scripting Java Builds with Ruby covers the most productive and flexible Java build tool around with the following approach:
  • Uses practical examples and concise explanations to show you how to effectively use Raven
  • Summarizes best practices and delves into coverage of the more complex scenarios you will inevitably encounter when using Raven
  • Empowers you to set up a complete build environment in no time

What you’ll learn

  • Why Gems are useful and how to manage your local Gem repository
  • How to create your first Rake file, effectively use Ravens command-line features, and manage task dependencies
  • How to execute Raven tasks and adhere to best practices by following along with a number of simple yet practical examples
  • How to wrap your Java code into your own Gems, allowing you to easily maintain, reuse, and disseminate your code using the Gem packaging system
  • How to apply advanced techniques like building your own Gem repository and more

Who is this book for?

Any beginning, intermediate, or advanced Java developer or architect having some interest in using the Ruby language to supplement their skill set. Readers interested in build tools such as Ant and Maven will also find this book appealing.

APRESS.COM : Developing with Google App Engine : 9781430218319

APRESS.COM : Developing with Google App Engine : 9781430218319
Book Details
Developing with Google App Engine book cover
  • By Eugene Ciurana
  • ISBN13: 9781430218319
  • ISBN10: 1430218312
  • 164 pp.
  • Pub Date: 2009-02-02
  • eBook Price: $13.99

Developing with Google App Engine introduces development with Google App Engine, a platform that provides developers and users with infrastructure Google itself uses to develop and deploy massively scalable applications.
  • Introduction to concepts
  • Development with App Engine
  • Deployment into App Engine

What you’ll learn

  • Create processes that are ideal for cloud platforms.
  • Design data for the cloud.
  • Learn what types of applications are ideal for the cloud.
  • Deploy web applications into the cloud.
  • Measure the success and health of the cloud.

Who is this book for?

Python developers, developers interested in massive scaling, and developers interested in Google or cloud computing

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Pro HTML5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development

Pro HTML5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development

CEDET 1.0 adds IDE features to Emacs - The H Open Source: News and Features

CEDET 1.0 adds IDE features to Emacs - The H Open Source: News and Features

Sony rises to digital-media challenge - Yahoo! Finance

Sony rises to digital-media challenge - Yahoo! Finance

book: Pragmatic Guide to Subversion

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Pragmatic Guide to Subversion

new book: Cloud Application Architectures - O'Reilly Media

Cloud Application Architectures - O'Reilly Media

movie: The Mist (2007)

The Mist (2007)

I am seriously not into scary movies, but this one isnt't bad. My recommendation.