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John Kern Covers Mobile Computing

William Grosso @ May 29, 2006

When it comes to technology, I'm overly inquisitive. But I'm also lazy and humble.
So when I read about projects like Nokia's port of the Apache Web Server to their cellphones, I want to know more (that's the inquisitive part). But I don't want to think to hard on a holiday weekend (that's the lazy part). [...]

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Open Sourcing Java (from NetBeans Day)

William Grosso @ May 15, 2006

Tim Bray has most of the story. Basically, when asked about open sourcing Java, Rich Green replied with "Why not?"
The part I found interesting was that Rich also said, more or less, that the "why not" was contingent on more community participation. I don't have the exact phrasing, but what he said was something along [...]

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Hashbelts Live On!

William Grosso @ May 9, 2006

A little over four years ago, I wrote a series of articles deriving and describing a new datastructure (and associated algorithm) which I called a Hashbelt. Hashbelts have many nice properties. For one thing, they're easy to implement in almost any modern language. For another, they've also got some performance characteristics which make them close [...]

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And now … Andrew via YouTube

William Grosso @ May 5, 2006

It's kind of stunning. Wordpress (which hosts this blog), Flickr (where I store photos), and YouTube (which I'm using for video) are all fairly simple applications.
But when you put them all together, they add up to an enormous change in the way we deliver baby pictures.
See what I mean?

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Andrew William Grosso

William Grosso @ May 3, 2006

Born on: May 1, 2006
Weight: 7 pounds, 11 ounces.
Length: 20 inches

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