As I pointed out in this post, the internet is far from dead. The current rage is Web 2.0, become familiar with this term as it will dominate the landscape on the ‘Net for the next few years. Web 2.0 represents a significant paradigm shift. That means new opportunities, new challenges, and a whole lot [...]
Wow, amazing….
Most amazing, many years after the Be OS, we finally have…..
Arbitrarily Extensible File System Metadata
Wow, Apple did it. They did it on HFS+. Wow…..
Spotlight absolutely rocks on so many levels, yeah what it does is very cool, but the technical details in implementation are astounding…
I am gonna have fun playing with this….
In the pantheon of the immortals none rate higher than Donald Knuth. Now he has made his musings on computer science available at SCPD – Donald E. Knuth
. So stunningly good I can’t say enough good things about it!
If you write code for a lving or would like to know how professionals do it anything by McConnell is a must read. He just revised and release the all time classic:All Consuming: Book Info: Code Complete, Second Edition (Dv-Professional).
Do yourself a favor and read it all, its the best medicine for a programmer yet…
Tim Bray is a seminal figure in modern computing. He was the co-developer of XML and did a whole bunch of other interesting things. His current project is Antarctica, a very cool visual search engine.
He has written a series on search technology called On Search, it is brilliant and should be a book on the [...]
Started reading Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell. Its a fascinating look at machine learning algorithms.
Essentially these algorithms are a class of algorithms that learn through “experience”. One of the best introductory papers on the subject is Machine learning in automated text categorization.
The particular class of problem I am presently exploring is automatic categorization based [...]