Tag Archives: Open Standards

What You Need to Know About the Semantic Web

February 9, 2009 – 4:18 pm

The February 2009 issue of Harvard Business Review has an article in their Breakthrough Ideas for 2009 series that addresses What You Need to Know About the Semantic Web. I was happy to see the semantic web being talked about seriously in a business magazine. I think the author is right when he says that [...]

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The (not so well thought out) case against Web apps

January 29, 2009 – 5:47 pm

I just read Neil McAllister’s post: The case against Web apps. I couldn’t resist sharing my thoughts on what he had to say (and I wonder now if his article was intended as a troll).
“1. It’s client-server all over again… Scaling small server farms to meet demand can be a real challenge — just [...]

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CSS for Web Developers

January 17, 2009 – 3:37 pm

The Burlington, VT PHP Users Group will be meeting Thursday January 22nd from from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Since we (Found Line) recently had some demolition – I mean renovations – done we’ve got a bit more space so thought we’d finally host the meeting. Here’s a description of the presentation, “CSS for Web [...]

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VPR Reports Campaign 2008

November 4, 2008 – 4:31 pm

For coverage of local Vermont and national election news, check out the VPR Reports Campaign 2008 page that we (well, Jason really) put together. The 2008 Election Map is a Flash widget provided by NPR but other than that the page is all XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript (via jQuery and jQuery UI). Check back throughout [...]

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Proprietary Skype

October 13, 2008 – 8:13 am

Peter Saint-Andre (Executive Director of the XMPP Standards Foundation) has pointed out the Free Software Foundation’s recent addition of a “Free software replacement for Skype” to its list of High Priority Free Software Projects:
Skype is a proprietary Voice-over-IP program that uses a proprietary protocol. Skype is seducing free software users into using proprietary software, often [...]

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