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Finance Board Sues 'Seinfeld' Inspiration (Dec 24 2004 14:29 GMT) - It sounds like a "Seinfeld" episode: Kramer runs for mayor, then runs afoul of campaign finance laws and winds up in court as his own lawyer. But this mix of law and laughs is no Larry David script. Instead, David's one-time neighbor Kenny Kramer - the real-life inspiration for the quirky "Seinfeld" character - has a Jan. 5 court date with the... |
Guide to Ease
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HTML Meta Profile For Blogs (Dec 24 2004 14:28 GMT) - HTML Meta Profile For Blogs: this may be the future of small caps metadata. Metadata easily embedded in HTML, and hopefully fairly easily parsable. |
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An Indian sales clerk carries a Santa Claus doll at a store selling holiday... (Dec 24 2004 14:26 GMT) - An Indian sales clerk carries a Santa Claus doll at a store selling holiday items, as Christians in India prepare for Christmas at a local market that caters among others to expatriates in New Delhi, India Friday, Dec. 24, 2004. Although Christians comprise only two percent of the population among a Hindu majority, the holiday is observed across the country as an occasion to celebrate. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel) (Click for Large Photo) [yworld: 2, +carries +christians -population +celebrate] |
Dappled Things
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High-End Vodka Market (Dec 24 2004 14:26 GMT) - A neat piece on NPR's Talk of the Nation yesterday looked at the development and marketing of high-end brands, taking vodka as a case in point. One of the tricks: don't go overboard on popular advertising. |
Gut Rumbles
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try it--you'll like it (Dec 24 2004 14:26 GMT) - I've eaten almost every one of these foods. Most of 'em were pretty damned good, too. (I don't care for... |
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Derby database development with Apache Ant (Dec 24 2004 14:26 GMT) - The open source Derby database engine provides developers with a powerful new tool for lightweight database development. Derby databases are file system based and portable across different types of systems. Because of this, a common strategy is to create databases at development time and ship them with the binary distribution as opposed to having it created on the fly. In this article, author James Snell introduces a handful of Apache Ant tasks that make it easier to incorporate the building and distribution of Derby databases into an application’s build process. |
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DoCoMo Takes Stake in Linux Developer (Dec 24 2004 14:26 GMT) - NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese telecom service provider, has invested $3 million in MontaVista Software, a developer of Linux-based mobile middleware. DoCoMo recently signed agreements with NEC and Panasonic to provide smartphone handsets based on MontaVista's operating system. |
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Java rebel frameworks touted (Dec 24 2004 14:26 GMT) - Java 'rebel frameworks' -- open source projects with programming models and APIs that do not conform to the JCP (Java Community Process) standard -- are presenting alternatives and supplements to J2EE technologies, according to an industry analyst report released by the Burton Group this week. |
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Opera releases talking Web browser (Dec 24 2004 14:26 GMT) - Opera Software released a test version of a major update to its Web browser software Thursday, intensifying its efforts, along with open-source rival Firefox, to cut into Microsoft's market share. |
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New Year's resolution for Firefox: Grow (Dec 24 2004 14:26 GMT) - Forty-five days and some 13 million downloads after its official release, Mozilla's Firefox browser is showing undeniable momentum--but does it signal the beginning of the end to Microsoft's monopoly over the basic software used to access the Web? |
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An Open-Source Solution For Content Management (Dec 24 2004 14:26 GMT) - Most companies with a considerable Web presence have bitten the bullet and migrated to a commercial content-management system (CMS). The benefits of a CMS include the ability to assign content ownership and responsibility, easily modify and add content, assign effective dates and create workflows to make sure proper approval is gained before publication. |
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