Friday, December 03, 2004

An Unknown Giant Flexes Its Muscles. Although virtually unknown in the U.S., Lenovo - in talks to buy I.B.M.'s personal computer business - is China's largest PC maker and the world's fastest growing one. By By DAVID BARBOZA. [NYT > Technology] 11:47:30 PM      Google It!.

Toyota Demos 'Partner Robots' [Slashdot:] 7:55:07 PM      Google It!.

Batch Identifier Infrastructure. An open source tool for generating unique persistent digital object names and other identifiers has been released. Called "noid" (nice opaque identifier), it can be used as an identifier strategy no matter which naming scheme you choose (for example, ARK, DOI, Handle, LSID, PURL, or URN). Technical documentation is available, as well as a software release and a paper describing the motivation for persistent identifiers. By John A. Kunze, November 30, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 3:00:45 PM      Google It!.

ADL Releases Updates to SCORM Documentation and Software. A mixture of new requirements, examples, implementations and XSLT transformations that will keep developers happy all weekend. By Various Authors, Advanced Distributed Learning, December 2, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 2:57:12 PM      Google It!.

Zpydoc 2.0.1 Released. Zpydoc now has Plone skins [Plone RSS] 2:53:18 PM      Google It!.

Jython Webapp Tutorial - Part 1 - Writing Servlets in Jython. Here is a tutorial on setting up and building Jython webapps. Quick Contents: Installing Jython Installing Apache Tomcat Configuring Tomcat to run Jython Servlets Running Jython Servlets from the command line Accessing the Jython library Looks good and there is more coming. Here is the overal direction the effort is taking: Part 1 - Writing Servlets with Jython Part 2 - Process XML with the Xerces and Xalan libraries from Jython Part 3 - JMS Messaging from Jython with ActiveMQ Part 4 - From web-front end to process-to-process integration with Jython Part 5 - Summarizing the benefits of Jython and dynamic typing in general for Webapp development. I'm looking forward to the rest! [All things Jythonic] 2:51:22 PM      Google It!.

A WSGI server for jython 2.1. Modjy is an implementation of a WSGI compliant gateway/server for jython, built on J2EE servlets.   Python Web Server Gateway Interface, as specified in http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0333.html">Python Enhancement Proposal 333, is a proposal for a "simple and universal interface between web servers and [python] web applications or frameworks". [All things Jythonic] 2:50:59 PM      Google It!.

VOIP Meets Cell Phones [Slashdot:] this is the disruptive future -- BL 2:47:53 PM      Google It!.

Search Engines for Handwritten Documents [Slashdot:] 2:45:56 PM      Google It!.

Encouraging Interaction in Online Classes - Brent Muirhead, Instructional Technology. Promoting and maintaining interactivity within online classes continues to be a vital concern among distance educators. The current discussion will explore instructional strategies to foster online interaction. Research literature continues to affirm [Online Learning Update] 9:38:41 AM      Google It!.

Army Wages War on Modern Menaces. New ways of protecting U.S. troops from RPGs, biological weapons and more take center stage at a military science conference. There's even a morphine substitute that emerged from the rave scene. Noah Shachtman reports from Orlando, Florida. [Wired News] 9:35:03 AM      Google It!.

66.3 Million Domain Names Registered [Slashdot:] 9:13:28 AM      Google It!.

Location-Based Encryption [Slashdot:] GPS based 9:11:54 AM      Google It!.