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Oracle has pledged to support the linux environment on the client side by making software to access Oracle databases through Mozilla. This could mean the begining of some pretty cool web applications that run within the Mozilla framework. Right now, I’m learning XUL in preparation to build some rich web applications.

MozTips – A Pathfinder’s Guide to Mozilla and the Open Source Universe

I’m still thinking that the Notification Framework would be a good thing to implement, but I really don’t know how I should go about it. I want it to be able to scale, but I’m afraid that if I don’t plan everything beforehand, it won’t. There may not be enough time. Maybe I’ll do something simpler.

I’ve created a University of Michigan map using gmaptrack. This type of online software is almost exactly what I wanted to create. Looks like someone has already done it. Dang. And you know what, it pretty much rocks already. Anyone suggest any improvements?

Is it just me, or does this application act a little too much like Google Maps, perhaps to the point of using the same open source software called ka-Map and MapServer?

From The Michigan Daily:

“Search engine giant Google is considering Ann Arbor as a possible place to build a new 200,000 square foot technology center.”

Google may build in A2

Robots are soon to come in swarms. It is ironic that the name of the company is iRobot, almost the same name as a movie not long ago depicting thousands of robots rebeling against humans.

Can you see where I’m going with this, or no?

XMLHttpRequest and AJAX for PHP programmers

Linux…. Unix… what’s the difference? Well, until now one of the percieved differences was that Linux was free and open source, and versions of Unix were not. A major version of Unix, Solaris 10, was open sourced just yesterday, and as of earlier this year has been free and, has been available for x86 platforms. What does this mean? Well… all you Linux lovers have almost no excuse not to try it out. And, people looking for a very stable server have a good free solution. With this kind of competition, how will Microsoft stay in the server and possibly desktop market? Well… one way might be to hire the founder of Gentoo Linux.

This link is here for two reasons. One, because I like Software Engineering. Two, because I like Wikipedia. Simple as that.

Software engineering – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia