Move over, Axis of Evil! Our 43rd president, George W. Bush (and you gotta know that his dad hangs on to that ‘H.’ with two white-knuckled hands) is now in search of “the surest way to defeat the enemies of hatred.” Of course, we’re the best of friends with hatred here at Robot Librarian, so [...]
Because you can never have too many open encyclopedia-type-thingies, Google has launched Google Doctype, a “Google-sponsored open encyclopedia and reference library for developers of web applications. By web developers, for web developers.” It’s set up to use an open license (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License) and, unlike other similar resources, is explicitly set up to [...]
Via Ajaxian, just saw an announcement for Persevere, a network-centric, JSON-based generic storage engine. It features:
A REST-based interface over regular old HTTP JSON as the native data going in and out, including circular references and such Search interface based around JSONPath RPC interface based on JSON-RPC Seemingly buzzword compliant across the board
I’ve been thinking about these sorts of servers [...]
[From a series I’m calling, “Things About The Library I Think Are Stoooopid”, part one of about a zillion.]
I’m going to wallow in a little bit of hyperbole here, but only a little.
The problem
Suppose, just for a moment, that you’re a computer programmer working anytime in the last twenty years, and someone wants you to [...]
The University of Pennsylvania Library has a set of video commercials touting their products — some of which are musicals! Worth a look-see.