Today's businesses have a growing need to reliably store and analyze increasing volumes of data. On April 30th LogiXML and Vertica jointly explored this trend and discussed how our companies are responding to it. We concluded with a brief demo which illustrated a more tangible example of the benefits of Vertica's innovative columnar database and LogiXML's Web-based BI solutions.

"A New Era in Business Intelligence"

Shiira is a web browser based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari. All source code used in this software is publicly available.

Shiira Project

RapidXml is an attempt to create the fastest XML parser possible, while retaining useability, portability and reasonable W3C compatibility. It is an in-situ parser written in modern C++, with parsing speed approaching that of strlen function executed on the same data.

RapidXML

Olinda is a prototype digital radio that has your social network built in, showing you the stations your friends are listening to. It’s customisable with modular hardware, and aims to provoke discussion on the future and design of radios for the home.

Olinda (Schulze & Webb)

The book is available to download under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 license: Download PDF.

– The book can be viewed in an experimental html format courtesy of Yale University Press and the futureofthebook.org people. Each paragraph can be annotated.

The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It

IT security and control firm Sophos has published its latest Security Threat Report, which looks at worldwide cybercrime during the first quarter of 2008. The findings show a dramatic increase in web-based threats compared to 2007 – the first three months of 2008 showed Sophos finding and blocking a new infected webpage every five seconds, compared with one every 14 seconds last year.

One new infected webpage found every five seconds, reveals latest Sophos Security Threat Report

A presentation from An Event Apart, held in New Orleans in April 2008.

Findability Bliss Through Web Standards

Here's a three-step process to create a Time Machine backup on a network-attached storage (NAS) unit.

Set up Time Machine on a NAS in three easy steps

Until recently, performance improvement was not difficult. Processors just kept getting faster. Waiting a year for the customer's hardware to be upgraded was a valid optimization strategy. Nowadays, however, individual processors don't get much faster; systems just get more of them.

Much comment has been made on coding paradigms to target multiple-processor cores, but the data-parallel paradigm is a newer approach that may just turn out to be easier to code to, and easier for processor manufacturers to implement.

Data-Parallel Computing

As the Web swells with more and more data, the predominant way of sifting through all of that data—keyword search—will one day break down in its ability to deliver the exact information we want at our fingertips. In fact, some argue that keyword search is already delivering diminishing returns.

Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point?