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Javascript Crash Course
AJAX Crash Course
AJAX History (coming soon)
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Mission

"Striving to be constitutionally incapable of capitulation"
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Linked Data activist, entrepreneur, designer, programmer, student, philosopher, interested learner, actor, singer, Apple-minded perfectionist

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Micah Herstand
(314) 827-5282
Micah [at] Herstand.com
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ReadWriteWeb
- Oracle Versus Google: The Database Kingpin Gets Desperate
  Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over alleged infringement of Java slipped from epic battle to soap opera this week: The relationships between the judge, jury, plaintiff and defendant have become a tangle of legal ambiguity and financial suffering — or is it avarice? The jury deferred to the judge on the extent of Oracle’s intellectual property protections. T […]
- When Words Fail, Text an Animated GIF
  Think emojis are fun? Now you can send messages that move. A new iPhone app called MyFaceWhen makes it fast and easy to record and send video in the form of animated GIFs attached to text messages. We've had multimedia messages (MMS) for years, and we're used to static images showing up alongside text messages. Most phones can handle audio and vid […]
Engadget
- Researchers tout efficiency breakthrough with new 'inexact' chip
  Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new "inexact" chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency. Their latest work, which won a best paper award at a recent ACM conference, builds on years of research in […]
- Raspberry Pi team shows off pics of (and taken with) prototype camera add-on
  While the main thing that would make Raspberry Pi's diminutive $25 / $35 Linux setups better would be if we could get our hands on them faster, the team behind it is already working on improvements like this prototype camera seen above. The add-on is slated to ship later this year and plugs into the CSI pins left exposed right in the middle of each unit […]
Wired
- A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 19
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills. […]
- Microsoft to Launch Amazon EC2 Rival. Again
  The rumor du jour is that Microsoft is just two weeks away from launching a competitor to Amazon's massively popular EC2 service. This seems like big news, until you consider that Microsoft already offers a competitor to Amazon EC2. […]
Macrumors
- ElcomSoft's Phone Forensics Software Offers Near Real-Time Access to iCloud Backups
  Russian forensics firm ElcomSoft earlier this week announced that it has discovered a way to easily access iCloud backups of iOS devices, incorporating the functionality into its Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker software. While the Apple ID and password must be known in order to access the iCloud data, once that information has been obtained the software mak […]
- Apple in Talks to Open R&D Facility in Russia's Skolkovo Innovation Centre?
  Russian newspaper Izvestia reports [Google translation] that the organizers behind the Skolkovo technology park near Moscow are currently in talks with a number of high-profile companies including Apple, Google, and Facebook about locating research and development facilities in the area. Skolkovo has already landed agreements with Microsoft, IBM, General Ele […]

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