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Peter Kahrel has been programming InDesign with JavaScript since 2003, and now also works as a script developer. See www.kahrel.plus.com

Noah Gift is the co-author of Python For Unix and Linux by O'Reilly. He is an author, speaker, consultant, and community leader, writing for publications such as IBM Developerworks, Red Hat Magazine, O'Reilly, and MacTech, and Manning.

Micah Dubinko served as an editor and author of the XForms 1.0 W3C specification. Micah is the author of XForms Essentials, and is available for consulting.

Dori Smith is coauthor of Mac OS X Unwired, JavaScript for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide, 4th Edition, author of Java 2 for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide, and a contributor to numerous online and print computer industry magazines.

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Four short links: 16 Feb 2009

A lot of Python and databases today, with some hardware and Twitter pranking/security worries to taste: Free Telephony Project, Open Telephony Hardware -- professionally-designed mass-manufactured hardware for telephony projects. E.g., IP04 runs Asterisk and has four phone jacks and removable Flash storage. Software, schematics, and PCB files released under GPL v2 or later. Don't Click Prank Explained -- inside the...

Four short links: 26 Jan 2009

Pledges, phone, fake brains, and real brains. All here on your Monday dose of four short links: Ada Lovelace Day - Suw Charman has kicked off a day of blogging about women in technology in honour of one of the greatest, Ada Lovelace. Of course, you should also feel free to blog about women in technology on days that aren't...

Four short links: 23 Jan 2009

Potty mouth, piracy, pointers to the future of the web, and Presidential technology woes, all in today's link roundup. F*ck the Cloud - Jason Scott's brilliant (and profanity-strewn) rant about cloud computing and the things people throw away without thinking about. Jason, an Internet historian, has a unique perspective and I think what he says makes a lot of sense....

Four short links: 21 Jan 2009

In today's edition: the spread of fake news, keeping track of your real power use, a Javascript library and a less-than-impressed take on mobile location apps. Echo Chamber - the British tabloid The Sun posted a story that turned out to be fabricated. This site tracked that story's spread and uncritical acceptance by other news outlets and web sites. Real...

Four short links: 13 Jan 2009

Apologies for the delay. Just remember Douglas Adams's great line: "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." Misconceptions and Objections to Gaza Mapping - Mikel Maron deals to objections about the OpenStreetMap call for help to build an accurate free streetmap of Gaza. This is fantastic work from OSM. Twenty Most Practical and Creative Uses of jQuery - I am...

PhoneGap: my new favorite open-source project

The real problem with mobile development is that you need to learn a new language. Every platform currently has their own unique language for writing applications, and some of them are downright obtuse (I'm talking to you, Objective-C for iPhone.) With the number of mobile devices and mobile internet connections exponentially rising, it was only a number of time before someone made it easier. Enter PhoneGap.

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