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Open Source in the Enterprise

Using open source in the enterprise — the question is no longer "if," but "how?" The low cost, easy access, and expansive license terms of open source are certainly attractive — especially since IT budgets have decreased 3-5% every year, while software costs have increased, and IT staffs have been tasked to create web services and pursue Web 2.0 initiatives. Get the report.

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• How to Share code snippets to reference in your blogs using Gist
• How to lose friends and alienate people (OSCON presentation)
• Open Source Cloud Computing with Eucalyptus and Ubuntu
• Use Comet with Flex for Enterprise RIAs
• Business Benefits of Cloud Computing and the Dynamic Data Center
• How to Locate a Drupal Module
• O'Reilly Books on User Group Management
• Open source tools for mid-sized websites?
• Is there a base version of Drupal that is minimal and secure, yet has an easy editing function?
• Handling HL7 v3 using Python or PHP

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Four short links: 3 Sep 2010

Arranging Things: The Rhetoric of Object Placement (Amazon) -- [...] the underlying principles that govern how Western designers arrange things in three-dimensional compositions. Inspired by Greek and Roman notions of rhetoric [...] Koren elucidates the elements of arranging rhetoric that all designers instinctively use in everything from floral compositions to interior decorating. (via Elaine Wherry) 2010 Mario AI Championship...

Four short links: 1 September 2010

R Library for Chernoff Faces -- faces represent the rows of a data matrix by faces. plot.faces plots faces into a scatterplot. Interesting emotional way to visualize data, which was used to good effect (though not with this library) by BERG in Schooloscope. (via the tutorial at Flowing Data) Piwik -- GPLed web analytics package. Pomegranate -- a data...

Four short links: 25 August 2010

Why Narrative and Structure are Important (Ed Yong) -- Ed looks at how Atul Gawande's piece on death and dying, which is 12,000 words long, is an easy and fascinating read despite the length. Understanding Science (Berkeley) -- simple teaching materials to help students understand the process of science. (via BoingBoing comments) Sax: Symbolic Aggregate approXimation -- SAX is...

Four short links: 24 August 2010

The Dirty Little Secret About Google Android (ZD Net) -- By some reports, the Open Handset Alliance is in now shambles. Members such as HTC have gone off and added lots of their own software and customizations to their Android devices without contributing any code back to the Alliance. Motorola and Samsung have begun taking the same approach. The...

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Open Source Experts

Matthew Russell is a computer scientist from middle Tennessee; and serves Digital Reasoning Systems as the Director of Advanced Technology. Hacking and writing are two activities essential to his renaissance man regimen.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. In addition to Foo Camps ("Friends of O'Reilly" Camps, which gave rise to the "un-conference" movement), O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the Web 2.0…

Stephen Addison Schneiter is currently the Certification Specialist with Certification Partners, LLC, and formerly was a tenured faculty member at the Tennessee Technology Center.

Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux, and BSD systems. A prolific author, she pens the popular FreeBSD Basics column for O'Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks…

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