Malcolm Low

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Google has made available high resolution photographs of the Dead Sea Scroll online along with the English translation of the original Hebrew text. ... (more)
Google has launched a completely rebuilt, streamlined authoring and editing experience with seven new ways to display blogs in Blogger called Dynamic Views. Built with the latest in web technology (AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3), Dynamic Views is a unique browsing experience that will in... (more)
Microsoft has made a preview of Windows 8 available to anyone who takes the time to download it. Windows 8 Developer Preview, as Microsoft called the pre-beta build, was posted to a company website shortly after 8 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday. The downloads, which range from 2.8GB to... (more)
Hewlett-Packard has launched a beta IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) offering called HP Cloud Services. The initial offerings, called HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage, will provide compute and storage resources from HP's own data centers. HP will use the OpenStack s... (more)
"Actors avoid the dangers of the shared-memory model because they touch only the data that's sent to them in messages. If they need some external data, they request it from other actors (by sending the request in the form of a message). In addition, the data actors receive is im... (more)
Google Instant Pages is now on by default in the latest stable version of Chrome. This means that sometimes when you click a Google search result in Chrome, the page will appear to load much faster than before. The video above shows a side by side comparison of Chrome with and wi... (more)
Smartsheet is used by thousands of companies for online project management, task management, and many other types of work. ... (more)
I have left NTU in June 2011 and is now with D-SIMLAB Technologies . ... (more)
The puzzle embedded in the video has been solved. See: Jamendo geeks solve the hidden Chrome OS equation (and win a Cr-48 netbook); Google Chrome Blog: X = G / (C*H*R*O*M - 3); ... (more)
The puzzle embedded in the video has been solved. See: Jamendo geeks solve the hidden Chrome OS equation (and win a Cr-48 netbook); Google Chrome Blog: X = G / (C*H*R*O*M - 3); ... (more)
According to this article from newsweek, brainstorming has been proven not to work since 1958, when Yale researchers found that the technique actually reduced a team’s creative output: the same number of people generate more and better ideas separately than together. ... (more)
According to this article from newsweek, brainstorming has been proven not to work since 1958, when Yale researchers found that the technique actually reduced a team’s creative output: the same number of people generate more and better ideas separately than together. ... (more)
Douglas Crockford talks on the history of JavaScript unveiling some of the struggles the Ecma Technical Committee has had in advancing the language over the years, concluding with lessons learned: if one has a great idea he should not tell it to a standardization body but rather ... (more)
Douglas Crockford talks on the history of JavaScript unveiling some of the struggles the Ecma Technical Committee has had in advancing the language over the years, concluding with lessons learned: if one has a great idea he should not tell it to a standardization body but rather ... (more)
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What Should We Teach New Software Developers? Why? Bjarne Stroustrup in CACM viewpoint, "Fundamental changes to computer science education are required to better address the needs of industry. Computer science must be at the center of software systems development. If it is not, w... (more)
What Should We Teach New Software Developers? Why? Bjarne Stroustrup in CACM viewpoint, "Fundamental changes to computer science education are required to better address the needs of industry. Computer science must be at the center of software systems development. If it is not, w... (more)
The Software Engineering Method And Theory (SEMAT) Community Call for Action Statement: Software engineering is gravely hampered today by immature practices. Specific problems include: The prevalence of fads more typical of fashion industry than of an engineering discipline. The ... (more)
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