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EyeWriter Initiative

The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people who are suffering from ALS with creative technologies. It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.

Spyware targeted: For first time, feds go after amateur-spyware software company that uses keylogging -- OrlandoSentinel.com

The federal agency said RemoteSpy customers were given detailed instructions on how to disguise the spyware as an innocuous file — such as a photo — that could be attached to an e-mail. When the file was opened, the keylogger software would be secretly installed.

Google Offers a Peek at the Chrome Operating System - NYTimes.com

Google began lifting the veil on its planned Chrome operating system on Thursday, but it said that computers powered by the software would not be available for a year.

Twitter-equipped bathroom scale tells the world how much you weigh | Technology | Los Angeles Times

Today the French company behind the scale, Withings, announced it has added Twitter capability to the scale, enabling the user to automatically tweet the weight/fat info to followers. In a news release, Withings declared the Twitter function would be a great help to users, "further motivating them by sharing their progress with followers."

The Go Programming Language

A systems programming language from Google that is expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected. Here's an example: package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Printf("Hello, 世界\n") }

Groovy and Grails Training Online Course by Sang Shin

The 1st session of "Groovy and Grails Programming (with Passion!)" online course will start from Jan. 10th, 2010.

Dean Wampler's Blog If You Want a Job Tomorrow, Cultivate Your Career Today

Useful tips about keeping your skills up in software development to stay employed .. and employable

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition or Java EE is a widely used platform for server programming in the Java programming language. The Java platform (Enterprise Edition) differs from the Java Standard Edition Platform (Java SE) in that it adds libraries which provide functionality to deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, multi-tier Java software, based largely on modular components running on an application server.

Java EE at a Glance

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) builds on the solid foundation of Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) and is the industry standard for implementing enterprise-class service-oriented architecture (SOA) and next-generation web applications. The SDKs contain Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server, previously named Sun Java System Application Server, and provide support for Java EE 5 specifications.

CodeIgniter - Open source PHP web application framework

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you're a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you're tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks...