"One part geek Olympics, one part community service project and one part race-against-the-clock—Sierra Bravo’s F1 Overnight Website Challenge will partner deserving Minnesota non-profits with teams of talented web developers for 24 hours of fun collaboration culminating in a fully operational website for each participating non-profit."

Two reasons why this is an awesome idea:
1. A short-timespan codeathon means you can donate your time without worrying about a gratis project blowing way out of scope. Anything that doesn't contribute to the goal needs to be efficiently nipped in the bud.
2. It supports the concept that a defined programming effort and a small team can actually accomplish a huge amount of work in a small amount of time.

Submitted by jason - 2007-10-04 15:06:47
Channels - blogcadre design programming
Tags - design web website programming codeathon challenge

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I've become addicted to Scott Aaronson's Schtetl-Optimized blog. He's taken the time to delve into a lot of the details about quantum computing that's often glossed over. The bonus is that he's able to put a lot of the physics into language that the non-quantum scientist can grasp.

Most of his posts are on the topic of what quantum computers _can't_ do. So it's interesting to read about the actual physical limits of computing and get a more realistic glimpse of what's in store for our info-driven future.

Submitted by jason - 2007-09-17 09:50:30
Channels - science futuretech programming
Tags - search computers quantum physics cryptography

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libmapi was recently released, which allows software developers to create and receive tasks, email, calendar entries, and contacts from an Exchange server.

This ought to be really useful for developers who want to interoperate with Exchange from other platforms and external mail systems. I'm sureI'm not the only one who wouldn't mind having a way to pull contact data between applications.

Submitted by jason - 2007-05-07 13:22:10
Channels - hackszine programming
Tags - programming linux library libmapi exchange mapi

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Joe Celko's (SQL For Smarties fame) old but great article on Nested Sets for storing Trees in Databases efficiently. Part 2 is located at: http://www.dbmsmag.com/9605d06.h...

Submitted by wstuart - 2007-04-30 08:47:41
Channels - programming
Tags - sql database db tree "nested set"

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