With this patent Apple managed to stop import of HTC phones in the US: “A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data. The system provides an analyzer server, an application program interface, a user interface and an action processor. The analyzer server receives from an [...]
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Open source vs. commercial
October 16th, 2011
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I’m starting this blog-post with a quote from the ‘about’ text from the website Saxonica. Saxonica is the company created by Michael Kay, developer of the Saxon product, to bring the technology to the commercial market. The company was created to ensure continued investment in moving the Saxon technology forwards, and remove the risk associated [...]
Patent and patent troll registry
May 18th, 2011
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It is about time we start fighting the patent trolls. One way to do this is to greate a registry or a wiki to help out developers and companies to avoid breaching the patent and/or getting into patent disputes. This is of great importance when your application has to deal with breaching a patent that [...]
Methods and Apparatus for Information Storage and Retrieval Using a Dallas 279664v1 Hashing Technique with External Chaining and On-the-Fly Removal of Expired Data
April 27th, 2011
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Yes, the title is long – and it is also the name of the United States Patent No. 5,893,120. This is the patent that Bedrock Computer Technologies LLC claims that a total of 10 companies is infringing. You can read the filing here. So what does this patent say? “A method and apparatus for performing [...]
PHP going down?
March 28th, 2011
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Visited the php.net website for other reasons than just to fresh up on a function that I was not sure how to use (PHP has the best documentation out there – period. Yes. It. Is. Even. Better. Than. The. C#. Or. VB. Documentation. At. Microsoft. Period!) How ever, looking at the statistics that you can [...]
Dugnad: Norske data
March 24th, 2011
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Har laget et XML-ark som inneholder oversikt over kommuner, fylker og byer i Norge. Denne mangler imidlertid noen byer, og annen informasjon som kommune-nummer, fylkesnummer osv. Dersom noen har lyst til å bidra med å komplementere denne, så blir jeg overlykkelig. Tagger kan selvfølgelig endres. Har ikkes satt opp noe SVN eller noe, men hvis [...]
I love podcasts!
February 4th, 2011
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Can’t help it, but podcasts are just awesome. The best ones give me laughs, information and in some cases the latest. The ones I am listening to are: Boagworld ‘The podcast for those who design, develop and running websites on a daily basis…’ Paul Boag and Marcus Lillington is just very nice to listen to [...]
Working with Linux
February 3rd, 2011
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Sometimes I do wonder why I am not running (or buying) a computer with the standard OS – in my case that would be Windows 7. I bought this computer without any OS and installed Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS), and I am still running this version although it does give me some headaches… I have been [...]
Version Control System
January 16th, 2011
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Currently I am using Subversion but after some synchronizing “problems” and a override-commit took ages to complete, I started looking around for other Version Control Systems. There are some, and below are some of those that I’ll be looking into before deciding to either stick with Subversion (SVN) or move on to something else: Concurrent [...]
2011
January 9th, 2011
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I’ve been having so much to do lately that this blog has slowed down. I hope that I can blog a bit in 2011 to, but most importantly is to keep having enough to do. At the moment I am having a great time with Smarty which is a template language for PHP. It’s just [...]
