DeeKnow’s Grotto

Building a Corporate Portal using MS SharePoint Portal Server - have saved a copy of this whitepaper published by microsoft in April and linked off the PortalsCommunity newsletter recently. Covers use of SharePoint on WindowsXP, not exactly what we're likely to use but should be interesting reading.

2:17:32 PM  

Covalent Extends Apache 2.0 to ASP.NET - This was announced during OSCON this year in a session parrellel to one I attended. Basically Covalent have released a mod_asp.net module for Apache which provides compatibility with Microsoft's ASP.NET framework. This was discussed at Slashdot just prior to OSCON and of course mention was made of the open-source .NET initiatives like Mono.

1:04:02 PM  

OSCON2002 : A Contrarian View of Open Source - I didn't attend this session, but the presenter (Bruce Sterling) has a transcription of the speech online and there's a thread at Slashdot that discusses it.

11:42:08 AM  

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python - this is a book published under the GNU Free Documentation License and is available in an online HTML version and a couple of other downloadable formats.

10:43:57 AM  

OSCON2002 : Keynote Lawrence Lessig - a great presentation, he spoke about the origins of copyright in the context of the time and the difference between then and now and the limitations that the modern interpretation/application of copyright impose on creativity. Have saved the flash presentation here which has the audio track from the keynote. (7MB/requires flash6)

This was his last speaking engagement until next year some time so he can focus on the Eldrid vs Ascroft case which is a challenge against the copyright law changes made recently by the US congress.

10:12:11 AM  

Danish Court Rules Deep Linking Illegal - Copenhagen's lower bailiff's court ruled Friday that Newsbooster.com was in direct competition with the newspapers and that the links it provided to specific news articles damaged the value of the newspapers' advertisements. sources: DigitalMass and SlashDot

9:02:41 AM