Searching for Raw Data Online

It is difficult to find raw data. For some reason the web evolved to put a tremendous buffer between raw data and the population. There is no technical reason for the internet to have developed this way. For instance, there is big difference between putting something in the public domain and making actually accessible. Instead [...]

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Security on DabbleDB

Interestingly, DabbleDB not only has a password restriction on who can see the data (if you decide to enable this), but it also has the ability to restrict the data to specific IP address.

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Scientific Databases

What is interesting is how difficult it is to find scientific datasets online. There is a tremendous amount of scientific research that is publicly supported every year. Publicly supported research falls into he public domain, and this raw data should be available for everyone. However, this does not seem to be the case. The raw [...]

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Interesting DabbleDB Features

We have recently begun using Dabble DB. Some of the traits of DabbleDB are different from relational systems. This includes the following.

Categories are like tables
Unlike with traditional database tables, a single entry can belong to multiple categories at once.

A view is based upon a table or a form, chart or calendar
Columns can be [...]

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Forwarding from Hotmail

We had to post this because it is so amazing.
As is well known at this point, Hotmail is a weak email program that has problems on different browsers. Naturally, many people with Hotmail would like to forward their accounts to Gmail. However, we found something interesting when we tried to forward mail from an existing [...]

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iDrive my Computer in the Sky

Increasingly applications like WordPress, GoogleDocs, RemembertheMilk and other applications mostly in rich text, allow you to get a lot of work done from any computer without installing your applications on them. Increasingly this is allowing for a “computer in the sky.” Some tech leader declared years ago that “the network is the computer” is appearing [...]

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Interesting Comment on Google Services vs MobileMe

This is from Engadget.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/t-mobile-g1-review-part-2-software-and-wrap-up/
Accurate or not, the phrase “it just works” has been closely tied to the Apple camp for eons — and obviously, the iPhone tries to ooze that mantra from its every pore. Without ever having made a phone, though, Google already had a leg up in delivering on this promise to handsets [...]

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