So who owns the radio wave airspace above your land?
This article talks about a baseball park that’s mad about an office complex that has a WiFi Access point. That’s not what’s interesting. The Office building’s WiFi connection can be used from within the baseball park, and lots of people are doing it.
So the question of the week is, does the baseball park [...]
WiFi
So I finally got WiFi. I had recently purchased a Compaq 2100 series laptop, which doesn’t come with any 802.11 networking. It of course did come with two PCMCIA slots, but I’ve never been fond of the card hanging out of the computer.
At some point I noticed that there were two expansion slots [...]
A Mac and Bluetooth.
I wish I had these. There’s a very interesting application called Salling Clicker that Paolo wrote about - when his Sony Ericsson phone rings, he can see who is calling him on his Mac’s monitor. he can control many applications via the phone. He can have his music pause when he leaves [...]
Goodbye, typed language.
Tim Bray has written an article explaining his thought that strongly typed languages are going the way of the dodo bird, in favor of dynamic languages such as Perl, and Python. This isn’t a bad thing — as he explains good testing is much better for fixing programming that strongly typed variables.
C, C++, Java, [...]
Mr. Orchard Goes to Microsoft
Looks like Leslie is going to learn some .NET too. I personally think that it seems to be a much better structure to program in than Java — and will be even better once the applications run on more than just Windows (which is the whole point of the CLI). Good to see others [...]