Proven combinations of medicines and the introduction of new anti-arthritis drugs have significantly improved the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to...

Microphones and speakers use piezoelectric materials that move in response to voltage, or create voltage from movement. But common piezoelectric materials are expensive,...

Our friends Anupama and Nitin have posted on the Google blog about the Hindi transliteration feature that they added to Blogger: Enabling the transliteration option...

Marketing is a really a game of trying anything you can to create some form of differentiation for your brand. The beauty of it being that this innovation can from...

Filed under: misc hacks, newsOver 2500 unique patterns and up to 25 hours of winky blinky fun, that's what you get with Nodeblinky. This contraption was designed by the...

Super cool video conversation site Seesmic just rolled out its most requested feature today, Creative Commons licensing of course! Seesmic added all 6 primary licenses as...

I just uploaded to PLaneT a very simple matrix library. The library provides a matrix datastructure, iterators over matrices and vectors, algebraic operations on...

Occasionally ColdFusion decides email messages are undeliverable and moves messages from the spool directory into the undelivr folder. This can be that the sending mail...

I spoke with Joe Pancrazio yesterday who brought me up to speed on the the NINDS Cooperative Program in Translational Research. The program is intended to catalyze the...

This time, the question is not because it was poorly phrased.  It is because it is regarding an area I want to bring to the attention of a larger audience. The...

Every couple of months, I try to catch up on email research work from academia. This weekend, I found this paper [1] by Drezde et al. from UPenn.The problem they want to...

The W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has posted the candidate recommendation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. "Web Content Accessibility...

I believe the recent surge in popularity of CSS frameworks comes from a lack of basic understanding of the CSS box model and how it’s implemented across browsers. ...

The latest Effective Concurrency column, "Use Lock Hierarchies to Avoid Deadlock", just went live on DDJ's site, and will also appear in the print magazine....

I haven't been blogging much lately, but it's time to spill. Miscellaneous subjects follow. Via Michael Bolton, a paper (pdf) "Pairwise Testing: A Best Practice That...

It is always the way, ideas are 10 a penny. If you don’t actually get round to implementing it someone else eventually will. Quite often though it’s the case...

Consumer Reports, one of the most trusted sources when it comes to news and product ratings and buying guides now provides RSS feeds. Partnering with SimpleFeed, the...

We just wrapped up the Global Voices Summit in Budapest. I unfortunately missed the first public half of the Summit, but participated in the meeting afterwords for the...

In my last post I implemented the greedy algorithm for coin changer in Scala. While greedy algorithms provide optimal solutions for some combinations of coin...

In helping folks out in the forums, I find that a lot of people don't have a full grasp of how our sync model works and why content is automatically added (or deleted)...