BoleyBlogs! – Tips for 1Ls – Great resources for those starting their legal education. Highlights the many resources of CALI.
Blogged with Flock
Wex Surfaces!
links for 2006-09-07
Self Help LEgal Movement Gets a Blog
SHLEP’s goal is to bring the benefits of a daily weblog to the Self-Help Law movement. Developments and news about self-help will be presented (often thanks to the efforts of the good folk at SelHelpSupport.org). In addition to creating or organizing background materials for those who want to find self-help resources, your editor will attempt to keep readers informed of self-help resources available to the public and to professional providers of those services, of studies and reports on self-help law and related issues, of relevant symposia and meetings, and of the people and groups aiding (or obstructing) the movement.
shlep: the Self-Help Law ExPress » About shlep
Found via BoleyBlogs! SHLEP will blog the coming legal literacy revolution.
technorati tags:shlep, selfhelpsupport.org
Blogged with Flock
Chief Windows Developer Leaves MSFT, Heads to Amazon
19-year Microsoft veteran Brian Valentine, who has led Windows development since 1998, is leaving the Redmond company to join Amazon.com. The news comes just one month after Microsoft said Valentine would transition to a new, unspecified role.Valentine began working at Microsoft in 1987 as an Engineering Manager in the LAN Manager Group. He was largely responsible for cleaning up the Windows 2000 development mess and getting the operating system out the door.
BetaNews | Windows Head Departs for Amazon
That is a lot of developer memory to let go out the door. Does amke you wonder abotu the future for Vista.
technorati tags:microsoft, amazon
Blogged with Flock
MSFT Releases IronPython, Python for .NET
Microsoft has announced the release of IronPython 1.0, its implementation of the Python dynamic programming language on the .Net platform.The Redmond, Wash., software giant released IronPython 1.0 on the company’s CodePlex community source Web site on Sept. 5. Company officials said IronPython 1.0 represents a significant milestone for Microsoft’s CLR (Common Language Runtime) by demonstrating performance and capability of a dynamic language on the .Net Framework.
Microsoft Ships IronPython 1.0
technorati tags:python, .net, microsoft
Blogged with Flock
links for 2006-09-06
Google Reminds Us About Open Source OCR Engine
This particular OCR engine, called Tesseract, was in fact not originally developed at Google! It was developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories between 1985 and 1995. In 1995 it was one of the top 3 performers at the OCR accuracy contest organized by University of Nevada in Las Vegas. However, shortly thereafter, HP decided to get out of the OCR business and Tesseract has been collecting dust in an HP warehouse ever since. Fortunately some of our esteemed HP colleagues realized a year or two ago that rather than sit on this engine, it would be better for the world if they brought it back to life by open sourcing it, with the help of the Information Science Research Institute at UNLV. UNLV was happy to oblige, but they in turn asked for our help in fixing a few bugs that had crept in since 1995 (ever heard of bit rot?)… We tracked down the most obvious ones and decided a couple of months ago that Tesseract OCR was stable enough to be re-released as open source.
Google Code – Updates: Announcing Tesseract OCR
Blogged with Flock
HyperScope Arrives, Serves Up OPML
The HyperScope is a high-performance thought processor that enables you to navigate, view, and link to documents in sophisticated ways. It’s the brainchild of Doug Engelbart, the inventor of hypertext and the mouse, and is the first step towards his larger vision for an Open Hyperdocument System.
This is great stuff. Basically it extends OPML in a number of useful ways and provides a mechanism for viewing OPML files in a browser. This will be useful as I work on eLangdell.
technorati tags:elangdell, hyperscope
Blogged with Flock
Blogs Added to LexisNexis Index
LexisNexis has added blog content to its Newstex database. They’ve picked an interesting and eclectic mix of blogs covering business, computers & technology, financial services, government & politics, marketing, medical & health, and media. Check out the full list of blogs on Newstex (pdf).
BoleyBlogs! » LexisNexis Adds Blog Content- Paul L. Boley Law Library
Wow. LN licenses a blogging indexing service from a closed-source blogging aggregator. Nice. According to the press releases (here and here) Newstex “licenses influential blog content directly from independent bloggers and then takes in each carefully selected blog feed in text format and uses its proprietary NewsRouter technology to scan it in real-time”. In turn Newstex sells this tagged info to corporate rubes to slow to have figured out that they can get pretty much the same thing for free from Google or have their IT department whip something together over lattes at Starbucks. Sometimes I do believe I’m in the wrong ned of the business:)
technorati tags:lexisnexis, newstex, blogs
Blogged with Flock