Monthly Archives: October 2011

Raw Data Now

Tim Berners-Lee invented in 1989 the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: Unlock our data and reframe the … Continue reading

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Friendship brought IBM to Rochester

In 1956 IBM decided to come to Rochester MN. IBM looked at nearly 80 mid-size cities in a dozen Midwest states for the plant site, and Rochester and Madison, Wis., were the two finalists. The day of the announcement, IBM … Continue reading

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jarfinder.com

Jarfinder provides a huge searchable database of classes and jars from a wide variety of java projects. This makes it easy to resolve ClassNotFoundExceptions or NoClassDefFoundErrors.

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FRC – FIRST Robotics Competition

FIRST – For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology – is project founded by Dean Kamen, inventor and entrepreneur. It’s mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, … Continue reading

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Rewrite URL in Java

Do you line nice URLs? Let’s say example.com/hello/ instead of example.com/hello.jsp ? The first one is without doubts better, does not reveal underneaths technology, and you are free to change it to another technology in the future without changing URLs. Well, there is URLRewriteFilter … Continue reading

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fold.it

Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. Foldit allows to find protein structure. For protein structure prediction, the eventual goal is to have human folders work on proteins that do not have a … Continue reading

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