““37signals will lead the new global move­ment filled with imag­i­nary assump­tions on growth and mon­e­ti­za­tion poten­tial,” he con­tin­ued. “We’re excited to roll out a list of uncon­firmed rev­enue pos­si­bil­i­ties that involve crowd­sourc­ing, a robust set of wid­get cre­ation tools, 3G, aug­mented real­ity, social stuff, and an app store. Also, every­thing we make will include a compass.””

“In this paper, we will present a novel R-​​tree based algo­rithm, which adopts a depth– first search tech­nique. In the algo­rithm, we also devel­oped a “for­ward check­ing” tech– nique based on a “region dom­i­nance” rela­tion to reduce space com­plex­ity. We can show that the new algo­rithm is I/​O opti­mal and requires a log­a­rith­mic space in the worst case in the 2D space if there are not many over­lap­ping in R-​​tree. Fur­ther, our exper­i­ment demon­strated that the new algo­rithm requires a much smaller space than the exist­ing I/​O opti­mal tech­niques, and is pro­gres­sive in a way sen­si­tive to user’s requirements.”

“… Rtree is designed to be a spe­cial­ized, highly-​​reusable Python inter­face to an industrial-​​strength library. It doesn’t do for­mats. It doesn’t do pro­jec­tions. It’s not a CGI pro­gram. It’s a build­ing block that does one thing well and oth­er­wise stays out of your way. It indexes spa­tial data and pro­vides query mech­a­nisms, and that’s all it does.”

“I’m in the future camp. It seems to me that great­ness was never achieved by focus­ing on today. We cel­e­brate “vision­ar­ies” for good rea­son. I’m not one of them but I sense their pres­ence. If you’re one of those guys, keep it up. But remem­ber, you’ve got to get through today to get to tomorrow.”

“But Repub­li­cans are play­ing a dan­ger­ous game. They are ben­e­fit­ting from all this anger in the short term, but they have tapped into some­thing deep and ugly that they can’t con­trol. Call­ing the pres­i­dent a com­mu­nist or even Hitler is some­thing far beyond sim­ple inci­vil­ity or street theater—it is an accu­sa­tion that inten­tion­ally stirs the crazy pot. It is ulti­mately an incite­ment to violence.”

“I get the feel­ing that both of these unfor­tu­nate prac­tices came into play yes­ter­day, when NBC News made the deci­sion to edit out a shock­ing, inflam­ma­tory, and thor­oughly reveal­ing com­ment made by one of the pro­test­ers attend­ing the ⁹⁄₁₂ Teabag­ger rally in DC. NBC Nightly News on Sat­ur­day evening ran a news pack­age that con­tained a shot of a woman say­ing, “We are los­ing our coun­try, we think the Mus­lims are mov­ing in and tak­ing over.” But when the story was posted online, that com­ment was edited out and replaced with the infi­nitely less insane and racist, “I’m scared to death for my coun­try. I believe Obama is run­ning this coun­try into the ground.””

“In con­junc­tion with the API release, Col­lecta is launch­ing a developer’s chal­lenge with Chal​lenge​Post​.com.

Dubbed “The App­Mas­ter Chal­lenge,” the con­test will help drive the devel­op­ment of cre­ative and pow­er­ful appli­ca­tions. From now through Octo­ber 8^th, devel­op­ers can sub­mit their Collecta-​​powered plug-​​in, webapp or appli­ca­tion and the Col­lecta team will select the one that best exem­pli­fies what real-​​time results can do. The win­ner will be announced on Octo­ber 15^th, and will receive both a fea­tured spot as App­Mas­ter Cham­pion and a new 15″ Mac­Book Pro. There will be weekly prizes as well, and devel­op­ers are encour­aged to sub­mit early and often.”

“Today I believe some peo­ple are get­ting upset about the wrong thing at the wrong time. As Samwick noted, dur­ing a reces­sion the deficits will increase — from falling tax rev­enues, auto­matic sta­bi­liz­ers and stim­u­lus spend­ing. Maybe some peo­ple dis­agree with the stim­u­lus pack­age, but that isn’t going to change (except addi­tions like extend­ing unem­ploy­ment ben­e­fits again).

Elim­i­nat­ing the reces­sion­ary deficit requires the econ­omy to recover, and unfor­tu­nately the recov­ery will most likely be choppy and slug­gish, but even­tu­ally a recov­ery will hap­pen. Elim­i­nat­ing the struc­tural deficit will be much more dif­fi­cult and will require hard choices, but now is not the time.”

“Sec­tion Eight Design was selected as the win­ner for their part­ner­ship with Teton Val­ley Com­mu­nity School, a non-​​profit, inde­pen­dent school in Vic­tor, Idaho. The pro­posal, pic­tured above, focuses on scal­a­bil­ity and a con­nec­tion to the out­doors, tak­ing advan­tage of the school’s loca­tion at the base of the Teton Moun­tain Range. In addi­tion to class­rooms and meet­ing spaces that the school will build incre­men­tally as they raise funds, gar­dens, farm ani­mals, and local, drought-​​resistant flora will be inte­grated into the school’s fab­ric to pro­mote com­mu­nity, envi­ron­men­tal respon­si­bil­ity and a “sense of place.””

“Start­ing from the long-​​popular design ethos of look­ing to nature for the best solu­tions, the Mor­pho­gen­e­sis tool set works by propos­ing opti­mized 3D struc­tures to the CAD user, based on a defined exter­nal enve­lope and a set of loads and con­straints. By hack­ing away at the enve­lope until only the min­i­mum of needed mate­r­ial is left, the tool pro­duces some thor­oughly odd, organic shapes, often rem­i­nis­cent of bones or sponges. The shapes can be saved as STL or other 3D data and used as an under­lay for explor­ing alter­nate designs.”

“Rec­og­nize that there is a demand for cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. The agile com­mu­nity needs to put together a decent cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gram, some­thing that the Scrum Alliance has clearly failed at doing. My arti­cle Com­ing Soon: Agile Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­vides some thoughts as to what we need to do. The good news is that peo­ple such as Ron Jef­fries and Chet Hen­drick­son, and oth­ers, are putting together a devel­oper cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gram. The really good news is that these are the right peo­ple to do this. The really bad news is that they’re doing it under the aegis of the Scrum Alliance, so what­ever they accom­plish will unfor­tu­nately be tainted by the fall­out of the CSM debacle.”

“The ser­vice sup­ports mul­ti­ple GitHub repos and Tracker projects, so you can run a sin­gle ser­vice that inte­grates mul­ti­ple projects. The ser­vice will fig­ure out which com­mits go to which projects based on a con­fig file on the server that asso­ciates a GitHub repo URL (make sure to use the http ver­sion of the URL, not https), to a Tracker project ID. For example:”

“Syn­chro­nize user sto­ries in Piv­otal Tracker with Cucum­ber features.”

“The L3C is a low-​​profit lim­ited lia­bil­ity com­pany (LLC), that func­tions via a busi­ness modal­ity that is a hybrid legal struc­ture com­bin­ing the finan­cial advan­tages of the lim­ited lia­bil­ity com­pany, an LLC, with the social advan­tages of a non-​​profit entity. An L3C runs like a reg­u­lar busi­ness and is prof­itable. How­ever, unlike a for-​​profit busi­ness, the pri­mary focus of the L3C is not to make money, but to achieve socially ben­e­fi­cial aims, with profit mak­ing as a sec­ondary goal. The L3C thus occu­pies a niche between the for-​​profit and char­i­ta­ble sec­tors.
As of Sep­tem­ber, 2009, an L3C can only be formed in the states of Michigan[1] ‚Ver­mont, Wyoming, Utah, the Crow Indian Nation and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. On August 4, 2009, Gov. Pat Quinn signed Illi­nois’ L3C Bill SBO239 and the law will take effect on Jan­u­ary 1, 2010.”