Is this what abstraction has truly come to?…

Incremental Operations » Java call stack - from HTTP upto JDBC as a picture

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I had to mention something rather funny. Jason Robbins, in the middle of a jam-packed session announcing Google’s new open source project hosting offering, accidently displayed an administration screen of the web app showing his password.
“I’ll have to change that.” Is all he said.

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David Sklar gave an excellent presentation about service dependency in the age of mashups. The irony of the presentation is that David’s connection to the projector kept crapping out every 15 seconds or so. A presentation on dependency when a dependency to the presentation kept failing. Wow. Sorry I had to spell that one out.
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Atom and the Atom Publishing Protocol was discussed in various forms and fashions. I’ll post later about Tim Bray’s session specifically on the Atom Publishing Protocol? One session, however, not directly on Atom itself, caught my attention.
Rasmus Lerdorf of PHP and Yahoo fame gave an insightful presentation PHP. It was detailed with everything from exectuion [...]

The thing that amazed me about the medical treatment wasn’t the quality of the doctors, nor the amazing advances in medicine, but that nobody could tell me how much the procedure would cost. It was exasperating.
Get Rich Slowly » Why Don’t Doctors Know How Much Their Services Cost?
One of my favorite blogs, “Get Rich Slowly”, [...]