Alexander Williams

“CoveritLive's web based software takes your next live blog to a new level. Your commentary publishes in real time like an instant message. Our ‘one-click’ publishing lets you drop polls, videos, pictures, ads and audio clips as soon as they more...

Scribus is an open source DTP application for Linux and other flavors of Unix and Unix-like systems, including Mac OS X and Windows.

Unfeasible: it means impossible. Since no engineer is going to admit something is impossible, they use this word instead. When an engineer says something is "non-trivial," it's the equivalent of an airline pilot calmly telling you that you might encounter more...

“It's a word processor which breaks your novel into chapters and scenes. It will not write your novel for you, suggest plot ideas or perform creative tasks of any kind. It does help you keep track of your work, leaving more...

Sun Microsystems Inc. will buy open source database company MySQL AB for about $1 billion, $800 million of that in cash.

Online flow chart / diagram editing tool. Handy!

Convert bitmap images to vector art.

“Draftastic is a new kind of collaborative editor. We make it easy for lots of people to edit documents at the same time, live, without needing special software or getting in each other’s way.”

I wanted to build a distributed filesystem, but it was too much work. Now it's basically been done... in userspace, cross-platform.

There have been few indie gaming success stories as big as Dwarf Fortress, an ASCII freeware simulation game in which the player helps to establish and govern a colony of dwarves, as they construct a Moria of their own. The more...

In an earlier post, I created a concurrent Erlang version of the "99 Bottles of Beer" beer song. In that post, I mentioned that I was reading a beta copy of Joe Armstrong's new book Programming Erlang - Software for more...

“Yesterday, I wrote about the war -- more like the Armageddon -- that's on the verge of eruption in the mobile space. Given how critical third party software developers are to the strategic success of any platform ecosystem, we can more...

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) Here are just more...

This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them, the academics and geeks who process them, the designers and artists who visualize them.