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Day 30 of writing an open source office suite in Java. Today, the release day! Annoucement available here, here and here. Full HD video here And the presentation slides: Joeffice, Day 30: The Release!!! from Anthony Goubard As bonus a short demo: Full HD video here Thanks for following my blog.

psykocrime writes "The crazy kids at Fogbeam Labs have a new blog post positing that there is a trend towards advanced projects in NLP, Information Retrieval, Big Data and the Semantic Web moving to the Apache Software Foundation. Considering that Apache UIMA is a key component of IBM Watson, is it wrong to believe that the organization behind Hadoop, OpenNLP, Jena, Stanbol, Mahout and Lucene will ultimately be the home of a real 'Star Trek Computer'? Quoting: 'When we talk about how the Star Trek computer had “access to all the data in the known Universe”, what we really mean is that it had access to something like the Semantic Web and the Linked Data cloud. Jena provides a programmatic environment for RDF, RDFS and OWL, SPARQL and includes a rule-based inference engine. ... In addition to supporting the natural language interface with the system, OpenNLP is a powerful library for extracting meaning (semantics) from unstructured data - specifically textual data in an unstructured (or semi structured) format. An example of unstructured data would be the blog post, an article in the New York Times, or a Wikipedia article. OpenNLP combined with Jena and other technologies, allows “The computer” to “read” the Web, extracting meaningful data and saving valid assertions for later use.'" Speaking of the Star Trek computer, I'm continually disappointed that neither Siri nor Google Now can talk to me in Majel Barrett's voice. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Hi! I am working through the Django tutorial, and I have reached the part where I want to customize my admin. Basically, I want 'Chris Spears App' to appear at the top of the page instead of 'Django administration'. I copied the base_site.html file from its home to C:\Users\Chris\Documents\djang o_dev\mysite\templates\admin.

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If you need help writing programs in Python 3, or want to update older Python 2 code, this book is just the ticket. Packed with practical recipes written and tested with Python 3.3, this unique cookbook is for experienced Python programmers who want to focus on modern tools and idioms.

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With the recent approval of the Java EE 7 platform JSR, Java EE 7 is on its way! There will be two webinars to introduce new features and give you an idea of what all the buzz is about. You can access this feature-packed event from your own desk, jump in when you can and step away when you need to do so.... [Read More]

Over the years, I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of developers. Overall, I have found them to be intelligent, witty, focused, incredibly funny… and also pretty isolated.

We've talked a lot about running multiple operating systems on the same computer—whether it's Windows and Linux, Windows and OS X, or something else—but what happens when it's time to get rid of one? Here's how to delete Windows or Linux from your system after you've dual-booted them.