Application markets and stores are all the rage these days. Let's see, there's the apple store, the android market, Microsoft's app store, Nokia's OVI store, and probably a gazillion more. It's like if you don't have one, you don't really exist.

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I don't get all the fuss about Apple no longer shipping java with OSX. Windows never did. Linux does not. So what?

Actually, with Lion, they will make it extremely easy to install anyways. According to early reports about the developer preview...

Now this is what i call the future coming to us: Stuff previously only seen in movies coming to the real world. LG has demo'ed a transparent multi touch display. Can i have one? :)

As a part of my Ruby learning process, i decided to write something to retrieve the full list of brands that Coca Cola currently owns from their website. The list is split across multiple pages, but with some Ruby magic and a nice library called...