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Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

O'Reilly in Cambridge, MA, is getting behind Ignite Boston, which is
a techie event where people give five-minute pitches about some
innovative or up-and-coming technology. This event includes a talk
about innovation myths by Scott Berkun.

Good stuff if you're in the area. Details:
http://www.oreillynet.com/ignite/blog

The Weekly Tab Sweep
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An Introduction to Haskell
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/21/an-introduction-to-haskell---part-1-why-haskell.html

Reducing User Interface Friction
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000866.html

In my day job we're starting a new project with text classification
requirements. The state-of-the-art is the Support Vector Machine
algorithm, and I found two very interesting libraries:

LIBSVM
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm

SVM Light
http://svmlight.joachims.org

I give the early nod to LIBSVM because of its language bindings,
including Python.

I'm increasingly drawn to explore various SVN alternatives; flavor o'
the week is git:

http://git.or.cz

I'm *not* generally interested in the GTD or personal productivity
stuff. I got through three degrees without being personally organized, so
I figure I'm doing good enough.

Then I founded and started managing a software company; holy crap, now
I'm *so* disorganized! :>

Since I prefer low-tech solutions, I started carrying a date book for
the first time in my life. That's pretty good.

But I need a bit more, so I'm using Org mode in Emacs these days, and
I really love it; I'm not doing the Full GTD Monty, as described here:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.html

But I like that it's extensible to that level of nuttiness, if I
have to become that nutty.

As always, thanks for reading! And happy Memorial Day!

Kendall Clark, kendall@xml.com
Managing Editor, XML.com

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