Month: January 2005

Intel recently registered new trademarks that may be an indication of new upcoming products. As a result people have starting speculating what the tradmark symbols mean.

One of the tradmark symbols is ‘VIIV’ – people are currently theorizing that this may be the logo for:

• a new 64 bit CPU (Roman numerals for 6 and 4, although technically it should be LXIV in that case).
• the symbol for a dual core Pentium comprised of 2 Pentium V chips

SearchBlox is a search engine based on Lucene, which is deployed as a Web App onto an existing App Server. The web app can be installed out of the box, configured via a web front-end and then accessed through its own search page.

They have a free (limited 1000 search item) version available for download on their website www.searchblox.com

Four years since he passed away in 2001, an asteroid has been named after Douglas Adams, the British author famous for his Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of books (in 5 parts).

The asteroid is named ‘Douglasadmans’. In 2001 just days after his death, another asteroid was named ‘Athur Dent’ after the main human character in the Hitchhiker books.

I’m always interested when someone claims to develop a working application with minimal amount of coding. This article on the O'Reilly OnLamp.com site shows how to build a webapp using Ruby with the Rails framework. When they say minimal lines of code they really mean it.

Take a look and see what you think. I haven’t used Ruby yet either, but this framework could be a good reason to start learning…

More info on Ruby here, and the home page for Ruby on Rails is here.