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Holiday Cookies 101
The holiday season isn't complete without fresh-baked cookies. Whether you are looking to create easy-to-decorate family favorites, or want to bake gifts for friends and neigbors, each of these holiday cookie recipes is guaranteed to work. And for perfect cookies, every time, we've assembled the winning ingredients, essential equipment, and tested techniques you'll need for success.
Troubleshooting Cookies
Problem: No softened butter on hand.
Solution: Take a butter-softening shortcut.
It can take about 30 minutes for a cold stick of butter to soften at room temperature. And in order for butter to cream properly, it needs to be soft. What if you don't want to wait? Here's how to soften butter n a hurry. Cut each stick of butter in half and place both halves on a small microwave-safe plate. Place the plate in the microwave and heat for 1 minute at 10 percent power. Press on the butter with your fingers to see if it is sufficiently softened; if not, heat for an additional 40 seconds at 10 percent power.
Problem: Dough is too soft.
Solution: Refrigerate the dough.
Cookies are rich with butter and when the air is hot or humid, butter will start to melt and soften your dough. Just place the dough in the refrigerator for 10 to 15 minutes until the dough has firmed up. If your kitchen is especially warm, remove just enough to portion onto one or two trays, while the rest stays chilled and firm in the refrigerator.
Problem: Some cookies are short on chips.
Solution: Stud the balls with extra chips.
Sometimes chocolate chips, nuts and other goodies don't get evenly mixed into the dough. The result? The last few balls of dough are skimpy on the 'good stuff." Rather than mixing extra chips into the dough (and possibly overworking the dough), simply reserve a spoonful of chips from the total amount called for and stud the last few formed balls with the chips.
Problem: Out of parchment paper.
Solution: Use aluminum foil.
You might be tempted to grease the baking sheet or spray it with vegetable spray—don't. The extra fat will cause the cookies to spread and bake unevenly. We prefer parchment for lining our baking sheets. Its slick surface prevents sticking, so we don't need to wrestle cookies from baking sheets. But what if you're out of parchment? There is a solution—aluminum foil. While the cookies stick a little, you'll be able to gently lift them off the foil.
Problem: Cookies are overbaked.
Solution: Immediately remove cookies to a wire rack.
It happens. You become distracted in the flurry of a busy kitchen and your cookies are in the oven a minute or two too long. Remove the sheet immediately from the oven and then, rather than allowing the cookies to set on the baking sheet (as our recipes instruct), immediately use a thin, wide spatula to gently remove the to a wire rack where they will cool off more quickly.
Shortening vs. Butter in Cookies
Some cookie recipes call for shortening and others call for butter. What's the difference?
To find out the different effects that shortening and butter can have on cookie dough, we prepared several different kinds of cookies with butter and with shortening. In general, tasters preferred the flavor of the cookies made with butter. For instance, shortening made especially bland chocolate chip cookies. This flavor deficit was less noticeable in snickerdoodles (classic New England cookies). These cookies are so heavily coated with cinnamon-sugar that the differences between the batches made with butter and shortening were harder (although not impossible) to detect.
In addition to flavor differences, cookies made with shortening were crispier, and that's largely because shortening adds no water to dough. Unlike butter, which is about 80 percent fat and 20 percent water, shortening is 100 percent fat. Cookies made with butter were softer and cakier.
Our advice? You can use butter in cookie recipes that call for shortening; the cookies may be more flavorful, but they are also likely to be less crisp.
Refrigerating Cookie Dough
Can I make and refrigerate cookie dough and then bake the cookies a few at a time over several days?
The amount of time you can refrigerate cookie dough before baking depends on the presence and type of leavener in the dough. To sort through holding times for doughs with different (or no) leaveners, we made four batches of sugar cookies: one with baking powder, one with baking soda, one with both, and the last (an icebox cookie) with neither. We baked six cookies from each batch every day for a week. We found that the dough with baking soda held well for two days, but was a little flatter on the third. Cookies with both baking powder and soda began to lose lift after four days. Baking powder–leavened cookie dough maintained good lift all week. The unleavened cookies held well all week.
The cookies with baking soda were the losers in the holding test because soda is a single-acting leavener, meaning that it begins to make lift-giving air bubbles as soon as it gets wet and comes in contact with an acid. Once started, this action continues until all the leavening power is spent—so there's a time limit. Baking powder is double acting, so it releases gas twice: once when it gets wet, and again when it heats up. So even if the first batch of air bubbles is spent, the second action will allow cookies to rise in the oven.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Cookie dough made with baking soda is best used within two days. Recipes with both powder and soda can be made four days ahead. Recipes with baking powder or no leavener can be made up to seven days ahead.
Making a Foil Sling
With their gooey fillings and high sugar content, brownies and bar cookies and often snack cakes can be nearly impossible to remove from their baking pans—no matter how well the pan is greased. After baking countless batches, we finally found a method that works every time. Lining the pan with an aluminum foil or parchment paper "sling" before baking prevents any casualties. Once cooled, the bar cookies may be lifted easily from the pan, transferred to a cutting board, and cut into tidy squares.
1. Fold two long sheets of aluminum foil so that they are as wide as the baking pan (if the dish is rectangular, the two sheets will be different sizes). Lay the sheets of foil in the pan, perpendicular to one another, with the extra foil hanging over the edges of the pan.
2. Push the foil into the corners and up the sides of the pan. Try to iron out any wrinkles in the foil, smoothing it flush to the pan. Grease the sides and bottom before adding the batter.
3. After the brownies, bars, or cakes have baked and cooled, use the foil sling to lift and transfer them to a cutting board before cutting into squares. The foil should easily peel away.
Cookie Decorating 101
1. For a smooth, evenly glazed cookies, spoon a little glaze on the center of the cookies, then spread it out in an even layer using the back of the spoon.
2. After glazing the cookies, sprinkle with crushed candy canes, colored sugar, or chopped nuts.
3. To add detail to a cut-out cookie, spoon some glaze into a zipper-lock bag, push it to a bottom corner, and snip off the corner of the bag with scissors to make a piping bag.
4. After you've piped outlines onto a cookie, go back and fill in with colored glazes. This technique also works well for gingerbread people or Christmas trees.
5. To add textural detail, run a fluted pastry wheel lightly over the surface of the cookie before it's baked. This not only makes pretty garlands on a Christmas tree, but it can also create a quilted effect on a round cookie if done with an angled crosshatch pattern.
6. Place glaze in a zipper-lock bag, pip small dots on the cookies then top with shiny, bead-like decorations. When set, the glaze will hold the beads in place.
The Right Tools for Making Holiday Cookies
Stand Mixers
Stand mixers can make easy work of mixing cookie dough. They come with either one beater arm or two. We prefer mixers with "planetary action," which is effective at reaching the sides and center of the work bowl and ensures that all of the cookie dough gets incorporated. All three of our winning inexpensive stand mixers feature this kind of movement.
Hand-Held Mixers
When making cookie dough, we've found that a hand-held mixer can yield the same results as a stand mixer, just a little more slowly. Look for a hand-held mixer that offers excellent control with gentle low speeds and powerful high speeds. In short: buy either of our top finishers, which offered all of these things—and cost a fraction of the price of a stand mixer.
Square Cake Pans
Years of baking brownies and bar cookies have taught us what to look for in a square cake pan. Always opt for a pan with a dark coating, which promotes better browning than a shiny, light-colored coating. And make sure the pan is sturdy enough to withstand denting. We also always recommend lining your square pan with a foil sling. Doing so makes retrieving your bar cookies an effortless task.
Parchment Paper
Lining your cookie sheets with parchment paper is a quick and easy way to make sure your cookie sheets stay clean and your cookies release effortlessly. We found that all brands performed well in the charring and release tests, but the one area in which the products varied was width. Our favorite brand was the widest product of the bunch.
Cookie Sheets
What's the ideal cookie sheet? We found it to be a heavy sheet with handles on the two short sides and with a light-colored matte finish. (Darker nonstick sheets brown too quickly.) Plus, cookies should release easily from the sheet, even when unlined. We tested several models to find one that met all these requirements.
Cooling Racks
The primary job of a cooling rack is straightforward. But a good cooling rack should do more than simply cool off cookies. It should be sturdy, able to withstand a hot broiler, and clean up without warping or getting damaged. It should also fit inside a standard 18 by 13-inch baking pan, allowing it to be used for many more tasks than cooling chocolate chip cookies.
Key Ingredients for Making Holiday Cookies
All-purpose flour is a key ingredient in nearly every cookie recipe. It is a blend of high- and low-protein wheat flour and, as the name implies, is the go-to flour in most baking applications. Look for a bag labeled unbleached, as bleaching flour alters the proteins, making them less inclined to form strong gluten.
Unsalted Butter
We only use unsalted butter in our holiday cookies. Not only is its salt content (or lack thereof) consistent, but it contains less water than salted butter. Excess water interferes with the development of gluten, which is vital to producing that perfect cookie texture.
Vanilla Extract
Believe it or not, if you only use vanilla for baking cookies and cakes, there's not much difference between a well-made synthetic vanilla and the real thing. However, if you're only buying one bottle of vanilla for baking and making cold and creamy desserts, the bottle you buy makes a difference.
Dark Chocolate Chips
Chocolate chips typically have less cacao and less cocoa butter than chocolate bars, which means the chocolate is less fluid when melted, making it easier for chips to hold that classic teardrop shape. But it also means chips tend to be more gritty and grainy than bar chocolate. Our winning chip, not surprisingly, has the same cacao percentage as the brand's dark chocolate bar.
Milk Chocolate Chips
Milk chocolate, by definition, contains enough milk solids and milk fat to give it a distinctly milky flavor. But like dark chocolate, the best tasting brands feature chips with bolder chocolate flavor, higher fat content, and lower sugar content.
When it comes to cinnamon, there are many fancy labels out there—with prices to match. But when it comes time to purchase the best bottle of cinnamon for your baking, our tests found that most brands of cinnamon rated reasonably well as long as they were fresh.
Our Favorite Holiday Cookie Recipes
Best Christmas Cookies
Easy-to-decorate cookies don't need to taste lousy. Our version of this classic holiday cookie uses a combination of egg yolks, sour cream, and butter, which keeps the dough tender and flavorful. We also found that sandwiching the dough between sheets of parchment paper allowed us to roll it out without adding more flour, which can lead to tough cookies.
Round Spritz Melting Moments
These delicate butter cookies literally melt in your mouth thanks to cornstarch worked into the dough. The other gluten-free ingredient we used to create the ultra-crumbly texture: Rice Krispies. The ground cereal added the volume we were looking for without toughening the crumb.
Hermit Cookies
Chewy hermit cookies bring together raisins and warm spices such as cinnamon, allspice, and ginger. We found that adding these spices to browned butter bloomed their natural flavor, and it avoided a dusty texture from too much ground spice. Pureed raisins (softened in melted butter) helped distribute raisin flavor into every bite.
Hazelnut Chewies
Although Nutella is the star ingredient in these cookies, instant espresso powder serves to deepen the chocolate flavor. Butter temperature is also important for the texture of these chewy cookies, as cold butter made for flat cookies. A roll in toasted, chopped hazelnuts added crunch and reinforced the Nutella's hazelnut flavor.
Chocolate-Peppermint Sandwiches
We were careful to underbake these sandwich cookies to keep them moist and chewy. Using only a small amount of peppermint extract ensured that it didn't overwhelm the chocolate flavor. And just for fun, we grabbed food coloring and dyed the filling green and red.
Molasses Lemon Spice Sandwich Cookies
A trio of spices gives the cookies plenty of punch, and the lemony frosting complements the strong spices perfectly. What's more, the frosting is the perfect blend of creamy and firm: easily spreadable but stiff enough to glue the spiced sandwich cookies together.
Chocolate Turtle Cookies
Chocolate Turtle Cookies combine soft caramel candies with a pecan-crusted rich, chocolate cookie. We kept these turtles light and airy by avoiding egg whites. The water in the egg whites blended with the flour to form gluten, which made for tough cookies.
Hazelnut-Lemon Curd Kisses
To give these easy-to-assemble cookies a strong, nutty flavor, we toasted the hazelnuts. Through our tests, we learned that homemade lemon curd makes for a better cookie. But if you are pressed for time this holiday season, jarred lemon curd will work nearly as well.
Fairy Gingerbread Cookies
These super-thin gingerbread cookies melt in your mouth the moment you take a bite. Their unique shape comes from an unconventional spreading technique. And for their intense ginger flavor, we used two different kinds: grated fresh ginger and toasted ground ginger.
Nutty Chocolate-Raspberry Thumbprints
For a chocolate thumbprint cookie with intense chocolate flavor, we turned to Dutch-processed cocoa powder. Toasting the pecans and rolling the dough balls in them added a pleasing nuttiness to the baked cookies. And for a final touch, we drizzled melted white chocolate chips over the raspberry-filled cookies.
Oatmeal Lace Cookies
This oatmeal cookie is light, delicate, and easy-to-make, as all the ingredients come together in the same saucepan. After trying several sugars, we settled on light brown sugar for the crisp texture we were after. It has less moisture than dark brown sugar, which gave us a chewier version.
Pecan Triangles
These easier-than-they-look cookies combine toasted pecans with a caramel-coated cookie base. The pat-in-the-pan crust bakes quickly in your square baking pan, and the caramel coating (a combination of brown sugar, butter, and honey) comes together in less than 5 minutes.
Boozy Biscotti
For a version of biscotti that had the absolute perfect crisp, crunchy texture, we turned to an odd ingredient: instant grits. As for the flavor, the recipe's "boozy" name comes from spiced rum, which leaves behind a subtle flavor after the alcohol burns away during baking.
Crunchy Spiced Rum Balls
We wanted a no-bake cookie recipe that would be a tasty addition to the holiday dessert table. Soaking raisins in spiced rum allowed them to plump up and absorb the rum. Ground vanilla wafers, almonds, and cornflakes supply the crunch.
Raspberry Mini Cheesecakes
Several shortcuts helped to make these Raspberry Mini Cheesecakes an easy-to-assemble treat. Sweetened condensed milk allowed us to streamline the ingredient list by eliminating several sweeteners. Instead of struggling with crafting individual crusts, we opted to use a single shortbread cookie for each mini cheesecake. And a layer of raspberry jam atop the cookie crust—as well as above the custard—further enhanced the raspberry flavor.
Mississippi Mud Brownie
These moist, fudgy, marshmallow-topped brownies are related to Mississippi mud pie and Mississippi mud cake—desserts that share one trait: dense gooeyness that approximates the texture of the silt that settles in the Mississippi River Delta. Since the brownie layer in our Mississippi Mud Brownies recipe is so chocolaty, the frosting can be minimized to just a melted drizzle.
Raspberry Cream Cheese Brownies
The key to our Raspberry Cream Cheese Brownies' moist and chewy texture is its construction: Spreading the cream cheese in between two layers of brownie batter protected the brownies from drying out. Then, to make sure the raspberry flavor popped and held its own against the chocolate, we cut back on sugar by turning to unsweetened chocolate.
Dream Bars
To give our Dream Bars their characteristic rich coconut and pecan flavor, we toasted the nuts until they were crunchy. And to prevent the shredded coconut from drying out, we turned to a surprising ingredient: cream of coconut. Soaking the shredded coconut in the cream resulted in a rich, moist topping that caramelized beautifully.
Seven Layer Bars
Seven-Layer Bars recipes are loaded with ingredients that fight for the spotlight instead of working cohesively to create a great bar cookie. To improve our recipe's flavor and texture, we toasted the coconut and nuts. We added extra chocolate flavor by drizzling melted milk chocolate over the Seven-Layer Bars' hot crust, and we prebaked the crust to develop its crisp texture. Toffee bits also added a buttery and salty flavor to the crust.


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How to View the Full Version of Sites in Opera Mini and Other Mobile Browsers
Originally published in 2009, this post is updated regularly with the latest workarounds for viewing the desktop versions of mobile sites in mobile browsers.
Last update 30-Jan-2012: Added Gmail and Google Reader workarounds. Updated Yahoo Mail, Facebook, MySpace and Orkut workarounds. Removed broken workarounds for CNN, MSN and Friendster. Removed Newsweek because it no longer has a mobile site so no workaround is needed.
One of the biggest frustrations of using the web with mobile browsers is web sites that force them to use dumbed down mobile versions. I have nothing against mobile sites, obviously. I build them and I write about them here at Wap Review. It's not redirecting mobile browsers to the mobile versions of sites that bothers me. The problem is with mobile sites that lack essential features or content found in the equivalent full web versions and don't offer users an easy way to view the full version. As I've been preaching for years, every mobile site needs to include a Full Version link.
Fortunately many mobile sites now include a link to the full version. For sites that don't it's possible to force the full-web versions of some sites in mobile browsers by using a special URL.
Here's a list of websites where getting to the full version with mobile browsers is harder than it should be along with a workaround. Note that the the ful version may not work well or at all in your mobile browser. But if there's a feature or content you like that's missing from the mobile site, it's worth trying the full version.
Facebook: Use facebook.com/home.php or www.facebook.com/home.php?m2w to load the full version in Opera Mini and most other mobile browsers.
Orkut: Has a link to the full version at the bottom of most mobile pages. Or you can go directly to it by using the URL: www.orkut.com/Home.
MySpace: In the iPhone and Android browsers there's a Full Site link on the MySpace Settings page. It's missing in Opera Mini and many other mobile browsers. No problem, just use www.myspace.com/?ucm=true to get to the full version in any browser.
The Yahoo homepage: use yahoo.com/?m=1 to open the desktop version
Yahoo Mail is a special case. us.mc1137.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?ymv=0 loads the full version of Yahoo Mail but only if you haven't upgraded to the "New" version of Yahoo Mail. Switching to the new mail seems to set a flag that forces the mobile version of mail in nost mobile browsers. You must switch back to Classic Yahoo mail in order to restore mobile access. There doesn't seem to be anyway to switch back using a mobile browser, you have to find a PC to do it.
- Go into Yahoo Mail with a PC browser. Click the "Mail Classic" link at the top of the page and switch to Classic Mail.
- Launch your mobile browser and go to us.mc1137.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?ymv=0 and you should be in Mail Classic.
- The key thing is that you must switch your account to use Mail Classic. You need to use a PC browser to make that switch. There doesn't seem to be any way to use the "New" Yahoo Mail on your PC and the Classic version on your phone.
More full version direct links:
Google News: news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn
Gmail: mail.google.com/mail/h/
Google Reader: www.google.com/reader/view/
Ebay: www.ebay.com/?redirect=mobile
Engadget: www.engadget.com/?m=false
ESPN: espn.go.com
Wall Street Journal: online.wsj.com/home-page
Twitter: mobile.twitter.com/settings/change_ui
Hall of Shame: There are a few sites that stubbornly refuse to let Opera Mini users view their full web version.
- Microsoft: Is the worst offender. Just about all Microsoft sites including Hotmail, MSN and Skydrive force mobile users to a limited mobile version with no known workaround.
- Picassaweb and iGoogle: These two sites are exceptions to Google's generally good job of providing links to the "Classic" non-mobile versions.
If you find workarounds for other sites that are blocking mobile users from their full-web versions please leave a comment and I'll add your discoveries to this post.
For problem sites try changing your browser's user agent
Web sites are able to tell that you are using a mobile browser by reading the HTTP User-Agent header that browsers send. Some mobile browsers let you change the User-Agent to spoof the site into thinking your are using a desktop browser. Here are the browsers that I know about that allow changing the User Agent and how to do it.
Android browser: On most Android phones you can enable a hidden UAString menu item by typing about:debug in the URL bar and pressing Enter. Nothing will seem to change but if you go to Settings and scroll all the way to the bottom you'll see the UASting option. It lets you choose between an Android, Desktop, iPhone or iPad User-Agent
Opera Mobile 11.50 on Symbian and Android: A User Agent option in the Advanced Settings menu lets you choose between mobile and desktop versions.
UC Browser: Java and Symbian 8.0 versions have User Agent option in the Settings (Java) or Settings > Preferences > Network (Symbian) menu.


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HALFMOON — Grace Janikas is an example of what faith in action can accomplish.
She and her husband, Dr. John Janikas, director of emergency medicine at Samaritan Hospital in Troy, are the parents of four young boys.
Janikas will compete Sunday, Oct. 28, against nine women in the Mrs. New York America Pageant, a competition devoted to emphasizing that America's 70 million married women are beautiful, poised, articulate and versatile. The winner will continue to compete for the coveted title of Mrs. America.
Each year, 51 delegates from every state and the District of Columbia from their 20s to 50s earn the opportunity to participate in the national event by winning the state competition. Janikas is about to take that first step.
When elected, the new Mrs. America will make personal appearances throughout the country during her yearlong reign, speaking to and for its married women. She will represent the United States at the Mrs. World pageant in December in Orlando, Fla.
Janikas said if successful, she would use the opportunity to promote awareness and education about domestic violence and homelessness, two issues she is passionate about.
Executive Director Diane DeNigris said the two pageants are "a wonderful experience for women that recognize the importance of community service. They really are great civic organizations that bring like-minded women together. "
DeNigris said 10 contestants will compete for the Mrs. New York America title in Rochester at Rochester Institute of Technology's Inn and Conference Center on the last weekend of October before an audience of 300 family members and friends.
The contestants are divided into groups of three or four women who face five judges who query the women on their platforms, family life and their motivation for competing.
"They'll try to get a feel for desirable qualities in the women, like 'Are they fun to work with, organized and easy going?' 'How well have they balanced a healthy family life?' 'Are they confident?' 'Do they speak well?' " she said. "Each woman will have a one-on-one session with the judges, who discern which candidate presents the qualities that most exemplify the Mrs. New York and Mrs. America titles." Continued...
Both pageants originated in 1977.
Janikas and the contestants will compete in categories including evening gown, swimsuit and interviews before the judges.
She said the path before her marriage was a challenging one. She was a single mother going to nursing school and working as an ER technician.
"I struggled. Because of my hardship and the realization that God provided for me at difficult times, I have a heart for victims of domestic abuse and homelessness," Janikas said.
She was inspired to collect donations of clothing, baby equipment and household items.
Putting out a call on Facebook saying she wanted to start a center that served these needs, the response was overwhelming.
"I started out of my basement, then worked with a realtor to find a building, and over the last two years I picked up and delivered items myself, with friends helping when they could," she said.
By this summer, Janikas had organized a storefront she calls Grace's Closet, located at 29-31 S. Main St. in Mechanicville. Still in its early stages, the clothing and household items center has assisted the needy all over the Capital Region, including flood disaster victims in Cobleskill and Schoharie. She frequently works with CAPTAIN's Treasures and City Mission locations locally.
"Grace's Closet has changed my life dramatically," Janikas said. "I used to love to shop. Now I look around and there is so much excess; I was guilty myself. It makes me sick to my stomach now. I know that life is not about your possessions. It's about giving and helping. I want to be remembered as someone who helped people."
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SQL Packager enables you to package the structure and contents of a Microsoft® SQL Server™ database, database upgrade, or any SQL script, as a .NET executable file or a C# project.
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OSCON is just around the corner, and in this conversation, we chat with true open-sourcer Edd Dumbill – co-chair of the conference and hacker behind the scenes.
- Determining what content to feature at OSCON
- Transitions in the open source community as a whole
- Business-strategy considerations associated with open source
- Selecting participants to present at OSCON
- Interrelationships between NoSQL, cloud, and mobile shape the future
- The role of OSCON in the larger sphere of technology
Scott Swigart: To start us off, please take a second to introduce yourself and your involvement with OSCON.
Edd Dumbill: Sure. I have now been the program co-chair of OSCON for three years, and my colleague Allison Randal is the other program co-chair. I took over from the legendary Nat Torkington.
I wear two hats at O'Reilly. In addition to being program co-chair for OSCON, I'm also responsible for the software that runs the conferences, so I kind of get to hack on both sides of the fence.
Before I started working with O'Reilly, I had done a couple of startups and been an open source hacker for a while. I contributed to the GNOME project and was a Debian developer, so I've been in and around the open source world for quite a long time.
Scott: How many years has OSCON been going now?
Edd: This is the twelfth year, I believe.
Scott: Obviously, you want to keep it fresh every year, so how do you track what the trends and interesting movements are in open source?
Edd: That's a great question, and it's actually the part of the job I enjoy most. We go about it in two ways. The first is we're lucky to have a great response to our call for participation. This year we had well over 700 proposals.
Considering that we could only accept around 120 of those, we unfortunately had to turn away a lot of really great stuff, but the spectrum of responses paints a pretty good picture of what's trending and what's not.
The other thing is that O'Reilly tracks projects and the industry as a whole day in, day out. An example of that effect is the health IT track, which we're doing at OSCON this year. We identified health technology as an area that's ripe for the kind of collaboration that comes with open source.
We're betting on that, and we opened up a separate call for participation for health IT, which we've had a great response to. We hope not only to cover trends there, but also to be part of getting new conversations and collaborations going.
In a similar vein, we've also set up two summit days in parallel with our tutorials. The first summit is an open source and cloud summit, where we're gathering a lot of leaders to discuss the place of open source in the cloud, as well as what the future holds for emerging standards and collaboration.
At the hacker level, we're doing a summit on the Scala language, which is an up and coming JVM language that has both enterprise and hacker credibility. It's been used in places like Twitter and FourSquare, places where there are a lot of scalability concerns. We're organizing a half-day Scala tutorial on Monday, and then a full day of Scala-related talks on Tuesday.
To come back to your question, we observe and try to shape some trends. NoSQL databases will be featured strongly this year. There are also things we identify as up and coming, and we try to give them space to grow and provide a forum for our community to get to know each other.
Scott: Five or ten years ago, it felt like open source was trending toward a separate, parallel universe. We would have an open source operating system with an open source web server on it. There would be open source office productivity tools, open source development environments, open source compilers, and it was all very distinct from the proprietary side of the industry.
Looking at OSCON now, there's stuff about Android and iPhone, and even though Android is open source, it's not really community developed. There's also a lot of material at OSCON about cloud infrastructure, and that area involves a lot of proprietary players, whether it's VMware or Amazon. Amazon built an infrastructure using open source, but they're not exactly open.
It seems that a lot of proprietary stuff shows up in direct conjunction with open source now. There's even beginning to be a thriving open source ecosystem around those proprietary offerings, whether it's iPhone or whether it's a certain cloud provider or something like that.
You mentioned that your involvement with open source stretches back a ways, into some Debian development and that kind of stuff. How have you seen the perception of open source and proprietary software evolving over that time?
Edd: I think there's always been a spectrum, and that spectrum still exists today. At one end, you have the free software movement, which wants a complete stack of completely free software. At the other end is corporate open source, where the control is still very much with the organization, but they're using open source as a tool. And there's a spectrum that lies in between.
O'Reilly has always been pragmatic, recognizing that while the free software movement is a very important thing, you don't have to subscribe to it to get value from open source. The key to open source and sharing source, and also really open data and open standards, is that there's a lot of value to be had without subscribing to either extreme.
Scott: How does that play out with transitions like the current one toward the cloud, which is really causing some new types of convergence between the open source and proprietary worlds?
Edd: One of the really important questions facing open source right now is with software as a service, what is the place of open source? Previously, if my text editor was broken, I could just develop it and hack it, add a new feature and submit the patch. What happens when I can't do that?
You're seeing a slow uptake in the popularity of the Affero GPL license. Not only does it require you to publish the source of you make any changes to it, but, but if you were running this as a service, then you must publish your source.
A poster child project for this is the StatusNet project that Identi.ca runs on top of, but we also saw an announcement this week that Sugar CRM v6 will be AGPL. There is a free software reaction to the web services, and it will be interesting to see how that develops.
We also have Stormy Peters giving a keynote on that topic, and she's also hosting a Birds of a Feather session and a bunch of lightning talks on it. I expect OSCON will be a forum this year where we can talk about our reaction to cloud and open source.
With regard to what you're saying about how open source has transitioned away from free software idealism and so on, corporations are catching on more and more to the fact that open source is a very useful business tool. Tim O'Reilly made the point that you can see open source as a tool used by the second player in the market.
Taking phones as an example, the iPhone has a lot of dominance with a completely closed platform. The key for Android is that it's open source, so they're getting a competitive advantage by opening up. We are seeing that particularly in the mobile segment, but in other places too.
Open source is becoming a business tactic, and OSCON will have a lot of content to help guide businesses.
Scott: We've interviewed people from a lot of companies that are wrapped around open source projects. We have found it to be quite common that somebody had an idea, built an open source project, and did the care and feeding of it for a while.
Then, when they got a lot of people using it, they launched a company around it to provide professional services, customization, support, and so on. It may be a bit of a stretch to say that most popular open source projects have some kind of company kind of wrapped around them, contributing code, but sometimes it seems that way.
What are your thoughts on that? Can you give us a little bit of preview about the bullet in the conference description, "use open source effectively as part of your business strategy?"
Edd: In the business track, we're targeting two kinds of audiences. The first is corporations that are thinking about open sourcing their code bases. OSCON is a great place for people to get oriented into the open source platform.
The other audience is businesses who are using open source. You can leave yourself open to a number of problems if you're not actively tracking your use of open source and the associated licensing. Those issues can be especially complex in acquisition scenarios.
In general, open source developers need to pay more attention to matters of law. We have a session from Bradley Kuhn and Karen Sandler, which is proving very popular already, called "The Bare Essentials of Legal Issues for Developers."
The goal of that session is to teach what developers need to know about trademarks, copyright, and patents. People can't just release open source code and then forget about it. The future of their project is vulnerable on all three of those fronts, and people must not be ignorant about it.
Scott: At this point, it seems to be inevitable for a software company to run into open source, whereas ten years ago, everything they were using might have been proprietary.
To look at the really big examples, IBM obviously interacts with open source and contributes to it a lot. Oracle just acquired Sun, so there's a ton of open source in their portfolio. Even Microsoft now contributes to the Linux kernel and has a whole bunch of little projects they've released as open source.
If your company gets really huge, it will almost certainly interact with projects and contribute code, but more along the lines of what you're alluding to, your developers are just going to want to use it.
The difference between an Apache license and a GPL license can have huge ramifications if you're bundling the code with something you're distributing.
Edd: Absolutely, and companies need to be aware of that. There's another aspect that we're also covering. I think business and community in the open source world are very much interlinked. You can't really use open source in isolation from its communities.
We have a whole community track that discusses things like how to manage a community full of contributors, how to be an effective leader in those places, and how to foster diversity.
We have a fascinating panel that Leslie Hawthorn's put together about financial incentives in open source. Leslie ran the Google Summer of Code Project, and she just recently left Google. I'm really looking forward to that, just to hear the panel talk about what works and what doesn't work and how you can effectively use money to accelerate and encourage open source projects.
Scott: It's a fascinating topic, and a lot of open source projects have failed because a company thought it was going to be easy. They just threw the code out there, but the community didn't come, or maybe it fractured. There are a lot of very smart people working with open source, and a certain percentage are very sure that what they believe is absolutely right.
Community managers need to address the issues that come along with strong personalities, and they need to incent people to do work that nobody really feels like doing, even though it's critical. Getting community contributions requires a different mindset than when you have a hundred developers on staff.
There's also a whole domain of expertise associated with deciding strategic issues like whether to follow the aquarium model or the community model.
Edd: That's true, and the community as a whole is only now finding out a lot of those things. There's only a handful of projects that you can look to for a ten-year span of experience, and some of them have gone through pretty radical overhauls.
There's another presentation from Dave Beckett, who works for Yahoo! now. He's been maintaining infrastructural projects like the PNG since 1994. His presentation is called "Mature Open Source: Making Your Software Last a Decade."
What's fascinating about him is that he's just one guy. As opposed to the corporate side with incentives and whatnot, he started off more or less as a solo hacker and kept his projects going. As time has gone on, he has slowly expanded the pool of participants and so on.
I'm glad that we're hearing the story from both ends. The corporate side is talking about taking their projects open or funding projects, and the lone hacker side is talking about how to stick with something and slowly build participation without going crazy.
Scott: OSCON is in a fairly unique position to really understand open source developers, because you've been running this conference for 12 years now.
Open source has evolved with corporations getting more involved, but there's still that core constituency of open source developers. Are you guys ever surprised by what resonates or doesn't resonate with those developers?
Edd: When you put together a conference, you've got to have several things in mind. First and foremost, people are paying to come there, so it's got to be useful and relevant. Over and above that, it has to educate and challenge as well.
As program chairs, we play our part both in recognizing people in the community who've got something different and challenging to say and inviting people who we think will stretch people's minds and thinking in our keynotes.
Scott: So you're not shying away from controversy, in other words. If you think somebody has a really intriguing point of view, you're OK with it being somewhat controversial?
Edd: I think so. For example, we have been sponsored by Microsoft, and they used our conference to announce their open source initiatives. When they first did that, it was the most frosty, hostile reception that they probably feared.
Still, although there was controversy, the OSCON crowd is a civilized and human one. In fact, I've never known a warmer bunch of people to work with, and to be among for a week. Nevertheless, because we're geeks, we debate with a certain degree of ferocity.
To their credit, Microsoft stuck with it, and by year's end, they started to deliver on a variety of fronts.
Sean Campbell: You obviously have a defined process that involves committees and so on to determine which people are asked to present at OSCON, and I imagine that there are certain best practices to get invited as part of that process.
Without naming names, obviously, are there two or three things that you see a lot of people do that either help or hurt their efforts to appear as speakers or panelists at the conference?
Edd: First, we certainly like to hear from the principals themselves. It's generally a disadvantage if a PR company submits a proposal on your behalf, for instance. When we deal with the actual speaker, that person has much more of a personal investment, and we have a clearer understanding of what's going on.
We do sometimes accept things that are submitted by PR, and that's the way certain companies prefer to operate. The reason that it typically puts them at a disadvantage is that when a geek writes for other geeks, it tends to speak more directly to the audience. If it's written by somebody else, it doesn't quite grab you in the same way.
The second thing is that we like to see a fair amount of detail. We have 700-plus proposals, and part of the way we can be persuaded that you know what you're talking about is that you're able to write in a coherent manner and you give detail about the subject matter.
Not every superstar hacker is a superstar presenter, so the ability to present your thoughts clearly, even in just a description and abstract, is a pretty key indicator for us. We also look for the subject matter to be fresh and concrete, rather than being based on buzzwords.
For established projects, we tend to get a lot of proposals that describe "the state of X" or "what's new with X in 2010." That's all well and good, but frankly, you can read that information off a blog, and we tend to de-emphasize those.
In the past, we've put them in lightning talks, where maybe 16 projects got five minutes each to say what was up and coming, but we're not even doing that this year. These days everyone can read a blog or a changelog or a tweet or whatever. We're looking for a lot more practical experience, or somebody to put forward an interesting new spin or viewpoint.
Sean: Someone who's used to giving monologues or who is just too sensitive may not be a good panelist. For a panel, you may want someone who is a bit of a contrarian to make things interesting, without being so far in that direction that the conversation seems fractured.
How do you balance looking for someone to participate on a panel versus an individual speaking slot?
Edd: I think you said it pretty well, and to be honest, we don't actually accept a huge number of panels. It's very difficult to do a good panel, and I think some of it comes down to the personal preferences of the chairs.
Neither Allison nor I like to do too many panels, largely because if they don't go well, they don't tend to be very useful means of communicating to people.
Sean: How do people get involved in the actual planning side of the conference? Particularly because O'Reilly is a for-profit corporation, what is the experience like for someone who is not an O'Reilly employee and wants to participate? What channels do you direct that kind of feedback to?
Edd: We have a variety of channels, and we do rely very heavily on community contributions, with the first point of contributing obviously being through the call for proposals. A lot of longstanding friends of the conference contribute in that way.
We try to listen to the largest possible swath of people in and around the community, including our company. We do have a formal program committee made up of 20 to 30 folks active in the various orbits that OSCON covers.
We're always looking for people to invite onto that committee who are active in their particular part of the open source world or interested in how to make OSCON better.
It's a broad conference, so Allison and I as chairs need to rely heavily on the expertise of people in various areas. We have a Perl sub-committee, and people in Python, PHP, Postgres, and so on. We do some degree of self organizing, and they have little committees of reviewers who review all the talks.
We try to make sure that every single proposal is seen by at least two people, and very often a lot more than that. Everything is read and considered and voted on.
Scott: To call out a technical point, I see that you've included NoSQL as a topic in cloud. How intersected do you feel like those two are? In other words, would we have a big interest in NoSQL if it wasn't for the cloud?
Edd: That's an interesting point. We have three broad topic areas that we see as the growth areas this year: NoSQL, cloud, and mobile. All of them are interrelated, and to understand that interrelation, you need to dial back a few years, when we were talking about the LAMP stack.
Then we were talking about web applications, and the web sews all these topics together. The question of whether we would be as interested in NoSQL if we didn't have the cloud is interesting from the standpoint that they both stem from the massively distributed and popular information network that we all use, called the web.
Perhaps the aspect that brought NoSQL to the biggest audience is the need to scale web applications and to be able to build inverted indices from regular SQL databases for performance reasons.
The vast majority of NoSQL applications sit side-by-side with an SQL database. There's a collaboration and a cooperation going on there, and it's a hybrid architecture.
Another interesting spin to NoSQL concerns graph databases. They have been around for a good while, but the rise of social networking on the web has finally given us a graph a lot of people care about. Again, you've got web applications driving that side of it, too.
Mobile is now quite interlinked with everything else. It is no longer an option, whether to add a mobile interface to your application. It's kind of expected, rather than a value-add, if you're launching any kind of commercial service.
Looking at the overall package as a bunch of thin clients and a bunch of chunky servers at the back end, it's clear that mobile and cloud go hand in hand. If the client can do less, then the server has to do more.
All these issues are growing together, and the other very popular thin client, of course, is the web browser. One must not underestimate the importance of the HTML5 feature set. You've basically got feature-equivalent thin clients in the mobile world and the actual desktop.
One of the bets we're making this year is that if you're looking to target everywhere, including Android, iPhone, and the rest, then web technologies are the sane choice, as well as the most open route.
A lot of people are rightly worried about developing solely for an Apple platform, when they can change the terms and conditions, and blow what you're doing out of the water.
Scott: In another conversation earlier today, someone observed that people get too hung up about building iPhone applications with their proprietary SDK, Objective C and that kind of stuff. Most of those applications could be built as web applications, and they can even run locally on the phone, with local storage.
There seems to be an awareness problem, where people aren't really considering that option. Do you think that web-based approach is going to catch on?
Edd: I think this is the year when people are going to figure it out, and we're actually working on that internally at O'Reilly at the moment. We develop a bunch of apps, and a lot of our books have been successful in that format on the App Store.
We think we need to provide more mobile interfaces to the things we do, and personally, I think the conference needs to be one of those.
Developers can either put up with a lot of risk and delay from the App Store, or they can do a perfectly great app using just the mobile browser. The poster child for this is Google's mail, Gmail, which delivers a great experience on the iPhone.
Scott: PhoneGap makes a web app to run local on Android, iPhone, and all that kind of stuff. It looks just like an app, but the whole thing's built using HTML5.
Edd: We have folks presenting at OSCON on that, and I mentioned several of the cross-platform talks about that sort of thing.
Scott: You mentioned that this is going to be the year when this model takes off. Since O'Reilly has the ability to put a spotlight on things, talk a little about the notion that, "With great power comes great responsibility."
You have observed that using proprietary SDKs and so on can require developers to start over from scratch in order to go from iPhone to Android, with very little ability for code reuse. How concerned do you think you need to be with regard to companies' terms of service and so on, when you advocate for a certain development approach?
Edd: Honestly, a lot of those things come down to personal values. The broad picture is that we're obviously very much in favor of openness, transparency, and so on, but we're not breaking with vendors consistently.
We will stand up and make a big deal of it when it matters, like Tim O'Reilly's famous spat with Jeff Bezos' one-click patent, for instance. We also stood up and spoke out directly in favor of Microsoft when they were being hit with a silly patent dispute concerning their web browser.
I don't know that the conflict between various mobile platforms is necessarily any different from Windows versus Linux versus Mac, in the sense that all these different platforms have different terms of engagement, and open source plays a role in each.
As far as mobile's concerned, we're here to help equip developers, so we have a great range of books on iPhone, Android, web standards in HTML5, and so on. Our role is really one of educating, rather than taking a stand on how people should develop.
Scott: I want to be sensitive to the time. Any final thoughts about OSCON that you'd like people to be aware of?
Edd: I'd encourage everyone who reads this to look through the OSCON program. There's a wealth of topics that we've not been able to touch on here. For instance, we have a fantastic hardware track, covering Arduino, things like the Beagle Board, and plug computing apps.
It's become very easy to prototype, and there are a lot of fun things we can put out in the world to process data, connect to the cloud, and monitor and augment reality. That's a fascinating area for us.
We have an operations track,, which is very much following the rise of developer operations as a hybrid discipline, and something else the cloud brings with it.
You can't really run software for the cloud without taking its architecture into account. When you have ten thousand instances of a machine, you need to allow for that, so the Dev Ops discipline is very much growing.
There's so much there, I could go on forever.
Scott: It's obviously a great conference. These are technical people, but at the same time, OSCON really tracks trends, conversations, and debates. Having Microsoft come in was a controversial thing to do, but you guys felt that it was important. It seems that you really live by a philosophy of not shying away from controversial topics.
Edd: That's right. Community means a great deal to us, and we regard it as an enormous privilege to have this conference. The attendees and speakers each year are what makes it a success, and it's absurdly gratifying to stand on stage and welcome people.
It's a fantastic collection of people who are inspiring, entertaining, and controversial. I really couldn't think of a better job.
Scott: Thanks for taking the time to chat.
Edd: Thank you.


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The NY/NJ Region of JRF was fortunate to receive a UJA-Federation grant focusing on Reconstructionist Synagogue Outreach. Hannah Greenstein and lay congregation leader Susan Leon, will share the information learned from project consultants, training sessions and from the strategic formation and implementation of the synagogue outreach plans.
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Hannah Greenstein is the Outreach Coordinator for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation of Metropolitan NY/NJ and a graduating rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Prior to rabbinical school, Hannah worked for the Jewish Outreach Institute, a transdenominational organization that advocates for accepting interfaith couples in the Jewish community. Hannah holds a BA in Jewish Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She currently resided in Westchester with her husband and new baby boy.
Susan Leon is an active lay leader in outreach from Bet Am Shalom and recipient of the NY/NJ Regional Keruv award.
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The Western Union Company (WU), a global leader in payments, today announced the signing of Myanmar Oriental Bank, its first Agent to offer Western Union Money Transfer Services in Myanmar.
The service will offer Myanmar citizens a reliable and swift way to receive money from family and loved ones from around the world.
Western Union is one of the first global money transfer companies to operate in Myanmar, paving the way for formalized international money transfers three months after countries led by the US, European Union and Australia decided to lift investment and trade bans against the country.
Over two million Myanmarese are estimated to be employed across Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh, Japan, Korea, US, Europe and Australia.
Myanmar Oriental Bank, a leading domestic bank in operation for 19 years, is among the first batch of private banks to be authorized to operate foreign currency services in Myanmar.With a network of 19 locations, including representation in main commercial cities of Yangon, Mandalay, Mawlamyaing and Monywa, the Bank will work with Western Union to activate its services in accordance with Central Bank regulations.
"We are encouraged by the speed with which Myanmar Oriental Bank, the Myanmar Central Bank and others in Myanmar are facilitating economic change for their people. Western Union is pleased to be a part of this defining economic change in Myanmar," said Drina Yue, Managing Director and Senior Vice President, Western Union, Asia Pacific.
"We are proud to provide a reliable financial link between overseas Myanmarese and their families back home. Our aim is to expand our network expeditiously and provide 100 percent coverage of countries popular with millions of Myanmarese abroad," she said.
"We are extremely proud to be linked into Western Union's impressive global network linking Myanmar to the rest of the world," said Mr. Mya Than, Chairman of Myanmar Oriental Bank.
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My personal mission is to let you geeks and geekettes know what's coming down the road in movies and television, especially if it's to do with Sci-Fi, Fantasy or Horror. It's not about promoting media as much as it's about sharing what I think you might enjoy. Then I'll have even more people to nerd out with over this stuff.
It also pains me when I ask friends of mine if they heard of some geek show or movie coming out and they don't have a clue. "But I posted it about a month ago" is my reaction. I'm not complaining about my buddies reading my posts, just about how they missed out on something I wanted to talk about.
So to help alleviate the problem of not knowing what's coming out, particularly this fall on TV, I'm giving you all the video promos that have been released thus far for TV shows with that geek bend to them.
First up are a couple shows from CBS.
UNDER THE DOME (premieres June 24th 10pm est.)
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UNDER THE DOME, which premieres Monday, June 24 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on CBS, is based on Stephen King's bestselling novel about a small town that is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by a massive transparent dome.
There's just something about force fields that I've always loved. Especially giant inexplicable ones that trap people in them. Well, maybe those kind weren't the most interesting to me, but this story is. King loves seeing humanity come apart at the fringes.
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Josh Holloway stars as former Delta Force turned U.S. Cyber Command über-agent in a crime thriller that explores the unlimited possibilities of technology. With a special microchip implanted in his brain, he has become the first super computer with a beating heart.
I thought this might be corny when I first heard about it, but after seeing the trailer, it might have some potential.
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Is the 3D dilemma social?
September 23rd, 2011
Stereoscopy is what scientists (and Wikipedia) call creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image. This is achieved by presenting two offset images separately to the left and right eye of the viewer.
Engineers have come up with three methodologies to create the illusion of depth. Two of them involve eyeglasses to either combine separate images from two sources or filter images from a single source to each eye separately. What is working best are liquid crystal shutter glasses. They alternately darken over one eye, and then the other synchronized with the refresh rate of the screen. And how well they work!!! If you have ever asked yourself why your eyes hurt after a 3D movie….It's because you have a colibri in front of your eyes for two ours.
The real illusion is to believe however, that the third, glassless methodology is ever going to work for a broad audience. The basic idea behind it is to have the lightsource split the images directionally into the viewer's eyes. But as the viewer moves his head from left to right, or up to down the image in his head changes. The first commercially available displays try to solve this issue by introducing an eye-tracking device. Recently LG presented the first commercially available screen for multiple users.* While LG is positioning itself as an innovator, they weren't really the first one's to come up with that technology. Plus it doesn't seem to work too well. Imagine 9 people in the room all seeing a different image of the screen….
In their desperation to sell 3D home TV's marketers have identified glasses as the scapegoat for lame global revenues. Some argue there wasn't enough content to incentivize consumers to buy 3D TV's. But what if the real differentiating element of cinema 3D was the screen size? In that case I see Sony on the right track, having started to experiment with virtual reality again. Watching a movie per se has never been a social experience anyway.
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