It’s no secret that newspapers today face tough challenges. They must figure out how to profitably report the news in an era when the news itself instantly becomes a commodity, re-syndicated out to the Internet at large.
Ian Betteridge picks up on this trend, building on the following quote from an interview with Monica Guzman.
I’m [...]
Via Joe Gregorio, I discovered that Google has released one of their internal projects, Protocol Buffers, under an open source license. Protocol Buffers is a fast and efficient data serialization format, along with a simple RPC interface and IDL compiler.
I initially wondered why Google saw fit to define a binary serialization format, when both [...]