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Like the economy and the auto industry, the Detroit Pistons are on an upswing, delving into the free agent market to sign Josh Smith and bringing back their talented young core that's been developing without much notice.
Former UConn center Andre Drummond could become a force in the coming years, and power forward Greg Monroe has a punishing post game. The addition of Smith makes the Pistons a legitimate contender for a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference after some difficult times in Motown.
Team president Joe Dumars made the decision to add longtime Piston Rasheed Wallace to the coaching staff. Wallace retired during 2012-13 after an injury-plagued final season with the Knicks, but his addition to the Pistons' staff shows the organization's seriousness about developing Drummond and Monroe.
For Wallace, it's an opportunity to make a further impact on the game and pass on the skills that made him a splendid interior defender.
"There's a few things I have to do differently as far as preparations, practice — it's fun, exciting," he said. "I know that I can [coach], I know that I have the skill set to be able to help a lot of younger players out, but on the other hand, do I want to do it? Do I want that retirement freedom to be able to do things with my kids. It was a blessing in disguise because my kids are back in Detroit and I have the best of both now."
The Pistons were once one of the prouder organizations in the NBA, but a series of questionable moves, plus the aging of Wallace, Richard Hamilton, and Antonio McDyess, and the trading of Chauncey Billups for erratic and selfish Allen Iverson, caused a tailspin.
Detroit reacquired Billups for leadership, while its lottery picks over the past few seasons — Drummond, Monroe, and Brandon Knight — appear ready to flourish.
"[Smith's] that good of a player, and to have him on this team, expectations should be raised," said Monroe, who averaged 16 points and 9.6 rebounds in 2012-13, his third season.cq "When somebody like that joins the team, expectations are going to rise, and you can't get around that and I understand that. Whether he's here or not, people on the team want things to be different."
The Pistons' core is brimming with potential, especially Drummond, who dominated the Orlando Summer League, scoring 23 points with 18 rebounds Thursday against the Heat. Scouts feared he would be a major bust after just one uneven season at UConn, but Drummond has impressed the organization with his workmanlike attitude and willingness to learn.
A back injury abbreviated his ADD2012-13END rookie season, but he could emerge as one of the league's top defensive stoppers.
"I thought we were a playoff team last year; I never doubt our team," the optimistic Drummond said. "With any team, you bring in a big star [Smith] like that, the expectation of your team raises a lot higher. The fans will expect a lot more, the media's going to expect a lot more, everybody's going to expect a lot more. But you really can't feed into that yet. We haven't played with him yet and we haven't even started. We can't go off what people say."
Drummond will be Wallace's No. 1 project. The Pistons want to return to being a staunch defensive team with imposing players in the paint. Wallace helped out the Knicks during the playoffs, working with Amar'e Stoudemire, and that experience encouraged him to take the idea of coaching more seriously.
And he has quickly bonded with Drummond.
"He's still young and still growing and depending on his athleticism a lot," said Wallace. "To tell you the truth, a lot of 19-year-olds do."
Wallace has always been considered a skilled player who had trouble controlling his emotions. His one season in Boston was a mostly positive experience as he helped the Celtics to the NBA Finals before fouling out in the Game 7 against the Lakers.
Technical fouls as an assistant coach will be frowned upon. Wallace realizes he will have to readjust his attitude to maintain an even keel on the sideline. He is a mentor now, someone the young Pistons watched when they were in their pajamas getting ready for bed. Wallace shaved off his customary wooly hair as a sign of professionalism, and he understands his role in the Pistons' ascension is important.
"I'll tell you what the big thing is, when I was playing I had that passion and fire," he said. "Being a coach, I can still have my passion, but I have to tone it down because I can't make a difference now. I can talk mess but I can't back it up."
McHale will help Howard
add Rockets coach end Kevin McHale and GMadd end Daryl Morey were at the Orlando Summer League with their chests out, proud that their offseason objective of becoming a primary contender in the Western Conference has come to fruition. They nabbed Dwight Howard from the Lakers with a four-year, $88 millioncq deal, then re-signed Francisco Garcia.
Morey has been preparing for two years to get Howard, accumulating salary cap space by trading veterans for draft picks, and then trading those picks, signing players to back-loaded deals, and finally dumping Carlos Delfino and Aaron Brooks. Finally, Morey unloaded troubled forward Royce White on former add Rockets end assistant GM Sam Hinkle, now the GM in Philadelphia, to create even more space.
McHale stepped down as GM in Minnesota in 2008, and was fired as coach of the Timberwolves in 2009, but he convinced Morey he could lead the Rockets and would develop big men, which attracted Howard, who was desperate to escape Los Angeles. The Rockets may not be the favorites in the West, but they could challenge the Thunder, Spurs, Warriors, and Clippers.
"He's going to add a great deal," McHale said of Howard. "And I think James [Harden] loves to pass, loves to drive and kick, and we have a lot of guys who move the ball pretty good. He's going to do really well with us. His ability to control the paint off the board and off the defense is going to start a lot of [fast] breaks for us."
Howard struggled in Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni's pick-and-roll offense, was horrible at the free throw line, and dealt with injuries to his back and shoulder. The Rockets hope a good relationship with McHale, considered one of the best power forwards in history, will help Howard further develop his interior game and improve as an offensive threat.
"You're a finished product the day you retire," McHale said. "Until then you're always doing something, you're always evolving and changing, and I think Dwight is in the process of evolving and changing. He says he feels way better now than he has been, his back feels better. Again, I just anticipate him coming in and doing what he did for years, being the best, most dominant center in the league."
Howard maintains he never wavered in his decision, despite reports that he verbally committed to the Rockets and then changed his mind and was on his way to Los Angeles to discuss matters with Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak.
"He was a little bit upset about that," McHale said. "He said, 'I didn't change my mind.' I had a pretty good feeling but when it was finally done, you're really happy and really looking forward to getting going after we signed him and being part of our team."
Omer Asik, meanwhile, says he does not want to be Howard's backup and would like a trade. The Rockets apparently won't oblige.
Asik averaged a double-double last season, his first as a starter. He was third in the league in rebounding at 11.7 add per game, end trailing only Howard and Orlando's Nikola Vucevic.cq
"You can play two bigs, and you've got to get spacing and your smaller guys have to make sure they keep the court spaced," McHale said. "We'll see where it goes with Omer. I mean, Omer had a great year for us last year. He really became one of the top centers in the league, but when you have an opportunity to get Dwight, it's hard not to. I'm sure right now Omer is a little down in the dumps, but we'll pick him up."
For the first time since the Timberwolves reached the Western Conference finals in 2004 with Kevin Garnett, Sam Cassell, and Latrell Sprewell, McHale has a legitimate contender.
"I'm looking forward to getting together with the team and putting everything together," McHale said. "I feel really comfortable that we can compete with anybody."
Honeycutt hunts for job
Overshadowed on the impressive team the Rockets featured in the Orlando Summer League was former UCLA standout Tyler Honeycutt, who is trying to catch on in an NBA training camp after passing through Sacramento and Houston with little impact.
Honeycutt, who turns 23 on Monday, was one of the top ADDhigh schoolEND swingmen in the country when he committed to UCLA in 2010, but after two solid but not spectacular seasons with the Bruins he declared for the draft and was the Kings' second-round pick. He played 24 games in two years with the Kings before being shipped to Houston in the Thomas Robinson/Patrick Patterson deal. He was waived by the Rockets 13 days later.
Honeycutt finished the ADD2012-13END season with Rio Grande Valley of the Development Leaguecq and now sees his NBA career at stake after failing to establish himself with two teams. At such a young age, Honeycutt finds himself in a difficult position, fighting for a chance for a training camp invitation, realizing that he is quickly becoming an afterthought to NBA front offices.
"I'm just trying to get comfortable; I really haven't played in the last two years," he said. "I'm just finishing the D-League. I am just going out here and trying to show my all-around game, rebound, pass the ball, make the right plays, and knock down the open shots when I've got them."
Honeycutt had the chance to develop into a bona fide NBA prospect but he, like many others before him, bolted college prematurely, believing his game would adapt better to the NBA. The Kings were filled with young players, so Honeycutt and his not-quite-ready-for-the-NBA game was relegated to working out before games and after practices to sharpen his skills.
"I kind of use it as a chip on my shoulder because I want to show everybody what I can do," he said. "I belong in this league. I haven't played summer league before and I've been doing all right."
Honeycutt is part of several storied UCLA recruiting classes that have experienced difficulties at the next level. Honeycutt's classmate Malcolm Lee was a 2011 second-round pick of the Chicago Bulls and was dealt ADD to the Minnesota Timberwolves on draft night.END He was traded to the Golden State Warriors in a salary-dumping move ADDlast month.END
"Everybody is trying to get their chance. Not everybody is fortunate enough to make it but they want to at least make money somewhere playing basketball," Honeycutt said. "Of course, this is the level everybody's trying to get to, and as for myself, I'm trying to get back into the league."
The options are limited. Honeycutt could crack an NBA roster, return to the NBADL, head for Europe on a more lucrative contract, or remain in the States, waiting for a tryout. The life of an NBA journeyman is not easy, and sobering for those who never expected to be ADDin that position.END Honeycutt was hurt by his decision to leave school and then landing in a place that had little use for a developing player.
Honeycutt is fighting for his professional existence, trying to display a game that league scouts haven't seen since high school — attempting to show his game remains relevant.
"It's something I have to weigh at the end of the [summer], see after this summer what I'll do," he said. "Of course, every player's dream is to play in the NBA, but not everybody has the chance."
The Pistons are quite interested in Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo, but they don't have a package to offer that would attract president of basketball operations ADD Danny Ainge END to making a deal. The Celtics would presumably ask for emerging center Andre Drummond, who is as close to untouchable as a younger player can get. Detroit would like to send the Celtics Brandon Knight and an expiring contract, but that wouldn't be nearly enough. Detroit doesn't have a first-round pick to offer because of the Ben Gordon deal that gave the Bobcats the choice of a Pistons draft pick over the next four seasons . . . There are going to be several players squeezed out of the free agent market and forced to sign below-market deals. One of those players is former Celtic Nate Robinson, who is coming off a sparkling season with the Bulls. His reputation may precede him during free agency. Robinson is seeking a multiyear deal and security considering he's played for four teams in the past three years. But with the market drying up by the day, Robinson may have to accept something near a minimum deal or the biannual exception of $2 million despite deserving more. Teams are just trying to organize their salary caps, so many of the lower-priority players will begin to sign in the coming weeks . . . Former Celtic Chris Wilcox wants to return to the NBA after an uneven season in 2012-13. that included surgery to repair an enlarged aorta.?? Wilcox, ADDwho had surgery in March 2012 for an enlarged aorta,END said he never got into proper shape because of the long recovery from the surgery. He's going to be 31 in September and will have to show he can rebound and play solid defense to get a job . . . Looking for an NBA job, 34-year-old Rasual Butler suited up for the Pacers as the oldest player in the Orlando Summer League. Butler hasn't played a full NBA season since 2009-10 and was out of the league last season.
Gary Washburn can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @gwashNBAGlobe. Material from interviews, wire services, other beat writers, and league and team sources was used in this report.


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It's 4:30 PM on a Wednesday. You're on the clock until 5, but you've finished the all of the sweeping or checked out your last customer or filed the day's paperwork. It's prime time for daydreaming: what would it be like to be your own boss? You close your eyes, and you're running a little beachside tiki bar, or taking that leather-tooling hobby to the next level. It's a good way to kill 30 minutes.
Ahh, the impossible dream!
But then I started thinking: is it so impossible? Most of the entrepreneurs I know didn't go to business school, or take over a family company. They had no formal training, or mentor to help them. These small business owners come from diverse backgrounds – retail sales and law school and the TV industry. Unconventional resumes for people who now juggle marketing and customer service and design and shipping, right? Maybe not.
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What is the profile of an entrepreneur? What's the required skill set? A pinch of fearlessness, a lot of drive, the ability to self-start, a knack for business? It's a mixed bag, partially learned and somewhat innate. And these many-hat-wearing folks, for the most part, gleaned their knowledge through an eclectic history of experiences, and things picked up from past jobs.
Can your day job help you kick start your dream job, too? Consider the following:
- Does your company have a program to help subsidize the cost of educational workshops, courses, or conferences?
- Can you identify anyone with mentor-potential within your organization?
- Is it possible to take a risk-free unpaid leave or negotiate reduced hours while you work on building your business?
- What other skills can you learn and what resources are available to you?
I spoke to ten Shopify merchants who started their careers as beekeepers and models and bankers. Their resumes, on the surface, may not seem relevant, but these entrepreneurs draw from their past work experiences every day.
Ten day jobs that have entrepreneur training baked in:
1. Former Career: Zookeeper
Entrepreneur skills acquired: Multitasking, juggling irregular hours, customer service
"I worked a lot with animals but it's also very important to provide an education and to acknowledge the visitors – I gained a lot of my customer service skills and experience in that profession. I learned how to make customers happy with compromise ("No, you really can't pet this bird; but I can give you a peacock feather to take home!"). I think having a unique job with weird requirements and hours helped me to prepare for the one-woman show I currently run. At the zoo, I was always on my feet, doing different tasks – no two days were the same. It's natural for me to juggle multiple activities at once. My current lifestyle is similarly a very active job, not a typical 9-5, which is what I'm familiar and comfortable with. I don't think I could sit at a desk or computer all day, everyday."
– Taylor Scarboro, Owner, Sugar & Succulents
2. Former Career: Case Worker, Social Development
Entrepreneur skills acquired: listening, customer service/care, versatility, problem-solving
"My job was to find a solution to people's problems and at times they were life and death situations. I had to think fast under pressure while providing the best possible customer service. My time with the Ministry was the biggest training ground for me as I never had any formal education in business. Everything I learned, I'm able to apply to my business life: Spend more time listening than talking. In business if you're not listening to your customer, you're leaving a lot of business on the table and there is no room for you to grow and improve. Kindness and compassion – you may think this has nothing to do with business but I strongly believe they should be must-haves in all business cultures. At the end of the day without people, business is nothing, we are nothing. You need to be able to understand your customer from their perspective, you don't need to agree but regardless you need to be kind and show compassion towards them. And, don't be scared to try new things – in my previous job, things were never black and white, so I was forced to think of different ways to solve problems. In business you will need to get out of your comfort zone and do things you've never done before. Yes it can be scary but you will never know otherwise."
– Gustavia Lui, Owner, Staavias
At the end of the day without people, business is nothing, we are nothing.
3. Former Career: Insurance Claims Adjuster
Entrepreneur skills acquired: organization, patience
"Working in insurance adjusting can be stressful in a catastrophe situation. For everyone. Most importantly, the people that's been affected by a hurricane, flood or other natural disaster. You're there to take care of them. Patience and organization is absolute key while you help someone get their lives back on track."
– Barcus Patty, Owner, Thrice
4. Former Career: Model
Entrepreneur skills acquired: photography, styling, marketing
"The way people should start businesses is to look at their lives and ask themselves, "What are the tools I've been given that no one else has been given, that add up basically to strategy where I win?" I modelled for Ford Models, and because of that, I know how to run a casting. I know how to run a photoshoot. I know what clothes look like on and off a person. And that's the online marketing version of fashion."
– Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart, Founder, President and Creative Director, Vaute
The way people should start businesses is to look at their lives and ask themselves, 'What are the tools I've been given that no one else has been given?'
5. Former Career: Business Development Manager, Food Industry
Entrepreneur skills acquired: curation, UX, branding
"Working in the food tech sector, my role was to identify key partners who would build and identify a brand then on-board them to our mobile apps, ready to promote to our customers. I realised the importance of curation. The importance to present customers with only the best products in an industry and brands can affect the UX for better or for worse. With my new knowledge of curation and my previous experience of onboarding brands I got to work contacting designers I wanted on our website in December and went from 15 to 50 designers in two months. I would say I am like most early business owners where in essence, you want everything to work right now, but I have learned through working with startups that the best thing to do is start slow, fix operational issues, push it a bit, fix more techy issues then push harder. A key bit of advice I was given when I decided to leave my job was to focus on getting people to love your brand than people to like your brand which is something I stick by and I am always reaching out to strike conversation with our customers. It helps me to really understand who they are but most importantly, they get to understand us, what we do and why we do it and hopefully start loving us!"
– Lewis Phillips, Owner, The Pommier
6. Former Careers: Beekeeper / Tech Startups
Entrepreneur skills acquired: patience, perseverance
"I've been keeping bees since 2005 as my hobby and antidote to the stress of running several high-tech start up companies. Around 2008 my wife and I started experimenting with making lip balms and hand creams in our kitchen using the honey, beeswax and propolis from our bees. The main lesson I learned from my previous commercial life (and possibly the bees) was one of patience and probably stubbornness. I just knew in my gut that there was a market for our products and great feedback from our customers kept us going even though the business was not yet profitable - I sometimes think it's a thin line between stubbornness and stupidity, but there will always be times where you will simply want to give up and walk away. Nothing comes easily and if you stick it out long enough,and if the product is "right" you will eventually succeed."
– Simon Cavill, Founder, Bee Good Skincare
7. Former Careers: Brand Manager, Healthcare / Relationship Manager, Banking
Entrepreneur skills acquired: branding, networking, negotiation, accounting, communication
"It helped to have worked in 2 very different industries (banking and healthcare) and in different roles (finance and marketing). To run a small business, you need to know a little bit about everything. You also need to understand how the different parts of the business work together. I constantly draw on experiences that I had in my prior roles. Even though the industries were totally different from pet products, the fundamentals are similar. Accounting classes and my prior career in banking have been invaluable in teaching me how to forecast, budget, determine pricing, and run scenarios. You have to know what is driving sales, costs, and margins in order to build a business strategy and optimize your business."
– Diane Danforth, Owner, Pawdentify
To run a small business, you need to know a little bit about everything. I constantly draw on experiences that I had in my prior roles.
8. Former Career: Set Decorator, Film Industry
Entrepreneur skills acquired: sourcing, curation, networking
"My job back then was to source very specific things for films. They would say 'We need a yellow couch'. I would go everywhere to find something that would do. My whole job was to familiarize myself with the city and all the corners, all the places. I began to know what's in all the stores. I have fairly good visual memory because of that, and it comes in handy now. As I was doing that job, I was building my resources for film but was also finding interesting things that I was using in my own life. I said, 'I want to get out of film. I want to use the skills I've acquired of taking the best options and creating something cohesive and beautiful and useful.'"
– Sophia Pierro, Owner, Present Day Gifts
9. Former Career: Broadcasting
Entrepreneur skills acquired: writing, photography, strategy, goal-setting
"For 10 years, I've worked for a major TV broadcaster, as a news and documentary script editor, narrator and occasional news reader. My training in strategic planning helps me envision the big picture, identify goals and the steps needed to get there (and switch gears, as necessary). We actually cut the cord with regular 9-to-5 employment some time ago and have made a decent living as freelancers, so our mindset is pretty entrepreneurial. The TV writing experience has helped me learn how to write concise, compelling stories and pick the right images to illustrate them. That helps when I'm writing blog posts and catalog copy. It's made me a better visual thinker. And taught me that I always need to view what I'm creating through the eyes of the audience."
– Virginia Sorrells, Co-Owner, Ajimi Ichiba
My training in strategic planning helps me envision the big picture, identify goals and the steps needed to get there.
10. Former Career: Real Estate Broker
Entrepreneur skills acquired: negotiation, hustle
"The cutthroat Manhattan real estate business was an amazing course in negotiation, hustle, and remaining focused on the end goal of putting together and making a deal work. These skills have come in very handy with suppliers, vendors and designers, especially in a start up with very little capital. Managing all the different personalities and finessing situations to get the deal done comes into play every single day managing Hamptons Glow."
– Rachel Thompson, Owner, Hamptons Glow
The cutthroat Manhattan real estate business was an amazing course in negotiation and hustle.
Suddenly, mid-daydream, you snap back into a reality: you don't have any clue how to run a business, right? But maybe you do. Inadvertently, your career is giving you the skills to forge out on your own.
Don't quit your day job just yet, though – get paid to learn while you work on your side hustle.
What did you do before you were an entrepreneur? Share your story in the comments below.

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Harrisburg is looking back -- way back -- as a way to help it move forward from its financial mess.
The capital of Pennsylvania is auctioning off thousands of historical artifacts to help pay down its debt. Buyers can scoop up 500 historic guns, furniture from Western saloons and brothels, swords from the Revolutionary War, wagons and American Indian jackets trimmed with rabbit fur and fringe. It's a treasure trove of rarities including Buffalo Bill's pipe, Annie Oakley's jewel box, and a wanted poster for outlaw Jesse James.
Harrisburg's troubles started more than a decade ago, when the city decided to invest in a trash incinerator, hoping to make money from fees by taking in trash from neighboring towns. Instead, the investment turned sour and left the city with over $300 million in debt.
Related: SEC sues financially troubled Harrisburg
The auction raises the question of why Harrisburg has amassed such a vast collection of Western and historical goods.
The answer can be traced to the aspirations of former mayor Stephen Reed, who served from 1981 to 2009. Reed hoped to build new museums brimming with historical gems in order to spur tourism and bring much-needed money to the town.
Under his direction, the city spent millions to fill the museums. But plans never got off the ground, and the collection of more than 8.000 artifacts has been collecting dust in storage facilities.
Harrisburg attempted to file for bankruptcy in 2011, but the filing was dismissed by a federal bankruptcy judge. Today, the city of roughly 50,000 is under state receivership and remains saddled with the incinerator debt.
There was even more trouble this spring, when the Securities and Exchange Commission sued the city for fraud, alleging that officials in the Pennsylvania capital misled the public about the city's financial condition.
Auction house Guernsey's, which is running the sale, said there's also a historical connection. Harrisburg was once thought to be the "Gateway to the West" early in United States history, when pioneers and settlers headed out in directions largely unknown, the auction house said.
The auction will run from July 15 to the 21st.


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1765: Three Burglarious Johns
August 28th, 2013 Meaghan
(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.)
On this date in 1765, John Fagan, John Grimes and John Johnson alias Cochran were hanged in Burlington County, New Jersey in a rare triple execution.
The three Johns were convicted of home invasion robbery.
Wrong Three Johns.
On July 18 in Northampton Township, the three men, with their faces painted, burst into the house of Joseph Burr. By "threats of violence" they convinced Burr's wife to give up her keys to the locked cabinets and made off with the following:
1 silver sauceboat
8 silver tablespoons
9 silver teaspoons
A sum of money
A considerable quantity of shirts, aprons, caps and handkerchiefs
A great parcel of "wearing apparel made in the manner of people called Quakers"
They also took three valuable horses from Burr's stable and rode off on them.
Burr and his wife told the authorities they knew the robbers were Irish because "they all had the brogue upon their tongues," and it turned out three Irish laborers had gone missing from a farm near Mount Holly.
The thieves' trail was discovered and a posse caught them red-handed, as it were, riding the stolen horses and carrying the stolen goods.
Justice acted quickly and Fagan, Grimes and Johnson were executed a mere six weeks after their crime. The Burlington County Treasury compensated the jailer his expenses in feeding the three men for 39 days.
According to Burlington County this Gallows Hill "stood not far from the Burlington-Mt. Holly Road (Rte. 541)" — perhaps the present-day Laurel Hill Cemetery.
On this day..
- 1955: Emmett Till lynched - 2020
- 1588: Eight Catholics after the defeat of the Spanish Armada - 2019
- 476: Orestes, father of the last Roman Emperor - 2018
- 388: Magnus Maximus, minimized - 2017
- 1628: Edmund Arrowsmith, Catholic priest - 2016
- 1648: Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle, royalists - 2015
- 1948: Ragnar Skancke, the last executed in Norway - 2014
- 1987: Dale Selby Pierre, Hi-Fi Murderer - 2012
- 1941: Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Indochina Communist cadre - 2011
- 1793: Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine - 2010
- 1944: Bronislav Kaminski, Waffen SS collaborator - 2009
- Themed Set: Russian Revolutions That Weren't - 2009
- 1807: James McLean, twice - 2008
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Most of us just use FOSS, but somebody has to develop and write the code. And the language that's used greatly affects the outcome. If you haven't tried Ruby yet, you owe it to yourself to begin playing with it. If you value joy, if you value simplicity, if you value beauty, then you owe it to yourself to learn Ruby, the emerging jewel of FOSS.
My bookstore browsing pastime introduced me to Ruby. While rummaging through the computer books sections in 2004, I began seeing, and became attracted to, this pretty white covered book with a picture of an ax breaking rocks – Programming Ruby – or otherwise known in the Ruby community as the "pickax" book. Because I liked the simplicity of the cover theme, I picked it up to see what it was about, and this was my introduction to the existence of Ruby.
Now, my primary programming background comes from the embedded system world, where my language of choice was (is) Forth. And when I first started looking through the book, and saw Ruby was this 'pure' object oriented programming (OOP) language, my programming immune system first kicked in. I experienced an automatic rejection response, shuddering about my memories of trying to understand C++ and Java, and wading through a sea of (), {}, and [] just to write a simple program that would be a one-liner in Forth.
But the beauty and simplicity which characterized the book's cover began to display itself in the language. What I began reading with trepidation turned into a joyful exploration of discovery. I truly started to smile when reading the book, because I understood what was going on, almost intrinsically. The lack of complexity and syntactical 'noise' (all those (), {}, []), plus the design philosophy, allowed me to assimilate it by osmosis – it just seeped into my consciousness. And this is by design.
When Yukihiro (Matz) Matsumoto started working on Ruby in 1993, and released it into the wild in 1995, his intent was to make the language easy (even fun) for programmers to use, versus primarily easy for machines to implement. Thus, the 'principle of least surprises' (PLOS) controls how Ruby operates – it mainly does what you expect. Further, DRY (don't repeat yourself) techniques, influenced by Agile and Rails paradigms, promote even more simplicity and conciseness. Yes, idiomatically written Ruby is true beauty to behold.
But my intent here isn't to provide a tutorial on programming in Ruby. For that you can visit Ruby's home, and even play with an online interpreter here, while for the really adventurous check out the slightly warped apologue Why's Poignant Guide and experience what 'chunky bacon' has to do with Ruby. The growing list of deadtree books is here.
No, my musings on this subject is a reaction to Sun's open sourcing Java and Bjarne Stroustrup's laments on the difficulties of learning, and attracting programmers to, C++ expressed in the article The Problem With C++. Since implementable software must be done in some language, the selection of the language you choose is vitally important. That's why I encourage you programmers to learn Ruby now, for it is about to be a major force in FOSS.
Ruby has already proven itself in web applications by being the foundation for the Rails web framework. As Ruby now hits puberty, it's just beginning to experience a significant growth spurt that will propel it into adolescence. At version 1.8.5 (stable) and 1.9 (beta) it should hit 2.0 by the end of 2007. When that occurs, YARV, a bytecode virtual machine, will have improved Ruby's only major impediment to wider use, its relatively slower machine performance from being purely interpreted.
Other synergistic developments will also accelerate Ruby's appeal. The JRuby (Ruby in Java) project should benefit from the open sourcing of Java, and entice more of its users away from the "dark side." More new projects are appearing nearly weekly on rubyforge while existing ones are growing and maturing, illustrating a robust and creative user base.
Amarok already uses Ruby, but Ruby will really have arrived when a major project, like say OpenOffice, now a 120 MB download for Linux, is significantly rewritten in idiomatic Ruby code (not just a literal translation), and becomes 60-70% smaller, and faster, while also becoming easier to understand, modify, document, and maintain.
The future portends exciting developments for Ruby. If your distro doesn't come with it, download it now and start playing with it. I guarantee it will have you smiling, for it is truly a joy to use, a true gem of FOSS.


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By Dave Lounsbury, The Open Group
The space around us is forever changing.
As I write now, the planet's molten core is in motion far beneath my feet, and way above my head, our atmosphere and the universe are in constant flux too.
Man also makes his own changes as well. Innovation in technology and business constantly create new ways to work together and create economic value.
Over the past few years, we have witnessed the birth, evolution and use of a number of such changes, each of which has the potential to fundamentally change the way we engage with one another. These include: Mobile, Social (both Social Networks and Social Enterprise), Big Data, the Internet of Things, Cloud Computing as well as devices and application architectures.
Now however, these once disparate forces are converging – united by the growing Consumerization of Technology and the resulting evolution in user behavior – to create new business models and system designs.
You can see evidence of this convergence of trends in the following key architectural shifts:
- Exponential growth of data inside and outside organizations converging with end point usage in mobile devices, analytics, embedded technology and Cloud hosted environments
- Speed of technology and business innovation is rapidly changing the focus from asset ownership to the usage of services, and the predication of more agile architecture models to be able to adapt to new technology change and offerings
- New value networks resulting from the interaction and growth of the Internet of Things and multi-devices and connectivity targeting specific vertical industry sector needs
- Performance and security implications involving cross technology platforms , cache and bandwidth strategies, existing across federated environments
- Social behavior and market channel changes resulting in multiple ways to search and select IT and business services
- Cross device and user-centric driven service design and mainstream use of online marketplace platforms for a growing range of services
The analyst community was the first to recognize and define this evolution in the technological landscape which we are calling Platform 3.0.
At Gartner's Symposium conference, the keynote touched on the emergence of what it called a 'Nexus of Forces,' and warning that it would soon render existing Business Architectures "obsolete."
However, for those organizations who could get it right, Gartner called the Nexus a "key differentiator of business and technology management" and recommended that "strategizing on how to take advantage of the Nexus should be a top priority for companies around the world."[i]
Similarly, according to IDC Chief Analyst, Frank Gens, "Vendors' ability (or inability) to compete on the 3rd Platform [Platform 3.0] right now — even at the risk of cannibalizing their own 2nd Platform franchises — will reorder leadership ranks within the IT market and, ultimately, every industry that uses IT."[ii]
Of course, while organizations will be looking to make use of Platform 3.0 to create innovative new products and services, this will not be an easy transition for many. Significantly, there will be architectural issues and structural considerations to consider when using and combining these convergent technologies which will need to be overcome. Accomplishing this will in turn require cooperation among suppliers and users of these products and services.
That is why we're excited to announce the formation of a new – as yet unnamed – forum, specifically designed to advance The Open Group vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™ by helping enterprises to take advantage of these convergent technologies. This will be accomplished by identifying a set of new platform capabilities, and architecting and standardizing an IT platform by which enterprises can reap the business benefits of Platform 3.0. It is our intention that these capabilities will enable enterprises to:
- Process data "in the Cloud"
- Integrate mobile devices with enterprise computing
- Incorporate new sources of data, including social media and sensors in the Internet of Things
- Manage and share data that has high volume, velocity, variety and distribution
- Turn the data into usable information through correlation, fusion, analysis and visualization
The forum will bring together a community of industry experts and thought leaders whose purpose it will be to meet these goals, initiate and manage programs to support them, and promote the results. Owing to the nature of the forum it is expected that this forum will also leverage work underway in this area by The Open Group's existing Cloud Work Group, and would coordinate with other forums for specific overlapping or cross-cutting activities.
Looking ahead, the first deliverables will analyze the use of Cloud, Social, Mobile Computing and Big Data, and describe the business benefits that enterprises can gain from them. The forum will then proceed to describe the new IT platform in the light of this analysis.
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uhci* at pci? dev ? function ? ohci* at pci? dev ? function ? usb* at uhci? flags 0x00 usb* at ohci? flags 0x00 uhub* at usb? uhub* at uhub? port ? configuration ? interface ? vendor ? #include <dev/usb/usb.h> #include <dev/usb/usbhid.h>
OpenBSD provides machine-independent bus support and drivers for Univer- sal Serial Bus (USB) devices. The OpenBSD usb driver has three layers (like scsi(4) and pcmcia(4)): the controller, the bus, and the device layer. The controller attaches to a physical bus (like pci(4)). The USB bus attaches to the controller and the root hub attaches to the controller. Further devices, which may in- clude further hubs, attach to other hubs. The attachment forms the same tree structure as the physical USB device tree. For each USB device there may be additional drivers attached to it. The uhub device controls USB hubs and must always be present since there is at least one root hub in any USB system. The flags are used to specify if the devices on the USB bus should be probed early in the boot process. If the flags are specified with a value of 1, the USB bus will be probed when the USB host device is attached in- stead of waiting until kernel processes start running. This is useful for USB console keyboards so that the keyboard is attached before getting the root prompt on "boot -a".
OpenBSD includes machine-independent USB drivers, sorted by device type and driver name:
umass(4) USB Mass Storage Devices, e.g., external disk drives.
aue(4) ADMtek AN986 / ADM8511 Pegasus family USB Ethernet interfaces. axe(4) ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet interfaces. cue(4) CATC USB-EL1201A-based Ethernet interfaces. kue(4) Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B-based Ethernet interfaces. url(4) Realtek RTL8150L-based Ethernet interfaces. wi(4) WaveLAN/IEEE, PRISM 2-3 and Spectrum24 802.11DS wireless network interfaces.
ubsa(4) Belkin serial adapters. ucom(4) Serial port-like devices. uftdi(4) FTDI FT8U100AX-based serial adapters. ulpt(4) USB Printers. umct(4) MCT USB-RS232 serial adapters. umodem(4) USB Modems. uplcom(4) Prolific PL-2303 serial adapters. uvscom(4) SUNTAC Slipper U VS-10U serial adapters.
uaudio(4) Audio devices. umidi(4) USB MIDI devices. urio(4) Diamond Multimedia Rio MP3 players.
udsbr(4) D-Link DSB-R100 USB radio.
uhid(4) Generic driver for Human Interface Devices. uhidev(4) Base driver for all Human Interface Devices. ukbd(4) USB keyboards that follow the boot protocol. ums(4) USB mouse devices.
ugen(4) Generic driver for unknown USB devices. upl(4) Prolific based host-to-host adapters. uscanner(4) USB scanners. usscanner(4) SCSI-over-USB scanners. uvisor(4) Handspring Visor. uyap(4) YAP phone firmware loader.
The USB is a 12 Mb/s serial bus (1.5 Mb/s for low speed devices). Each USB has a host controller that is the master of the bus; all other dev- ices on the bus only speak when spoken to. There can be up to 127 devices (apart from the host controller) on a bus, each with its own address. The addresses are assigned dynamically by the host when each device is attached to the bus. Within each device there can be up to 16 endpoints. Each endpoint is in- dividually addressed and the addresses are static. Each of these end- points will communicate in one of four different modes: control, isochro- nous, bulk, or interrupt. A device always has at least one endpoint. This is a control endpoint at address 0 and is used to give commands to the device and extract basic data, such as descriptors, from the device. Each endpoint, except the control endpoint, is unidirectional. The endpoints in a device are grouped into interfaces. An interface is a logical unit within a device; e.g., a compound device with both a key- board and a trackball would present one interface for each. An interface can sometimes be set into different modes, called alternate settings, which affects how it operates. Different alternate settings can have dif- ferent endpoints within it. A device may operate in different configurations. Depending on the confi- guration the device may present different sets of endpoints and inter- faces. Each device located on a hub has several config(8) locators: port Number of the port on closest upstream hub. configuration Configuration the device must be in for this driver to at- tach. This locator does not set the configuration; it is iterated by the bus enumeration. interface Interface number within a device that an interface driver attaches to. vendor 16-bit vendor ID of the device. product 16-bit product ID of the device. release 16-bit release (revision) number of the device. The first locator can be used to pin down a particular device according to its physical position in the device tree. The last three locators can be used to pin down a particular device according to what device it actu- ally is. The bus enumeration of the USB bus proceeds in several steps: 1. Any device-specific driver can attach to the device. 2. If none is found, any device class specific driver can attach. 3. If none is found, all configurations are iterated over. For each configuration all the interfaces are iterated over and interface drivers can attach. If any interface driver attached in a certain configuration, the iteration over configurations is stopped. 4. If still no drivers have been found, the generic USB driver can at- tach.
Use the following to get access to the USB specific structures and de- fines. #include <dev/usb/usb.h> The /dev/usbN device can be opened and a few operations can be performed on it. The poll(2) system call will say that I/O is possible on the con- troller device when a USB device has been connected or disconnected to the bus. The following ioctl(2) commands are supported on the controller device: USB_DEVICEINFO struct usb_device_info This command can be used to retrieve some information about a device on the bus. The addr field should be filled before the call and the other fields will be filled by information about the device on that address. Should no such device exist an error is reported. struct usb_device_info { uByte addr; /* device address */ char product[USB_MAX_STRING_LEN]; char vendor[USB_MAX_STRING_LEN]; char release[8]; uByte class; uByte config; uByte lowspeed; int power; int nports; uByte ports[16]; #define USB_PORT_ENABLED 0xff #define USB_PORT_SUSPENDED 0xfe #define USB_PORT_POWERED 0xfd #define USB_PORT_DISABLED 0xfc }; The product, vendor, and release fields contain self-explanatory descriptions of the device. The class field contains the device class. The config field shows the current configuration of the device. The lowspeed field is set if the device is a USB low speed dev- ice. The power field shows the power consumption in milli-amps drawn at 5 volts, or zero if the device is self powered. If the device is a hub the nports field is non-zero and the ports field contains the addresses of the connected devices. If no dev- ice is connected to a port one of the USB_PORT_* values indicates its status. USB_DEVICESTATS struct usb_device_stats This command retrieves statistics about the controller. struct usb_device_stats { u_long requests[4]; }; The requests field is indexed by the transfer kind, i.e. UE_*, and indicates how many transfers of each kind that has been com- pleted by the controller. USB_REQUEST struct usb_ctl_request This command can be used to execute arbitrary requests on the control pipe. This is DANGEROUS and should be used with great care since it can destroy the bus integrity. The include file <dev/usb/usb.h> contains definitions for the types used by the various ioctl(2) calls. The naming convention of the fields for the various USB descriptors exactly follows the naming in the USB specif- ication. Byte sized fields can be accessed directly, but word (16-bit) sized fields must be accessed by the UGETW(field) and USETW(field, value) macros to handle byte order and alignment properly. The include file <dev/usb/usbhid.h> similarly contains the definitions for Human Interface Devices (HID).
aue(4), axe(4), cardbus(4), cue(4), intro(4), isa(4), isapnp(4), kue(4), pci(4), pcmcia(4), uaudio(4), ubsa(4), ucom(4), udsbr(4), uftdi(4), ugen(4), uhid(4), uhidev(4), uhub(4), ukbd(4), ulpt(4), umass(4), umct(4), umidi(4), umodem(4), ums(4), upl(4), uplcom(4), urio(4), url(4), uscanner(4), usscanner(4), uvisor(4), uvscom(4), uyap(4), wi(4), usbdevs(8), usbhidaction(8), usbhidctl(8) The USB specifications can be found at: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/
The usb driver appeared in OpenBSD 2.6.
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[/caption]Those that dare to wade into the more advanced waters of eBook reading will need a quick primer on their device's capabilities. The iPad's native reader, iBooks, currently only supports the open ePub format, although support for PDFs is promised in a forthcoming version showcased at WWDC alongside iOS4. It's important to note that eBooks downloaded from any of the aforementioned stores (Amazon, B&N, and iBooks) may come in the ePub format, but each is locked down with its own proprietary digital rights management system, making files from one online bookstore unreadable in another company's reader.
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