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SELECTED INDUSTRY BLOGS What if Babbage’s Difference Engine spawned a “laptop”?
It’s hard to find more desirable and satisfying (in a tactile sort of way) mechanical fetish item from the age of early computing…
For years Curta calculators enjoyed a cult status among collectors, and as recently as in 2003 they were featured in William Gibson’s “Pattern Recognition” book. However, [...] Sep. 7, 2008 05:30 PM | Remember the BearHugCamp idea? Well... it seems like it's happening! Next Friday, Sept 12, in San Francisco. Steve Gillmor is the master of ceremonies, agent provacateur and visionary. Me, I bring a few used analogies and metaphors and experience with various gadgets and utilities that build on Twitter and FriendFeed and Identi.ca, et al.
Where? I think it'll be at CNET's offices in SF on 2nd St. I'll leave the logistics up to Steve. I've blocked out the whole day.
Who? Well, that's where it get Sep. 7, 2008 01:13 PM |
Nikon just released the D90. This is the first digital SLR that can shoot movies (as far as I know, anyway)--now you don't have to carry a digital SLR and a video camera. How cool is that?! My buddies at Ritz Camera and the 6sight Future of Imaging conference made this possible. Click here to buy one from Ritz Camera. Incidentally, I'll be the first to admit that these aren't the greatest shots--I had no idea product shots are so much harder than people shots.
Sep. 7, 2008 01:01 PM | Making sure any information is removed from a phone is becoming more and more difficult. To do this on a Nokia E90 do the following: (i) Go to 'Settings' > "Factory Settings" - "Restore Factory Settings" - Enter code "12345"(ii) The above will get rid of all data but strangely often leaves calendar or message data on the phone - to get rid of that, use the 3 finger reset which is, while the phone is off, hold the (*)the(3)and the ( Sep. 7, 2008 12:19 PM | ChaCha used to be a ridiculous human powered web based search engine that’s best use appeared to be for killing time when bored.
They raised a boatload of money from Jeff Bezos and others and eventually switched to an all-mobile interface. They also began offering their platform to third party marketers.
But now there are indications that the company is having cash flow issues, even after a recent pay cut to guides. As before, the information is coming from their poorly-paid and poorly-tr Sep. 7, 2008 06:29 AM | Paul McDougall at InformationWeek explains what’s wrong with Microsoft’s $300M Seinfeld reruns.
[Tags: marketing cluetrain microsoft seinfeld advertising ] Sep. 7, 2008 02:19 AM |
This week's StackOverflow Podcast is up: episode 20.
We talked about the deadlock that was fixed, which was the last thing holding up the public beta... caused by a very small bug in third party libraries, which is exactly why I've always had a bias against using third party libraries. I tell an interesting story about why the Excel team had their own compiler. And I explain to a listener why Jeff never listens to me.
Thanks to everyone who came to the Business of Software conference and ma Sep. 5, 2008 06:47 PM | I just stumbled on the Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld commercial (at "Shoe Circus" of all places!) and it's a real Sep. 5, 2008 04:51 PM | Are you a flex developer? Send me your resume. We need Freelancers and Full Timers. Preferably in the ChicagoLand area, but will consider remote developers for the right candidates. We have needs on several projects, so if you are a flex dev Sep. 5, 2008 12:24 PM | The Really, Really Odd Couple - Gates and Seinfeld - debuted last night and you can find the video online everywhere. In this post are my thoughts on the advertisement. Sep. 5, 2008 06:40 AM | I spent the afternoon playing around with Google Gears in order to get a basic feel for how it works. Specifically, I wanted to see how much work it would take to add support for offline viewing for tostring.org (an online book site).
I used the Gears LocalServer API which “allows a web application to cache and serve its HTTP resources locally, without a network connection”. The implementation can be though of as a small web server that intercepts requests for remote resources and se Sep. 5, 2008 03:41 AM | Among the challenging decisions new parents must make is the name of their child. It’s a lifetime commitment, and not something to be taken lightly.
We very quickly settled on his middle name, Joseph. It’s my dad and brothers’ middle name, and Stacy’s grandfather’s first name and brother’s middle name. So, a family name on both sides. Done.
The first name was trickier. Early on I proposed David, my middle name. I’ve always liked the name David (and when Sep. 4, 2008 08:28 PM | Per a recent press release, TIBCO has completed its acquisition of Insightful, known for its S+ statistics language (and with a common ancestry with the open source R langage) as used, amongst others, in the financial industry. S+ and R have had a few mentions in recent CEP blogs:
Marc Adler commented on the initial TIBCO Insightful announcement [*1], and the potential for S+ queries in CEP (which is probably true at some level)
Hans Gilde commented on improvements to R and responded to Mar Sep. 4, 2008 07:56 PM | It's easy to mistake what's interesting for what's important. Sep. 4, 2008 04:06 PM | jrawio is an ImageI/O plugin for "camera raw" image formats. I've started writing it a few years ago for my Nikon D100, and later extended it for working with a larger number of formats. As far as I know, it... Sep. 4, 2008 11:27 AM | I have started a new series of interviews with users of technologies for storing and handling persistent objects, around the globe.6 additional user reports (12-17/08) have been published, from the following users: • Ajay Deshpande, Persistent • Horst Braeuner, City of Schwaebisch Hall • Tore Risch, Uppsala University • Michael Blaha, OMT Associates • Stefan Keller, HSR Rapperswil • Mohammed Zaki, Renssela Sep. 4, 2008 08:03 AM | I like it - it's simple and minimalistic, has a small memory footprint and is easy on the CPU. Flash player works fine on my Windows XP box. I'm sure, Mac and Linux version will be available soon too. The absence of the I like the fact that t Sep. 3, 2008 11:12 AM | “This is the best browser so far” is that I can say after being a Chrome user for one day.
First of all, I was glad to find out that I haven’t found Chrome breaking any web application yet, especially Ajax applications. I was a little concerned about this, given that the Chrome cartoons say “Javascript runs in its own thread”, which is different from the threading model today.
For example, Razor Profiler is a fairly Javascript-heavy web application that I wrote Sep. 3, 2008 09:02 AM | Few days thinking about the best way to copy values between the objects representation of SOAP message elements and JPA entities. I couldn't find a good answer, so I am sharing the question. Sep. 3, 2008 05:57 AM | I had a chance to look at Forrester analyst Randy Heffner’s report on the best way to build SOA (via Joe McKendrick’s Forrester's Five-Step Path to Building SOA). Joe provided a link to the complete report, How to Build Your SOA Platform on ebizQ. Randy writes in the summary, “Building an effective service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform requires cohesive integration of both new product categories, such as SOA repositories and enterprise service buses (ESBs), and existing produ Sep. 3, 2008 01:28 AM | A big thank you to all the people who read my Blog for now over a half a million visits ... Sep. 3, 2008 01:00 AM | Google Chrome, a new open-source browser from Google that builds in parts on Apple's WebKit and in parts on Mozilla Firefox, was announced yesterday and just launched today at 3:02 pm EDT. Here is an interesting twist: most of the technical details about Chrome cannot be found in blog postings or technical web documentation, but rather in the form of a comic book. Talk about weird! But the comic is actually full of very interesting details - definitely worth reading, especially if you are a we Sep. 2, 2008 03:27 PM | In September I’m heading to Germany to present to the German PowerBuilder user group. I’m also working on arrangements to go back over to Europe in November for other locations as well, including (hopefully), England and Switzerland. If Aug. 29, 2008 05:17 PM | In past 'Mashups in Action' blog we have described mashups used in intelligence analysis, medical research, and most recently a dual-purpose community-building/data-sharing effort for a scientific community. So mashups can help make better spies, better doctors and better scientists. But other than the occasional flu shot, I don't expect most of us have much exposure to these professions.Today's Mashup In Action story is about trading, a profession you have better odds of encountering in yo Aug. 28, 2008 02:56 PM |
As of this week you can download an early release draft document containing 11 design documents we've been working on for the past year or so as the result of the OSGi enterprise initiative.
This is important because according to OSGi Alliance rules, only members are allowed access to working drafts of documents. This is the first time we've released any of these drafts publicly. As a board member and EEG co-chair, I'm very pleased to see this happen because (a) I often get asked about what's Aug. 26, 2008 06:20 PM |
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YOUR FEEDBACK  | By Maureen O'Gara Tim FitzGerald wrote: As an HP distributor who specializes in virtualization solutions, we view these announcements as an important enhancement to HP's virtualization solution ecosystem. These solutions plus Avnet VirtualPath enablement programs (like VirtualPath University) are a great combination for VAR's developing... | | By Virtualization News Desk Tim FitzGerald wrote: Akorri is a company with a very compelling value proposition. BalancePoint provides a Virtualization solution VAR the opportunity to provide a solution that better enables their trusted advisor status with customers in storage solutions. | | By Maureen O'Gara Bruce Arnold wrote: Kudos to the Cloud Crowd for Re-Inventing the Wheel!
One thing 30 years in the IT industry has taught me is that the more things
change, the more they stay the same. Another is that the only memory we
seem to access is short-term. A third is that techno-marketeers rely on
that, so they can p... | | By Trevor Doerksen Bill Sorenson wrote: We actually do exactly what you're looking for today, and have been doing it for the last 8 years. Whether it's one application, all your applications, or the complete company, companies like IVDesk have been hosting applications that are being accessed via the Internet via Citrix and RDP.
Not... | | By Reuven Cohen Bruce Arnold wrote: Kudos to the Cloud Crowd for Re-Inventing the Wheel!
One thing 30 years in the IT industry has taught me is that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Another is that the only memory we seem to access is short-term. A third is that techno-marketeers rely on that, so they can put... |
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TODAY'S TOP SOA LINKS YOU MUST CLICK ON ! BREAKING NEWS FROM THE WIRES DataCore Software, the
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