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It’s hard to believe that nearly a year has gone by since we gave out those crazy gorilla awards to the best startup and product successes in Silicon Valley and around the world. Some of the photos from last year are here. The Crunchies are back. We are once again partnering with some of our favorite blogs - thank you to co-hosts GigaOm, Silicon Alley Insider and VentureBeat (click the links for their announcements). Thanks as well to 1938 Media, our video production partner (see their fir

Nov. 19, 2008 11:59 PM

Monty Python Channel Debuts on YouTube

Nov. 19, 2008 10:00 PM

Electoral Windex

WhoVoted.net tells you who voted, based on public election records. So far it’s only ratting out those dirty stinking voters in four states (Florida, Idaho, Ohio, and Washington). Who voted and who contributed money to campaigns has always been public info in the US. But when you had to blow dust off of ledger pages in the basement of your town hall, we didn’t feel quite so exposed. Welcome to the fishbowl! [Tags: democracy elections transparency ]

Nov. 19, 2008 04:14 PM

The Art of Laying People Off

Over at the American Express OPEN Forum, I posted an article explaining “The Art of Laying People Off.” Actually, I hope you don’t have to read it.

Nov. 19, 2008 02:02 PM

Ruby on Rails Bible Now on Twitter

For those who Twitter, the Ruby on Rails Bible book now has a Twitter feed of its own. You can follow Ruby on Rails Bible for content updates and corrections, new content, discussion about the book and its contents, and Rails knowledge sharing. You

Nov. 19, 2008 12:17 PM

Foundation Classes - PocketBuilder

** Hot News ** Software Tool & Die (my company) is pleased to announce that they have released an update to their STD Foundation Classes for PocketBuilder (PK). This latest release coincides and complements the lat

Nov. 19, 2008 11:49 AM

SY 4 x Mobile Star Awards 2008

Sybase Unwired Enterprise Solutions Win Four 2008 Mobile Star Awards.

Nov. 19, 2008 11:32 AM

Journalists who report the news

This is what I was talking about yesterday. "They should put their reporters in Detroit, Columbus, Indianapolis, where ever there are elements of the auto industry, and explain what will happen to these Americans when GM, Ford and Chrysler shut down, even if it's just for a few months. Really show us what the decision is. For once, scare us with the truth, instead of telling the usual bedtime story. That would be the honorable journalistic thing to do, but of course they're not doing it." Well,

Nov. 19, 2008 07:13 AM

Anecdotes

Michiko Kakutani reviews Malcolm Gladwell's latest book in the New York Times: “Much of what Mr. Gladwell has to say about superstars is little more than common sense: that talent alone is not enough to ensure success, that opportunity, hard work, timing and luck play important roles as well. The problem is that he then tries to extrapolate these observations into broader hypotheses about success. These hypotheses not only rely heavily on suggestion and innuendo, but they also pivot dece

Nov. 18, 2008 10:08 PM

Adobe MAX. Blog #4. Day 1.

On the MAX eve, I went to speaker’s reception. First of all had to meet with three other panelists participated in Monday’s session Flex architecture face off - Chafiq Kazoun, Todd Anderson , Joshua Noble are very experienced softwa

Nov. 18, 2008 07:04 PM

OSGi for the Enterprise Gets a Bit Closer & LinkedIn Too

Last week at IBM Montpellier the upcoming OSGi 4.2 release got a bit closer, and Yan Pujante presented LinkedIn's requirements. Peter can't believe what Yan is saying... ! In the now usual pattern for a two-day expert group face to face, the first day was given to the core platform expert group (CPEG) and the second day to the enterprise expert group (EEG). Neither can the rest of us...! The work to produce the enterprise edition of the OSGi specifications is roughly divided between th

Nov. 18, 2008 05:25 PM

Updated ActionScript 3 RIA API Guide

We have just posted an updated PDF of the Flash Platform ActionScript 3 RIA API Guide. The new guide includes updated apis for Adobe AIR 1.5, Flex 3.2 and Flash Player 10. You can find more information on the guide, as well as download the PDF from the developer center. You can view some images of the previous guide here. We also have printed versions of the guide. If you are MAX, you can find one in your goodie bag. If you are not at max, I will be sending some guides and new eboy sticker shee

Nov. 18, 2008 02:44 PM

SOA in Action Virtual Conference Preview - Panel tomorrow

I recently had a chance to talk with Peter Schoof at eBizQ about the upcoming SOA in Action Virtual Conference (free signup here) on November 19. You can listen to our discussion and/or read the transcript at this post, The Acceleration of SOA: iTKO Explains. I mentioned here we had a very productive SOA governance conference last month with John Michelsen sitting on that panel ??? see SOA Governance Panel Recap: Federated SOA for the Day. We had a lot of good questions as a result but they're

Nov. 18, 2008 12:19 PM

Pat Paulsen for President

The Smothers Brothers was a comedy act that came out of the folk music revival in the 60s. They had a successful variety show on CBS. The network occasionally censored the show, which radicalized Tom Smothers. When you tell a comedian he can't do something, it is likely that you will motivate him to do it more. Eventually, the show became so combative with the network and the establishment that CBS yanked the show mid season. In retrospect, that stuff looks pretty tame, so

Nov. 17, 2008 08:29 PM

The Value of (Production) Rules …

Some people seem to be quite surprised to find that TIBCO BusinessEvents, classed as a Complex Event Processing product, includes a “rule engine”. Especially those that look at the CEP tools market and just see the stream-based CEP products doing continuous queries. Nonethless, there are good reasons why a production rule engine is ideal not just for business decisions, but also event filtering and correlation. First, lets classify “rules” and “production rules̶

Nov. 17, 2008 03:54 PM

HTML 5 Web Sockets article on IndicThread

HTML 5 Websockets and the K team's open source project Kaazing Gateway reaches India and the India developer community. Sidda Eraiah will be presenting 2 sessions @ IndicThreads Conference 2008, Pune, India: How to build an enterprise trading solution using HTML 5’s WebSockets The Future of the Web: HTML 5, WebSocket, Java and Comet Sidda has also written a very nice article for IndicThread on Comet, Websockets, and Server-sent Events. The article provides a 4 step mini-howto on WebSoc

Nov. 17, 2008 03:20 PM

Thinking about Theory (Warning: Interaction Design Nerdery Ahead)

In conversations and on mailing lists addressing the design of interactive media, I’ve found myself growing uneasy with just how little understanding most people practicing in the field have of how they are influenced by the various theories that undergird are standard practice. I think it can be problematic that so people are working in the context of these theories don’t understand how the theories’ assumptions are coloring their approaches. What do I mean by theory? Theory i

Nov. 16, 2008 11:34 PM

iSync Plug-In for Nokia 5310

I bought my wife a Nokia 5310 MusicExpress phone recently. She had used the 6210i for a long time and wanted something that had the same ease of use but that was slim, had a radio, and allowed her to play music. The 5310 was ideal. My wife has a Mac and as per normal the phone was not supported on iSync, the built-in Mac device syncing service. You can add the 5310 to isync by downloading a package to provide the device with isync here

Nov. 16, 2008 02:35 PM

The OMG is hosting an Object Database Standard Definition Scope meeting in Santa Clara

I have received a note from Mike Card that I would like to share with you. Please note that the registration link sent by Mike (see below) is not yet active...."The OMG is hosting an Object Database Standard Definition Scope meeting in Santa Clara, CA at the Hyatt Regency on Tuesday afternoon, December 9th. The purpose of this meeting will be to define what the scope of the new object database standard should be.We have already done some work in this area but more remains to be done. Our goal is

Nov. 15, 2008 10:15 AM

HTTPS/SSL Tunneling and Proxy Server

HTTPS Tunneling, also called HTTPS Proxy, SSL proxy, or SSL tunneling, refers to sending HTTPS content via a proxy server. This is a very common usage scenario over the web. Unfortunately, I have not found any Java server that supports this yet. Tomcat chokes up quickly if you tunnel HTTPS messages. Other Java servers don’t even come close. Jetty is the furthest and closest to supporting it. Greg Wilkins even wrote two examples showing Jetty’s proxy support (ProxyServlet and Asy

Nov. 15, 2008 12:29 AM

Get Your Own gTLD… for only $185,000

ICANN has opened up the process for gTLD. I’m certain that we’ll now finally see .mac and .msn. The application process looks grueling, and the application fee is expected to be a relatively staggerring $185,000, so don’t expect to see .dojo, .sitepen, or .dylan any time soon. That said, if someone wants to set up .lan, I’ll be first in line to pay for dy! For now, I’ll stick with dylan.io.

Nov. 14, 2008 01:57 PM

Mashups : New and Agile way to Integrate

I came across this interesting post: How Mashups Could Eliminate Integration Projects by Loraine Lawson. In a related post, she refers to John Crupi's article Enterprise Mashups Part I: Bringing SOA to the People which I would recommend to readers who want to understand JackBe's take on defining mashups. Anyway, Loraine's post led me to Ron Schmelzer's ZapFlash. Here are some excerpts of Ron's article that caught my eye, with my take on them.Excerpt from ZapFlash:A year or two ago, assuming tha

Nov. 13, 2008 06:52 PM

Top Ten Software Engineering Concepts, v10

I’m giving a presentation on “Top 10 Software Engineering Concepts” at a CompAid “Software Best Practices” conference in Chicago on November 13th. I hope you’ll be there in person to hear all the nuances; but if you’re stuck in some other part of the world, you’re welcome to download the (10 megabyte) PDF version of the presentation, which has a whole bunch of embedded links to other presentations, publications, books, articles, Websites, etc.

Nov. 13, 2008 06:31 AM

Enerjy.com Downtime

We’re going to be moving the enerjy.com site, including the Software Integrity blog, to a new server over the next couple of weeks. So if the site is unavailable for a while, we haven’t gone anywhere, we’re just moving things around. Email should not be affected by the change and you can always reach us at contactus@enerjy.com for support or other questions.

Nov. 12, 2008 11:42 AM

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Nov. 12, 2008 08:30 AM

Complex Event Processing (CEP) Blog

The Value of (Production) Rules …

Posted: Nov. 17, 2008 03:54 PM

CEP as sauce for alphabet soup (Part 10): EC2 and Cloud Computing

An industry colleague mentioned to me over the Summer that they had attended a “Cloud Computing” talk where it was mentioned that cloud computing would overtake Complex Event Processing. I didn’t get a good response as to what ̶

Posted: Nov. 14, 2008 11:11 AM

RuleML 2008: Keynotes published…

Although we contributed one session (on PRR and decisions) to the RuleML conference co-hosted with BR Forum this year, I missed some of the other but nontheless significant talks. I see the keynotes are now officially published, so below are some rev

Posted: Nov. 13, 2008 10:20 AM

BPM TT EU 08: Governance and business motivation

The 2nd day of the BPM ThinkTank Europe event included a round table session on “process governance”. I am not as familiar as I should be with TIBCO BPM’s governance provisions, but on the Complex Event Processing / Event-Driven Dec

Posted: Nov. 13, 2008 08:20 AM

TIBCO Syndera Operation Suite 3.3.0 released

Mostly of interest to existing Syndera users: TIBCO has released Syndera 3.3.0, which is now available from the TIBCO download site. This release mostly consists of a “TIBCOization” of the real-time dashboard rather than new functionality

Posted: Nov. 12, 2008 03:42 AM

BPM TT EU 08: setting expectations for BPMN 3.0

This week sees the BPM Think Tank move to Europe, and a chance to observe any differences in BPM expectations and takeup over the previous US event. TIBCO were here to host the round table on “Combining Event Processing with BPMS for Agility

Posted: Nov. 11, 2008 04:53 PM

Change in the air? Ask Paris Hilton

Interesting times here at TIBCO and beyond. In fact, it seems like according to the zeitgeist, it’s one of those tumultuous times where everyone is constantly reminded of pending change. There’s also change of some sort in the political envir

Posted: Oct. 31, 2008 04:29 PM

Business Rules Forum 2008: on the Web, & Emerging Trends

Finishing up BRForum this week were 3 sessions: A panel of worthies discussed questions on “Rules on the Web” in front of a large audience, chaired by John Hall, which turned into a panel on Rule Standards (all the panellists were involv

Posted: Oct. 30, 2008 06:24 PM

RuleML 2008: PRR and rules vs decisions

One of the nice things about Business Rules Forum is that the Rule Markup Conference (RuleML08) is co-located with it. So some of us change rooms today to discuss progress on rule standards, with TIBCO presenting OMG PRR, Ilog presenting W3C RIF, and

Posted: Oct. 30, 2008 11:12 AM

Business Rules Forum 2008: Upper Ontology for Events, Processes, States, Rules

Paul Haley, no doubt somewhat bemused that his old company (still using his name) is now under the Oracle banner, presented his proposal for the development of an upper ontology joining together the concepts of events (and event processing), process,

Posted: Oct. 29, 2008 09:19 PM