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SELECTED INDUSTRY BLOGS Having kids is clearly impacting my assessment of applications… And there is no greater proof for this than a new product by IncrediMail called PhotoJoy, an application I would never have given a second thought were I not a father of two.
PhotoJoy is a free downloadable application that uses your photos to produce neat desktop widgets, 3D photo screensavers and wallpaper collages. You can either use photos located on your computer, or ones uploaded to your Flickr account. PhotoJoy can also use Nov. 23, 2008 11:34 AM | The Water Snake Attacks! Nov. 22, 2008 06:00 PM | An article in PC Gamer is titled: “Birth of a Nation: Does Eve Online’s Budding Democracy Represent the First Virtual Sovereign State?” Well, no, because the Council of Stellar Management that as elected by gamers does not have any real authority. Nevertheless, it’s a fascinating case of governance…and hard to generalize from. That is, it’s a great example, but I’m not sure of what. Nov. 22, 2008 04:19 PM | BTW, while I'm mentioning flames, of all the comments I got, publicly and privately on my bit about FreshAir, the vast majority didn't respond to the substance of my piece, proving once again that the Internet has no subtlety. You're either for me or against me, seems to be the attitude of most commenters. Well, I could be for you in some ways and not for you in others. I thought Gross did a competent, even admirable interview. I just thought it was gutless to do it with Ayers who had already be Nov. 22, 2008 02:23 PM | Unless you've been in a cave for the last few months, you'll know that Apple's iPhone Platform is one of the most exciting Mobile Platforms for the last few years, not only for consumers but now for business. Nov. 22, 2008 01:49 PM | A recent article on CNN about the sales success of the iPhone game Trism spurred me to write about how addicted I am to that game. Shortly after the App Store launched, I looked for something fun to play. I originally thought I’d go with the classic Bejeweled, but reading the reviews, everyone loved Trism. What convinced me to buy it is that it was a puzzle game that incorporated the accelerometer, so it became kind of multidimensional. The mechanic is not only clever — it enhances g Nov. 22, 2008 01:17 PM | The “season to be jolly” is coming up fast, which given the world news might be more of a challenge this year. Therefore I quote the following, found accidentally while researching for a blog post the other day, and attributed to the late Spike Milligan:
Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps, “My friend is dead! Wha Nov. 21, 2008 11:41 AM | About 40 attendees at the very first meeting is really a good start. And the discussions, both at the end of my speech and at the restaurant, were pretty pretty interesting. Technorati Tags: JUG Lugano... Nov. 21, 2008 05:25 AM | FORTRAN was a programming language for crunching numbers. It provided limited textual support, primarily for the labeling of output. It did this with Hollerith constants. Hollerith constants were named for Herman Hollerith, who adapted the punched card for data processing. To make a Hollerith constant, enter the number of characters, then the letter H, and then the characters. 13HHELLO, WORLD! ALGOL 60 had better textual support, adding a structure called a string which was a s Nov. 20, 2008 12:24 PM |
Stack Overflow Podcast episode 30 is up, with special guest Richard White of UserVoice.
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Nov. 20, 2008 11:53 AM | Mike Vizard at eWeek recently hosted a podcast with ITKO???s John Michelsen, on "Application Development in the Clouds." In this conversation, John and Mike talk about how cloud computing is going to upend the way IT organizations think about SOA and application development in general.
Mike started by mentioning the increased number of dependencies that SaaS brings to SOA testing. John said Mike really nailed the problem - it is something we are seeing in every engagement that relies on third p Nov. 20, 2008 11:37 AM | MAX, as a big brother hosts a number of small unconferences, which are located in the well equipped half-open spaces in the hallway. They have AV, comfy coaches, and are less formal gatherings of the developers. At 8:30AM I was sitting at 360MAX unco Nov. 20, 2008 10:00 AM | Mr. Zucker's relationship with Mr. Weinstein is also the subject of commentary in the court papers. At a meeting in January 2007 between the two, Mr. Weinstein told Mr. Zucker: "You can only have in your life five true friends, and I consider you one of my five friends. And I'm telling you, I will not embarrass you."
When the Weinstein Company filed its reply to the lawsuit last month, it claimed that Mr. Weinstein told Mr. Zucker that a person "has about 15 friends in the business world" and t Nov. 20, 2008 06:51 AM | 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 | 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 | ** 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 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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.
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There is no VMWare certification following this course. | | By Jeremy Geelan William Louth wrote: You forgot JINSPIRED which has delivered the first feature rich and scalable activity-based costing (ABC) solution for enterprise applications that dynamically assigns costs to applications, services and components based on multi-resource consumption, delivering a unified approach to performance man... | | By Maureen O'Gara Mike DiPetrillo wrote: Just an FYI...The numbers IDC is posting don't match what Gartner is seeing. There are some problems with IDCs numbers. More details here: http://www.mikedipetrillo.com/mikedvirtualization/2008/10/gartner-market.... | | By Stephen E. Arnold Jeremy Geelan wrote: Even though Google's maybe the elephant in the cloud, there are at least 49 others competing already in the cloud computing space including not just Amazon and Microsoft but also Akamai, Force.com, IBM, Sun, VMware and a host of others. I had a first shot at a Top Fifty list here: ... | | By Denny Lane Mike DiPetrillo wrote: Fault tolerant servers are nice and some applications do warrant that. However, the VAST majority of applications running in a x86 environment can tolerate being down for 2 minutes which is as long as it takes for HA services built into most virtualization offerings to reboot the VM on another syste... |
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