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Appalanche: A Snazzy Recommendation Engine For The App Store That Sort Of Works

Apple’s App Store recently hit the 10,000 application mark, and while the store does a pretty good job at turning up impressive new applications through its Top App lists and on banners that scatter the store, most users are only exposed to a tiny fraction of the applications that are available. Now Y Combinator startup AdPinion has leveraged the technology behind its advertising voting engine to create a recommendation service for iPhone apps called Appalanche, hoping to surface the gem

Dec. 4, 2008 07:53 PM

Does Obama Use a Zune?!?

Top 10 cool things listed by GamePro. Look for more lists as the month progresses. I like the steel rubber band gun. Is Obama using a Zune? No way! Look out for Microsoft Blue Edition Software. Its fake! IBM rolls out a virtual Linux desktop for biz. AMD reports sharp drop in sales. Today’s show [...]

Dec. 4, 2008 05:38 PM

PocketBuilder is a nominee for the Developer.com Product of the Year 2009!

The finalists have been chosen. Now is your chance to vote for the technology or product that you think is the best in its category. Voting is now underway and will end on Monday, December 15, 2008.

Dec. 4, 2008 04:52 AM

Stack Overflow Podcast #32

This week Jeff and I talk about software piracy, some performance improvements on the site, dealing with criticism, great programmer’s offices, and more, in Stack Overflow Podcast #32. Not loving your job? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great software jobs, great people.

Dec. 3, 2008 09:04 PM

Creative Commons gov

Change.gov, the transition site, has moved its content to a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. So, anyone can use it so long as they attribute it back to its source. Very cool. Open content is, of course, a creativity magnet. Already, apps have sprung up that let you get Change.gov content on your iPhone and as a widget elsewhere. A government whose first instinct is toward openness! What a difference a mere 69 million votes can make! Next: Putting government under revision control, as T

Dec. 3, 2008 08:31 PM

Some issues with PBTrace

One of the new features added beginning with PowerBuilder 10.2 was the ability to toggle database tracing on and off by setting the PBTrace parameter to either 0 or 1 in the DBParm attribute of the transaction object. Techno-kitten.com referenceOrigi

Dec. 3, 2008 08:17 PM

Bathtime in Clerkenwell

Dec. 3, 2008 05:46 PM

“Mashup” presentation at Rome Enterprise 2.0 conference

I’m presenting a talk on “Mashups as an Enterprise 2.0 Strategy” in Rome on December 4, 2008, as one of several speakers covering a wide variety of topics related to Enterprise 2.0. You can download the 3.1-megabyte PDF file by clicking on the icon below; a couple of the slides will seem rather cryptic and mysterious, but if you’re actually attending the conference, then hopefully my verbal presentation will make everything crystal-clear. While I’ve been here this

Dec. 3, 2008 01:44 PM

10 Reasons to be a PowerBuilder developer!

** 10 reasons you should be a PowerBuilder developer ** 1) PowerBuilder positively impacts your bottom line. Simply put, PowerBuilder is a smart business decision. Many companies have a significant amount of existing PowerBuilder code (in

Dec. 3, 2008 12:29 PM

Have you had any issues with Adobe AIR 1.5?

The title pretty much sums it up. Have you run into any new issues in Adobe AIR 1.5? Specifically, I am looking for anything that may have worked in AIR 1.1, which no longer works in AIR 1.5. For example: SHIFT + SPACE doesn’t work correctly in AIR 1.5, but worked fine in AIR 1.1. (Bug #1932338). Just post the info in the comments (including OS info), and please leave your email address in case the team needs to get in touch with you for more information. Please keep comments on topic.

Dec. 3, 2008 11:55 AM

Deploy OpenBD to the cloud via Elastic Server

With ElasticServer you can now build your own custom server image with OpenBD installed, choosing your own J2EE and database server. Deploy straight to Amazon EC2. Can't get easier.Leave CommentRelated Entries:Is the Aptana Cloud really a cloud?Amazon ex-employee looks to cloud telephony applicationsClouds do blow away - live with itMicrosofts Cloud offering Azure - the bullet points"Clouds" is a place on the earthCloud bootcamp with special guest appearanceAmazon raising the bar again with EC

Dec. 3, 2008 11:51 AM

The 5 Most Common Mashup Mistakes

Mashups are a popular topic lately, in both IT and business circles. Gartner recently named them a ‘Top 10 IT Technology for 2009’. But if your organization is thinking about ‘getting mashy’, here are five common pitfalls that you can avoid with just a little education and forethought:The ‘Fall for the Buzz’ Mistake: Misunderstanding what a ‘mashup’ is. Everyone wants to be associated with the hot buzzword and mashups are hot. Unfortunately, ‘mashup’ is a term that has al

Dec. 3, 2008 09:44 AM

Two Additional Dojo Books

Our English language Dojo book total is now up to at least six, with more books on the way. Peter Svensson has released Learning Dojo, which includes coverage of the new Dojo grid, and numerous DojoX examples. There’s an example chapter on Layout available for free. Leslie Orchard has released the Concise Guide to Dojo. I do not yet know anything about this book, other than knowing that it is on the market and that it weighs in at exactly the same number of pages, 264, as Peter Svensson

Dec. 3, 2008 08:46 AM

How to Use Twitter as a Twool

I may get more value out of Twitter than anyone else on the planet because I use Twitter as a tool—specifically as a marketing tool—for my website Alltop and my book, Reality Check. If the concept of using Twitter in a commercial manner interests you, keep reading. If it doesn’t, then you can continue to send and receive tweets about how cats are rolling over and the line at Starbucks. Forget the “influentials.” You must buy into the theory that products and servic

Dec. 2, 2008 08:57 PM

Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing through Microblogging

You have most likely heard of the microblogging site, Twitter.com. Twitter allows you to create short (160 char limit) frequent posts. Any Twitter user who chooses to “follow” you will see the messages you post. Twitter now has over

Dec. 2, 2008 08:47 PM

Things I Leaned As A Kid (#3 in a series)

A 5 year old Russian girl can beat up an 8 year old American boy. I learned this from a red-hating cold war calisthenics instructor who was trying to motivate a bunch of 8 year old televisionlanders at a YMCA summer day camp at the Dad's Club in Houston, Texas. It is sort of exciting to imagine that WWIII would be settled by hand-to-hand combat with girls. The calisthenics instructor invented that fact in order to support his well-intentioned argument. Was that dishonest? No,

Dec. 2, 2008 02:32 PM

TIBCO BusinessEvents 3.0.1 available for download

TIBCO BusinessEvents 3.0.1 is now shipping. This includes a few niceties for complex event processing needs such as extreme performance and better business control: More platform support: x86 platforms can now use Solaris 10 64′, Windows Server 2008 32′ and 64′, Vista 32′ HP-PA-RISC servers can now use HP-UX-11i Java 6 JVMs Some Decision Manager and Rule Management Server extensions, for example allowing multiple decision tables to be associated with a “decision

Dec. 2, 2008 08:14 AM

Agile SOA Across the Lifecycle - Part Five: IT and SOA Governance

This is the fifth of a six part series of posts on the Agile SOA life cycle. Here we will at look at IT and SOA Governance. With the introduction of agile, spiral, and scrum development methodologies, the traditional waterfall development approach of testing a near-finished app at the end of many Agile development cycles won't be agile at all, as the elements of the application are constantly changing. Traditional models of IT governance will also not work. To aggravate testing, the service-or

Dec. 1, 2008 08:06 AM

Linux Ported to iPhone

You can now put linux onto your shiny iPhone. Linux Kernel 2.6 has been ported across and it will work on the 1st / 2nd Generation iPhone / Touch devices.It is still does not have many drivers but it seems that the Frame buffer driver, Serial Driver driver, Serial over USB and a few others are now working. Right now at this early stage wireless networking also does not work but it is a work in progress. Once installed you can boot into the iPhone OS or the Linux OS using a

Nov. 30, 2008 10:22 AM

Øredev, Oracle, Kaazing, and WebSockets - the true story ;)

This was my second time at the Swedish conference Øredev and, whaoo, it has grown in both size and content. As with many of the top tier conferences you meet the regular suspects, but at Øredev you will also meet new faces and new interesting companies. There were several interesting companies there presenting their technologies, solutions, and services, such as JavaBlaokBelt and JayWay. We also met with former colleagues and friends from Oracle, and here is a classical picture from an encou

Nov. 28, 2008 03:16 AM

iPhone SDK Development Training

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. 27, 2008 09:45 PM

Social Media and the Making of a President

According to Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, “Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not be president.” In his presidential campaign, United States President-elect Barack Obama made use of social-networking in a way that was unheard of. As a result of this non-traditional approach, his team managed to shatter all previous fundraising [...]

Nov. 27, 2008 06:55 AM

Satisfying unmet needs versus creating needs

For a proposal I’m drafting, I wrote: “It’s important to recognize that successful innovations do not create needs—they satisfy unmet needs. The trick is figuring out what needs are going unmet.” Is that true?

Nov. 25, 2008 04:38 PM

Open Source Cloud Tools

I was going through my email today and found a recent email from Matt Rechenburg of OpenQRM who just released OpenQRM version 4.2. In the latest addition OpenQRM has support for provisioning server images in the cloud. Here’s the list of features: This new version comes with additional support for VMware ESX, an integration with Puppet for automated configuration management, improvements for the high-availability mechanism and, last but not least, a Cloud-plugin. This new Cloud-plugin prov

Nov. 25, 2008 12:43 PM

HBR on Susceptibility to Fads (like SOA)

The December issue of the Harvard Business Review contains a compelling article on "Why You Shouldn't Go Global" ( excerpeted here for free ). While the article is worth reading, a sidebar in the article raises some excellent points which we might be...(read more)

Nov. 25, 2008 08:28 AM

Jonas Jacobi's Corner of the World

Øredev, Oracle, Kaazing, and WebSockets - the true story ;)

Posted: Nov. 28, 2008 03:16 AM

JavaBlackBelt community about Kaazing

We recently had the very pleasant experience attending Øredev, a Swedish conference for developers from all paths of life. In one word - awesome!! At the conference we had the opportunity to present HTML 5 WebSockets to the Øredev developer comm

Posted: Nov. 25, 2008 01:07 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 sol

Posted: Nov. 17, 2008 03:20 PM

Tutorial: Creating a Web-based chat with HTML 5 WebSockets and XMPP

Creating an XMPP-based Web chat client with HTML WebSockets and Kaazing Gateway. Peter from Kaazing has put together a tutorial showing how you can create your own Web-based chat using HTML 5 standards (Websockets and SSE), XMPP, and Kaazing Gateway.

Posted: Oct. 31, 2008 05:55 PM

Training: HTML 5 Web Sockets & Server-Sent Events

Kaazing's team has been working extensively over the past months to put together a highly practical 3-day class on Comet and HTML 5 Web Sockets and Server-Sent Events (SSE). The effort is coordinated with our friends at Skillsmatter and for those of

Posted: Oct. 31, 2008 05:04 PM

Kaazing Gateway (Atlantis) 8.09_2 now available for download

Kaazing Gateway 8.09_2 is now available for download at kaazing.org. Kaazing Gateway is an open source HTML 5 WebSocket Server that is available for use under the OSI approved Common Public Attribution License (CPAL)—a derivative of the Mozilla P

Posted: Oct. 30, 2008 04:26 PM

Kaazing and WebSockets @ JAOO

Now at our third leg of the Kaazing "World Tour" I finally find some time to catch up with my blogging. At the end of September Ric Smith and I had the great opportunity to visit Arhus (Denmark) and the JAOO conference. This was our first time at JAO

Posted: Oct. 30, 2008 04:05 PM

HTML 5, The Future is Now!

If the future of the Web is of any interest to you I would recommend reading the following blog post by my longtime friend John Fallows. As a request by the organizers of the Silicon Valley Web Builder user group, John wrote a great post on the emerg

Posted: Oct. 27, 2008 04:54 PM

Kaazing World Tour - Learn About HTML 5 WebSockets

The Kaazing World Tour has started! If you are interested in learning how you can take advantage of streaming data to your social website, trading Web application, monitoring solution, and online poker game now is your chance. The Kaazing team will b

Posted: Sep. 26, 2008 01:28 AM

Kaazing Moves to New Office

Kaazing has moved! Our new address is: Kaazing Corporation 888 Villa Street, #410 Mountain View, CA 94041 For those of you that managed to visit our old office space will realize that we have not moved too far About a 1 mile - staying in downtow

Posted: Sep. 19, 2008 03:13 PM