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100 Invites to Yahoo Sear chMonkey Developer Preview
Want to be one of the first to customize your site& #8217;s search results using Yahoo Sear chMonkey? Sign up for the developer preview here and tell them TechCrunch sent ya. The first 100 people to mention TechCrunch in their a pplication will obtain access to the service. They will also get tickets to the Search Monkey launch party [...]
JavaOne - Hits and misses
This years JavaOne was a not to be missed event. Here are my views on how the conference has changed.
Charlie Nesson?s Poker U
When I blogged about Flyp on Tuesday, I didn't know it was about to run an article about Charlie Nesson's poker univ ersity, a place where students learn about life by playing poker online. The article is short and showy, but it'll give you the idea... (Charlie is the founder of ...
Glitch Watch - 250,000 cell phone subscriber s without service
Approximat ely 250,000 cell phone subscriber s lost service for most of Tuesday this week in Vermont and neighb oring states. According to the Bra ttleboro Reformer, a “s oftware is sue” caused the problem, which caused the loss of Un icel’ ;s cell phone service from about 4:00 am until 2:30 in the afternoon. Public Relations Manager Miriam Svobodny said [...]
Design will have a seat at the table - what do we do with it?
Of late, t here’ ;s been some discussion about whether the role of design will have a seat at the table — you know the table, the large mahogany one where all the important decisions are made. Adaptive P ath’ s search for a CEO (or, as one candidate put it to me yesterday, “It& #8217;s like your adopting a parent, 221;) [...]
Gin and the Cognitive Surplus
I recently ran across this 15 minute clip of Clay Shirky talking about what he brillia ntly refers to as the cognitive surplus and how that applies to things like Wikipedia and Web 2.0. It's an absolute must-watch
Blog Carolinas
Today I am attending Blog Carolinas a social media conference being held in North C arolina 217;s Research Triangle Park (that ’s halfway between Raleigh and Durham). I am particu larly inte resting on hearing Andy Beal& #8217;s session on Online Reputation Management . Andy recently launched Trackur, an online reputation monitoring service (which I am interested in using for Zenoss). H ere’ s what [.. .]SHARETHI S.addEntry ({ title: "Blog Caro linas", url: "http ://sociali zedsoftwar e.com/2008 /
In With The New
New APIs, new algorithms and new pr ogramming language. Want more can a geek ask for?
And I made it
Now I can say, at last, that I'm a JavaOne speaker, really, not only a successful submitter. This year no headache, sore throat, cold, flu, pain in the ass prevented me from performing my talk. Not even the stinking MacBook...
Coming soooooon
We're working to build a scalable, beautiful new Twitte rGram, an applicatio n built on the super- powerful SwitchAbit platform.
CEP and TUCON - Where Reality Trumps All
As I write the last of my event summary reports and follow up action items, I am now officially putting a bow on the TIBCO user conference (TUCON 2008) What a madhouse. I was acco untable for the TIBCO Analyst Summit (TIBCO?s first ever), two days of the Business O ptimizatio n track of presentati ons (combining [...]
Star Destroyer: spaceship or film director?
Apparently Lucas is up to his old tricks again . How sad . I was hoping that Spielberg might diminish Lucas? influence on the film . *sigh* I?ll probably go see it anyway. On the upside Iron Man was surpri singly good and Prince Caspian looks to be good... (read more)
PocketBuil der 2.5.1 Getting Some New Samples
PocketBuil der 2.5.1 is getting some new samples from our evangelist Ian Thain.
Check out PowerBuild er 11.5
Dave Fish has a number of entries on his blog site demon strating the soon to be released features, including DataWindow ToolTips and New Graph Styl es.Origina l Entry
Heading to Europe to Speak on AIR and Flex
Stockholm, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Munich and Milan are the cities I will be stopping in as part of the second leg of the European on AIR Tour. I will be MCing the event, and giving a session on building your first AIR applic ation with Flex. The first leg was completely sold out, and the second [...]
JavaScript : The Good Parts
I relied on two models when I wrote Java Script: The Good Parts. The first was Kernighan and Richie's The C P rogramming Language. It is a brilliant little book. I thought there should be a K&R for JavaSc ript. When it seems that most tech books are sold by the pound, it is nice to read a little book that cleanly lays out what you need to know. The other was William Goldman's The Princess Bride. Goldman remembers his grandf ather reading him a wonderful book by S. Morgenste
Another Chapter Begins
At the end of this week, I will no longer be employed by BEA Systems. It has been a great 4 years working at BEA, and u ndoubtedly the highlight of my career thus far. I have enjoyed the opport unity to write for the BEA developer community, and to lead Tooling at BEA these last 3 years.
Mobile web reaches tipping point
According to Forrester research wider handset av ailability , improved network coverage and new pricing models are going to foster rapid adoption of mobile internet services in Europe.By 2013 they predict that the number of people using the Internet via mobile phone will be 125 million - three times toda y's figure.  Some countries, such as the UK, will adopt even faste r. Im proved handset devices, such as the Iphone 2.0, improved networks, such as 3.5G, better network coverage, and fl
JavaOne 2008
Meet you at the JavaOne Modularity session and BOF on Wednesday (May 7th) to share more about the Java Module System and OSGi support. We will show some simple demos of the Java Module System and how a Java module imports an OSGi bundle.
ColdFusion 8.01 64-bit and Supported Linux Distros
The ColdFusion 8.01 System Req uirements as shown in the detailed platform support matrix [PDF] indicates that support for 64-bit Linux dist ributions is limited to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 10.1. This fine print appears to often go o verlooked, so I just want to broadcast it a little louder here. I was contacted today by someone reporting installati on problems and mentioned glibc and floating point errors. A bit of Googling turned up this Google Group thread
Updates on Modularity in the Java platform
There have been lots of exciting d evelopment and changes going on in the modularity areas recently.
Open BlueD ragon: Game On!
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Tweetwheel
If youR 17;re a Twitter user, you must visit Tweetwheel to have it create a visual rep resentatio n of your Twitter network — just type “www .tweetwhee l.com/your TwitterID& #8221; into your browser, and then sit back and watch it. Here&# 8217;s mine (which may be impossible to read on the blog display, but is awesome on my 24-inch Apple display:
Additions to my computer book shelf
My age allows me start grumping. These young prog rammers do n’t read books anymore.&# 160; They google. They argue, &ld quo;When I need to find a solution it’s just a click away. Why bother purchasing books that are outdated by the time of p
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SOA as a Business Strategy
Below is the beginning of an article Jim Irwin and myself wrote for SOA World on how the “real” play with SOA is business agility. Although you may not have heard of Jim Irwin, he is one of the brightest minds in the SOA world … quietly behind the sc
$1,000,000,000 acquisition
Sun's purchase of MySQL for a cool $1 billion is all the buzz today and rightfully so. I think this news goes to show the power, visibility and growth in adoption of open source. And in this particular case MySQL.As enterprises continually seek compe
Web 2.0 and Generational Uptake
Are there generational differences in business that result in operational challenges? You bet! Let me explain.I recently attended a wonderful seminar hosted by Kim Huggins, Owner and President of K HR Solutions on the subject of Generations at Work.
The Ultimate in Customer Service
How can you not be impressed with the way Apple packages their products? It’s obvious they put a lot of effort into the “user experience” all the way through to the opening of the boxes and the packaging of the components. But now I’ve personally exp
Hybrid environments – the realm of Open Source
It is very rare that I come across a datacenter environment that is purely one technology. By that, I mean that most infrastructures are composed of some hybrid mix of legacy (old proprietary), commercial, and open source components. Why is that?We
GTC East 2007 – Business & Technology for Government
It’s been awhile since I traveled to Albany. And, this time of the year, seeing the leaves changing colors along the Hudson was absolutely spectacular. This is the 19th year for the event, obviously highlighting New York’s leading-edge efforts at stu
Enterprise Open Source Magazine article
Enterprise Open Source magazine just published an article I wrote on business adoption of open source solutions for mission-critical applications. The article analyzes the results of a study that Unisys commissioned from Forrester Consulting. Based o
Model of Mass-Collaboration
Many of my blog posts have focused on the business benefits of open source. But perhaps even more significant is how the open source model of “mass collaboration” is changing the way the world works. Some of you know that I’m working on a book on thi
The CIO Conundrum
I call it the “CIO Conundrum”, and it goes something like this: you are the CIO of a large company and each year, your budget is, on average, decreasing by about 4%. And, most of the money you’re allocated (perhaps 70% of more) is used to maintain yo
Red Hat SI Breakfast outside Washington DC
Served on a panel discussion at today’s Red Hat breakfast seminar entitled: The Next Big Open Source Migration – SOA: Simple, Open, Affordable. I was joined by very knowledgeable panel members including Robert Ames, BU Executive at IBM; Drew Cohen, S
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AJAX World - Sun Talks Up its Late-to-the-Party AIR-Silverlight Rival
JavaFX News Desk wrote: At Java One this week Sun has been selling its year -old-but-still-upcoming - and definitely late-to-the-party - Adobe AIR- and Microsoft Silverlight-competitive JavaFX Rich Client environment as a potential revenue-generator capable of putting ads on m...
How Open Is "Open"? – Industry Luminaries Join the Debate
Business Outsourcing wrote: Great article. Now if we put business outsourcing and open source business together, we'd have a powerful company for obvious reasons. Business Outsourcing Tips
Viewpoint: Time for Open Source Software Vendors to Think Beyond Free
Mark Murphy wrote: "Savio Rodrigues had a good posting..." If that was a "good posting", this comment might be worthy of a Pulitzer. Any article, blog posting, or whatever using the term "freetards" doesn't exactly give you much credibility. Morover, Mr. Rodrigues failed to ...
The Open Solutions Alliance Enters Its Second Year
nnot hte one to answer this either wrote: Who cares about htis anyway? Don't sue me, but you look like an ass in that picture man... GET IT CHANGED you Nerd! We all geeks, but you look like NetMan without Dan Williams polish...
A DWR Data Store for Dojo
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