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Oct. 8, 2008 06:49 AM

Organize All The World’s Information, Then Put Google Ads On It

It’s unlikely Google will ever find another money machine as efficient as search advertising, which accounts for about 40% of the $40 billion advertising dollars spent online each year. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t going to try. Today they unleashed two new forms of advertisements: click to buy links on YouTube and adsense for Flash games. The New York Times says Google plans to release several other ad products in the coming weeks as well, so don’t think we’r

Oct. 8, 2008 04:30 AM

Stock Market Discussion — 500 Points Down and the Debate

Here is the fifth conversation I had with money manager Andrew Horowitz. This was recorded immediately after the second McCain-Obama debate. A good discussion on the 500 point drop…. new insights for anyone who invests in anything. What to do? This chat is not produced and presented as-is for anyone who wants to listen [...]

Oct. 8, 2008 02:09 AM

Breaking Brooks’s Law

Fred Brooks’s law of ‘adding manpower to a late software project makes it later‘ is one most of us have tried to prove wrong…….and failed! I was at Agile 2008 and saw an interesting session, “Breaking Brooks’s Law” from Menlo Innovations, a Michigan based Java development company. They claimed to disprove this law and demonstrated their working environment and techniques that allowed them to do so. Although the presentation was only 45 minutes, we

Oct. 8, 2008 12:42 AM

Sun Microsystems – Fifth in Our Series on Software Community Blogs

One of our partners, Sun Microsystems, has an excellent collection of blogs. Sun's News Blog has a list of some of these blogs around Sun including Jonathan Schwartz’s blog & other senior executives. Jonathan is Sun's President and COO and he was one of the first senior executives to start a personal blog. He recently shared a memo he sent to Sun’s leader about the role of technology in helping with the current economic crisis, Innovation Loves a Crisis. He writes that many busines

Oct. 7, 2008 09:40 PM

Samsung has crappy design — so why is it always an exemplar?

I’m reading Do You Matter? How Great Design Will Make People Love Your Company. In theme and topic, it’s *very* similar to Subject to Change, which mostly makes me grateful that we published first. We also don’t reference Apple *nearly* as much as this book does, though I guess it may be excusable, because one of its authors, Rob Brunner, worked there (though, he worked there when Jobs wasn’t there, so take that as you will). Anyway, I’m compelled to blog because w

Oct. 7, 2008 04:06 PM

Mashups for the People. You Betcha!

I laughed when I heard Sarah Palin say in last week's debate: “...and I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also” (this is straight from the CNN transcript). I laughed because it’s such overt “spin” to say you’re not going to answer what the moderator wants to hear. And, incidentally, it's exactly what the moderator wants to hear.But that’s beside the po

Oct. 7, 2008 02:08 PM

Advice for Chris Messina

If you're interested in how formats and protocols evolve on the web, you might want to listen to Steve Gillmor's interview of Chris Messina on yesterday's Gillmor Gang. I used to do roughly what Chris does, but I got tired of all the kitchen sinks being thrown at me because of my success from people who work at big tech companies. They have all kinds of techniques for thwarting success, but one simple motive, as I've come to understand it. All big tech companies are basically the same inside, t

Oct. 7, 2008 01:12 PM

BPMI TT 08: CEP augmenting BPMS for agility

… was the catchy snappy hip punchy title of our contribution to this year’s BPMI (aka OMG) Think Tank 2008’s RoundTable sessions. These are used to get feedback from end-users, consultants and indeed other vendors on a variety of issues - which in this case was the role of Complex Event Processing and business events in BPM (aka BPMN models). For a warm-up, Jim Sinur (Gartner) gave a keynote covering “The Economics of Business Process”, explaining that businesses sh

Oct. 7, 2008 11:23 AM

Amazon S3 File Explorer and Office plug-in

I recently installed the new Windows File Explorer for the SMEStorage platform. It provides a windows based file manager for Amazon S3 and allows you to upload / download files as well as allowing you to easily file sharing by just clicking a button. It also allows you to share files and collaborate with any business groups you have setup.You of course need to have registered for a SMEStorage account to use it. You can either use your own Amazon Account via their OpenS3 program or use SMEStor

Oct. 7, 2008 10:58 AM

Spectacular 1960s jazz photos

Roberto Polillo has scanned and posted stunning black and white photos of jazz greats he took in the early to mid 1960s. (Disclosure: I had dinner at his home last night. Thanks, Roberto!)

Oct. 7, 2008 10:05 AM

Smart, Deep Property Notifications in CLINQ v2.0

I haven't said much about CLINQ lately but that's mostly because we've been trying to get v2.0 ready to ship. We're nearly there, so I thought I would start by talking about one of the new features - smart property notifications

Oct. 7, 2008 09:15 AM

Is really LINQ the best option for a future Java query API?

My interview to Mike Card has triggered an intense discussion ongoing, on the pros and cons of considering LINQ as the best option for a future Java query API. You can follow the discussion here.

Oct. 7, 2008 07:49 AM

Updated Simple Java API class for Amazon SimpleDB

Access Amazon's SimpleDB via a Java class that has no other dependencies or external libraries. Code as it should be. Uncomplicated and works.Leave CommentRelated Entries:Cloud Bootcamp announced, learn what all the fuss is aboutAmazon's EC2 now with WindowsFrom deep within the bowels of SUNAmazon S3 suffers an 8hr outage; Trust no oneWindows 3.1 on a Nokia N810Speaking at CloudCamp LondonA simple Java API class for Amazon SimpleDBjava.lang.InternalError at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getR

Oct. 7, 2008 07:26 AM

Lessons You Can Learn From the Movies

I posted an entry called "What You Can Learn From Hollywood" over at the American Express small business blog. I derived these lessons from the work of Scott Kirsner. He studied the movie industry and ended up writing a book called Inventing the Movies: Hollywood's Epic Battle Between Innovation and the Status Quo, from Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs

Oct. 7, 2008 12:01 AM

Flash Camp this weekend in San Francisco

If you are in the San Francisco Bay area (or not too far away), then make sure to check out Flash Camp this weekend, being held in the Adobe San Francisco office by the Flash team. This is an all weekend event that will go in depth over the new Flash Player 10 and Flash Authoring features. Its a great chance to get up to speed really quickly on all of the new APIs and features, as well as hang out and have a few beers with the Flash team. Plus, everyone attending will get a Free copy of Flash CS

Oct. 6, 2008 05:21 PM

Flex Camp 360 NJ

File this under the better late than never... On September 26 and 27th, the folks who bring you Flex 360, put on a 2 day "Flex Camp" in New Jersery, which went over extremely well. I was presenting on Testing with Fluint (formerl

Oct. 6, 2008 07:43 AM

Inventions and PR

Inventor invent things. What a revelation! But the thing is that often they invent things just for the sake of inventing things. Take a look at this mini motel for travellers that got stranded and have to sleep in the airport or other . Visualize yo

Oct. 5, 2008 04:04 AM

Quarterly Royalty Statement

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Oct. 3, 2008 04:13 PM

Save the dates…

TechWave 2009 will be held at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., Aug. 16-20.Original Entry

Oct. 3, 2008 10:17 AM

Stack Overflow Podcast #24

The whole Stack Overflow team got together in person at Fog Creek's shiny new office in New York City for a roundtable discussion about the future of StackOverflow.com, which is up as this week's podcast. Shanah Tovah u-Metuka! Not loving your job? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great software jobs, great people.

Oct. 1, 2008 10:32 AM

Running Toronto Marathon - 9/28/2008

A couple of years ago my friend Kaushal Vyas blogged about his first marathon experience. His blog entry started with some quotes from Lance Armstrong on his first marathon: “the hardest physical thing I have ever done. Even the worst days in the tours, nothing was as hard as that and nothing left me feeling the way I feel now in terms of sheer fatigue and soreness. I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier…”. It didn’t resonate with me at t

Oct. 1, 2008 12:28 AM

The Contribution Revolution

The October edition of the Harvard Business Journal has a contributed article by Intuit co-founder Scott Cooke on how to build your business using communities. I thought it interesting that he used many of the standard “crowd-sourcing” examples like Skype and Wikipedia but no open source software examples. Given Intuit’s proprietary nature I guess I [...]

Sep. 30, 2008 02:12 AM

OSUG - Special Guest

Sybase - PowerBuilder Family senior product manager - Sue Dunnell will be attending the next Ottawa Sybase User Group meeting ...

Sep. 29, 2008 09:02 AM

Zakaria on Palin

Fareed Zakaria: Palin Is Ready? Please.. Has a presidential candidate ever announced a new running mate this late in the game? If not, there's always a first time!

Sep. 28, 2008 08:19 PM

Bill Dudney's Weblog

iPhone game in top 50!

I'm totally stoked to say that my Dot Game has made it into the top 50 of all games on the store! Buy early, Buy often!

Posted: Jul. 14, 2008 07:21 PM

iPhone App Store Live!

Hard to believe that its finally here. I am really excited and can hardly believe that I have stuff there! Riddle Racer Dot Game Buy Early, Buy Often :)

Posted: Jul. 10, 2008 09:45 AM

iPhone book and objc blog...

I am constantly blown away that the cool winding and twisting of life... I am done the Core Animation book, now just waiting for the iPhone NDA to lift so we can ship it. I started a book on iPhone for the prag's, which is very very fun and cool too

Posted: Jun. 25, 2008 05:57 PM

Core Animation Screen Cast Episode 4 On Line

I finished Episode 4 up last night and the gerbils (i.e. Mike Clark) @ PragProg already turned it into a downloadable movie. You can grab it here. This episode came in a bit long (at 42 minutes) but I could not think of what to delete. The main t

Posted: Jun. 3, 2008 10:59 PM

Woot!

iPhone, key arrived, os installing, nothing to be said, NDA and all that, very excited... Lame attempt to be funny, hard to be silent.

Posted: May. 1, 2008 09:20 PM

Mac Developer Round Table

Scotty was kind enough to have me on the Mac Developer Roundtable tonight. If you are interested in WWDC or iPhone SDK please have a listen. It was tons of fun! Thanks again Scotty! For those of you coming here from Scotty's site check out my Cor

Posted: Mar. 17, 2008 11:53 PM

New Mini Online...

As I documented here my poor old PPC mini was having trouble keeping up with the success of my wife's iPhone Games so I bought and configured a new Intel mini and shipped it off last week. It went on line yesterday and is now barely above 10% CPU us

Posted: Feb. 26, 2008 04:24 PM

Coming Home...

Way back in college I had the great privilege of working on a NeXTCube (started on system 0.9, yes I'm old...) with Mathematica doing some really cool non-linear stuff. It was my first exposure to Unix (which of course spoiled me rotten) and I was h

Posted: Feb. 3, 2008 01:13 AM

Zero G?

So way back in the day when I worked at NASA one of the projects I was involved in was the space suits for Reagan's space station. That was supposed to be assembled from K'enx type things and they needed new suits to give the astronauts more time in

Posted: Jan. 23, 2008 09:18 PM

Alfresco on OS X - ImageMagic and OpenOffice

Alfreso is a fantastic ECM solution that has some amazing features and some great momentum. It has been more than a year since I've used Alfresco and man have they gotten some cool stuff done. I spent the last couple of days getting certified to t

Posted: Nov. 29, 2007 11:32 AM