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Oct. 10, 2008 06:13 PM

Getting The UnParty Started: Seesmic Lays Off 1/3 Of Staff

It’s time to start slamming the reality of the Silicon Valley situation home to everyone. Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur lets seven employees go, he says, which is more than a third of the company. This comes on top of three employees let go a couple of weeks ago. “We cut everything that wasn’t outsourceable, core or absolutely necessary for the company.” Le Meur says the company isn’t in dire financial trouble yet, noting he raised a $6 million round just a few month

Oct. 10, 2008 06:03 PM

A note about conferences

I was recently invited to keynote a prestigious conference in a European city. I agreed to speak but only on the condition that they cover my expenses. I didn't ask to be paid for my time, but after they said no, I realize I should have. Here's why. I didn't have a product to pitch or have a company that could benefit from the PR. If I were in their shoes (and I have been) I would insist on covering expenses, otherwise the talks would just be advertisements. It seems analogous to asking a vendor

Oct. 10, 2008 05:35 PM

VMware – Sixth in Our Series on Software Community Blogs

VMware, one of our partners, has the VMNT blog which provides virtualization news from VMware and the community of virtualization users, including the VMware Communities and VMTN, the VMware Technology Network. This blog also lists 17 other VMware blogs, each with a specific focus. There is the Console blog that is VMware's Executive Blog. It has contributions from a number of VMware executives. The Develop Center Blog supports their developer community. There is the WMware PhD blog that p

Oct. 10, 2008 02:19 PM

Suggest me a scripting language for blueMarine, Java compatible

I've said a lot of times that I don't like scripting languages, and in fact all of my work is currently done in Java. I see it as perfectly fitting my needs, from JME to JEE, through the Desktop. But...

Oct. 10, 2008 11:10 AM

Being right doesn't count for

Being right doesn't count for much if you can't persuade anyone of that fact.

Oct. 10, 2008 11:06 AM

Catch us at Amazon's London Start up tour

I will be presenting at Amazon's upcoming London road show on how we are using their web services technology. If you are in London the 4th November then stop by.Leave CommentRelated Entries:Calculating your cloud storage costsUpdated Simple Java API class for Amazon SimpleDBEven Stephen Fry fails to get cloud computingCloud Bootcamp announced, learn what all the fuss is aboutAmazon's EC2 now with WindowsUpcoming online webinar - Flying through the cloudsTime for VMWare to change its pricing mod

Oct. 10, 2008 05:16 AM

Stack Overflow Podcast #25

This week's Stack Overflow Podcast features special guest star and programming blogger superhero Steve Yegge. It's a terrific conversation about working at Google, marketing your ideas, and programming languages... one of the most interesting podcasts yet. In the spirit of Steve's extremely long blog posts, we ran about 15 minutes long this week. In the past, Jeff and I have had some audio problems using Skype to record the podcast--mainly, dropouts when we talk over each other.

Oct. 10, 2008 12:00 AM

Bash Scripts for working with ActionScript 3 in TextMate

I have switched over to using TextMate for some of my experimentations with ActionScript. I like how lightweight it is, its extensibility, command completion functionality, and ease of setting up new projects. I find it is perfect for quickly testing new code and ideas. I have put together a couple of bash scripts, which coupled with the ActionScript 3 and Flex TextMate bundles have made working in TextMate a little easier for me. The first script is called autocompile, which takes a class file

Oct. 9, 2008 02:41 PM

Heading to Boston/Cambridge next week

As I emerge from my new fatherhood cave, I’m heading to Cambridge, MA next week for Jared Spool’s UI 13 Conference. I’ll be around for a few days, and would love to catch up with local folks who want to talk experience design. I’m happy to visit companies, share presentations, or just shoot the bull!

Oct. 9, 2008 02:21 PM

The Miller Device

The JavaScript language currently does not provide a good way to distinguish between objects and arrays. The typeof operator is broken: It identifies arrays as objects. Comparing a value's constructor property doesn't work because arrays created in a different frame will have a different constructor. There are do-it-yourself tests for arrayness, but they are complicated and unreliable. Mark Miller of The Google, by closely reading the ECMAScript standard, has discovered

Oct. 9, 2008 01:22 PM

Tech for Obama

If you love the Internet, you ought to vote for Obama. Yes, I know I’ve shocked you with that opinion. You can find more shocks of this sort at Tech for Obama. [Tags: politics obama ]

Oct. 9, 2008 10:45 AM

Develop an iPhone App and beat the credit crunch !

From the press some of the initial iPhone apps have been getting, it seems that there are going to be quite a few Apple iPhone App Store millionaires this year ! So why not write your own and join the crowd ? Don't know Objective C or XCode - then get learning ! A nice resource is theiphonedevplace , which has many tutorial links now that Apple rescinded their NDA . So what you waiting for ? Get going - beat the credit crunch !

Oct. 9, 2008 10:07 AM

Altova Online Training is back, improved, and still free

I am delighted to report that we have relaunched our Altova Online Training program today. We've used this hiatus of a few months to completely redesign our training program and incorporate all the feedback that we had received in the past. One of the key requests heard over and over again was that you wanted to be able to consume the training on your schedule and time, rather than having to sign up for a particular class and deal with available seats, time-zone issues, and fitting a 2-3h class

Oct. 9, 2008 09:02 AM

Stanford University - free programming courses

If you are young and poor, but want to take a some computer science courses for free, I've got something for you.Stanford Univercity is one of the best schools in the world when it comes to preparing software engineers. They have a program called

Oct. 9, 2008 08:19 AM

26 Hours at Sea: The Longest Posting in the History of Blogging

I've been to many interesting places, but nothing compares to my twenty-four hour visit to the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy. I hope that you enjoy these pictures and videos. I would be overjoyed if you spotted someone you know in one of them. Incidentally, this is probably the longest posting in the history of blogging. It contains over 130 photos (I lost count) and five videos. You might question the wisdom of posting this many pictures. After all, I could create

Oct. 9, 2008 02:04 AM

Decision Services in CEP?

One of the more obvious up-and-coming IT “best practices” is the area of “decision management” – as evangelised by James Taylor at Smart Enough Systems – which postulates that separating and managing decisions is as important as managing business processes. In a “conventional event processing” or synchronous SOA world, this means separate “decision services” invoked to make important decisions during automated processes, or prior to BPMN

Oct. 8, 2008 11:13 PM

Mobile observation from the City

City of London that is...

Oct. 8, 2008 06:49 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

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

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

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

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

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

Dvorak Uncensored

Daaaamn, We Consume A Lot Of Beer!!!

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Posted: Oct. 10, 2008 06:13 PM

Canada rated worlds soundest bank system. USA ranks with Namibia

Canada rated worlds soundest bank system: survey | U.S. | Reuters Well, if this doesn’t add insult to injury. Now the Canadians have one more thing to gloat about. Meanwhile we look like a Banana Republic. CANBERRA Reuters - Canada ha

Posted: Oct. 10, 2008 01:14 PM

U.S. spy agencies: chaos in Afghanistan

Everyone's promised Afghanistan a new deal for decades. We always deliver the same.

Posted: Oct. 10, 2008 10:00 AM

Photo Of The Day — Isle of Dogs

Although this is in London, for some reason I think of the US government when I see this.

Posted: Oct. 10, 2008 08:30 AM

Three way phone sex with NSA?

You call your girlfriend. The conversation heats up. You’re listening to each other moaning and then you hear a third voice moaning. Who can it be? It’s the government listening in on your phone calls.

Posted: Oct. 10, 2008 07:05 AM

What a difference a month makes

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Posted: Oct. 9, 2008 10:33 PM