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Oct. 13, 2008 06:30 PM

To tell you the truth, after listening to this, I don’t know where he stands on Net neutrality. He does say he supports it, but I don’t get a warm feeling that he understands what he means. For purposes of comparison: I don’t know when either of these snippets were recorded. [Tags: net_neutrality mccain obama ]

Oct. 13, 2008 04:38 PM

Video interview with eBoy from on AIR Tour

While in Berlin this summer for the on AIR Tour, Lee Brimelow and I got the opportunity to visit their eBoy studio and chat with the guys about how they create their work. Lee has just posted a video of the visit on his blog. I have always been a huge fan of eBoy’s work and art (best know for their pixel art). We worked with them to design the Adobe AIR launch t-shirt and poster (both of which have been very popular), and most recently, on a new AIR tshirt (which we gave out in Asia). You

Oct. 13, 2008 01:18 PM

Android’s Login Is Cool, But Is It Secure?

I’ve been hearing a lot about Google’s innovative login feature for the Android phone, but only saw it today for the first time (Loren Feldman, who recently did some video of one, sent a screenshot). Unlike other phones, which require a four digit number for unlocking, the Android simply puts nine dots arranged in a square on the touch screen, along with the words “draw pattern to unlock.” My understanding is that any pattern can be used as long as it touches at least fou

Oct. 13, 2008 02:07 AM

Autumn colors

Oct. 12, 2008 09:28 PM

The Paperless Office: I CALLED IT!

In 2002, I wrote a lengthy response to Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker piece on The Social Life of Paper. Gladwell was addressing a recent book at the time, The Myth of the Paperless Office, and coming to the conclusion, with them, that all this gee-whiz computer technology is not leading to a paperless office, and paper is great, and computers aren’t so great, and hey, you kids, get off my lawn. Actually, he didn’t say, “hey, you kids, get off my lawn,” but I’v

Oct. 12, 2008 05:11 PM

Visiting Japan. Part 1. Arrival

It’s my first time in this country, and I’m looking forward to new discoveries. This week my wife and I are on vacation in Japan. Our friends Dora and Felix have arrived a day earlier. Dora runs a small but very reputable trav

Oct. 12, 2008 02:40 PM

Some More Good SOA Business Blogs

I have now written a six part series on software community blogs. This has included some of our larger partners such as Oracle, TIBCO, and Software AG who maintain multiple blogs with a community. I also covered the Agile Commons blog by our partner, Rally. We have some other partners who have excellent individual blogs, or in the case of Infosys, a great collection of blogs. A list can be found in the right side of this blog. Here are three more of them. dynaTrace is a leader in lifecycl

Oct. 12, 2008 01:27 PM

Even Stephen Fry fails to get cloud computing

Stephen Fry recently published an article on cloud computing. Like many others he got it completely wrong and was describing nothing more than what the Internet is. Cloud computing is not the second coming. Leave Comment Related Entries: Cloud Bootcamp announced, learn what all the fuss is about Amazon's EC2 now with Windows dot.com bubble2.0 Upcoming online webinar - Flying through the clouds From deep within the bowels of SUN Time for VMWare to change its pricing model Amazon S3 s

Oct. 10, 2008 09:52 PM

Sins of Commissions

“A couple of years ago, I went into a big-box shoe store and bought a pair of sneakers. At the checkout counter, the cashier grabbed a can of that bogus silicone spray stores always try to up-sell you. It's supposed to make sneakers shiny and waterproof, but it doesn't seem to do anything.” From my latest Inc. column: Sins of Commissions My dad emailed to add: The same problem arises when you set measurable incentives (money for better test results) in educational policies

Oct. 10, 2008 05:34 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

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

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

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

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Running Toronto Marathon - 9/28/2008

Posted: Oct. 1, 2008 12:28 AM

JavaScript Execution Context, Closure, Eval and “this” Keyword

These are a few key concepts of JavaScript language that developers should know: execution context, activation object, variable instantiation, scoping, closure, eval and “this” keyword. Knowing these would help one tremendously in Ajax d

Posted: Sep. 13, 2008 11:36 PM

Ajax-heavy Applications on Google Chrome

“This is the best browser so far” is that I can say after being a Chrome user for one day. First of all, I was glad to find out that I haven’t found Chrome breaking any web application yet, especially Ajax applications. I was a li

Posted: Sep. 3, 2008 09:02 AM

The 64KB Java Language Problem - Lesson Learnd from Using Rhino to Process JavaScript

This entry documents a few tips related to using Rhino JavaScript Engine to process JavaScript code. If you are using Rhino, you probably won’t run into the issues covered in this post during development or even testing. However, you are fairly

Posted: Sep. 1, 2008 01:13 PM

Razor Profiler - An Automated JavaScript Profiling Tool

Razor Profiler (beta), an online Ajax profiling tool, is available for public review now at http://www.razorspeed.com. What Is it? Razor Profiler(beta) is a web-based Ajax profiling tool to help web developers understand and an

Posted: Aug. 16, 2008 10:47 PM

OpenAjax Publishes Future Browser Feature Wish List Results

What does the Ajax community want from future browsers? How are these different requests prioritized? Web developers have done amazing things with Ajax for both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 applications, but what barriers need to be removed to enable the next

Posted: Jul. 17, 2008 09:57 AM

OpenAjax Publishes Future Browser Feature Wish List Results

Posted: Jul. 17, 2008 09:57 AM

Time to Vote - Ajax Feature Wish List

What would you like to see in the next generation of browsers? Can you help to make the web a slightly better place than where it is today? Various people from the Ajax community have put together a good list of feature requests (a total of over 40),

Posted: Jun. 23, 2008 12:14 PM

Time to Vote - Ajax Feature Wish List

Posted: Jun. 23, 2008 12:14 PM

Fix for WordPress TinyMCE Editor Problem

If the visual editor (TinyMCE) in your newly installed Wordpress is not showing up, this maybe a solution to your problem. First, Make Sure your visual editor is turned on. In the Wordpress admin, up in the upper right corner, click on your user nam

Posted: Jun. 19, 2008 07:17 PM