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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 ]
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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...
Being right doesn't count for much if you can't persuade anyone of that fact.
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
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 !      
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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.
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
TechWave 2009 will be held at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., Aug. 16-20.Original Entry
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
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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 f
Eyealike Sets Its Image Recognition Technology On A New Target: Advertising
Eyealike, the startup that lets you use photo recognition to help find your ideal mate, is expanding to apply its image processing technology to a new market: advertising. The company says that the new system will allow businesses to place highly t
MySpace Launches “My Ads” Self Serve Ad Platform: Is This Their Google Moment?
MySpace launches their self serve ad platform, called My Ads, tonight, which was first talked about a year ago. Like Facebook’s similar product, it allows anyone to quickly create a targeted ad and serve it on MySpace. Unlike Facebook, which o
The Prickly Prince From Microsoft Strikes Again
Dare Obasanjo, a Microsoft employee and the son of a former President of Nigeria, doesn’t like it when people disagree with him. I found that out in 2007 when Obasanjo vandalized the TechCrunch Wikipedia page in response to a post we wrote that
Will Verizon’s New Three-Cent Hike Kill SMS Services?
On Friday, word got out that come November 1 Verizon Wireless plans to tack on an extra 3-cent charge for every SMS message sent by Web information services to any of its mobile subscribers. That hike will be on top of the 20 cents per message tha
Brightcove 3 (Leaked ScreenShots)
Brightcove, the Web video distribution platform used by media companies including Dow Jones, Warner Music, and the New York Times, is getting a massive makeover. Most people won’t see it, but its customers will. A new version of the Web-based
MashLogic: Take Back The Web (By Getting Awesome Links)
Bessemer Venture Partners is launching an incubated startup called MashLogic into private beta today, with the audacious promise of helping people “take back the web.” They say (and they’re not alone) that the web today is driven b
Profit Maximization V. Survival Maximization
A lot of criticism has been aimed at venture capitalists the last few days. The VCs are telling their portfolio companies to get ahead of the curve and conserve cash right now, and companies are starting to take their advice. The criticism is coming
Forget the Front Desk: Hotels Go High Tech
There’s nothing like a bit of luxury when staying at a nice hotel. Be it in-room dining or the staff waiting on your every need, feeling like a king for a day is a matter of taking advantage of the hotel’s services. Unfortunately, the sys
Twitter to IM: Drop Dead
It took a worldwide financial meltdown for Twitter to finally cough up the IM hairball. At BearHug Camp, I spent about 10 of the 30 minute executive visitation trying to pin down Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Alex Payne on when exactly Track and IM wou

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