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Neil Raden blogged on Intelligent Enterprise about Process Intelligence, commenting that that “Operational BI, Pervasive BI, Operational Intelligence, Process Intelligence, BAM, Complex Event Processing, Decision Management and Decision Services” all overlap. This is almost certainly true, but some of these like CEP are technologies, and some like Process Intelligence are more applications of such technologies. We might draw these together by saying Process Intelligence (insight and

Dec. 1, 2008 06:03 PM

This Bear Market Is Brought To You By Jack Daniels

File this one under “Unfortunate Ad Placements.” On a day that the Dow dropped 680 points (7.7 percent), MarketWatch ran the Jack Daniels banner ad in the screenshot above (sent to us by reader Scott Murff). The ad shows the “countdown to the close” of the market in minutes and seconds, suggesting that might be a good time for a drink. Juxtaposed with the headline “Bears Refusing To Hibernate,” it takes on additional meaning. It becomes a commentary on the

Dec. 1, 2008 05:53 PM

How the FCC transition works

Harold Feld steps through the various scenarios of how the FCC will go through its transition next year. You’d think it’d be a straightforward process. Hah! Harold lays it all out. Does Martin step down? How many new commissioners will Obama get to appoint? If the Republican commissioners were replaced by 19th century French Impressionists and the Democrats were replaced by unicorns, who would win the touch football match? Harold considers every possibility … [Tags: fcc harold

Dec. 1, 2008 09:12 AM

Agile SOA Across the Lifecycle - Part Five: IT and SOA Governance

This is the fifth of a six part series of posts on the Agile SOA life cycle. Here we will at look at IT and SOA Governance. With the introduction of agile, spiral, and scrum development methodologies, the traditional waterfall development approach of testing a near-finished app at the end of many Agile development cycles won't be agile at all, as the elements of the application are constantly changing. Traditional models of IT governance will also not work. To aggravate testing, the service-or

Dec. 1, 2008 08:06 AM

Darwin Candidate Feeds a Bear

Nov. 30, 2008 06:26 PM

FriendFeed and level playing fields

I've always been a bit puzzled about how FriendFeed does RSS, but I've never (until now) taken the time to find the source of the puzzlement. I've always just fumbled my way around, sort of approximating what I wanted, and when I couldn't get it, falling back to the API. But now I've hit a wall, and taken the time to understand the nature of the wall. Let me explain. Consider this screen (click on it to see the detail): Suppose you used a photo site that wasn't one of the ones listed, but you h

Nov. 30, 2008 02:10 PM

Linux Ported to iPhone

You can now put linux onto your shiny iPhone. Linux Kernel 2.6 has been ported across and it will work on the 1st / 2nd Generation iPhone / Touch devices.It is still does not have many drivers but it seems that the Frame buffer driver, Serial Driver driver, Serial over USB and a few others are now working. Right now at this early stage wireless networking also does not work but it is a work in progress. Once installed you can boot into the iPhone OS or the Linux OS using a

Nov. 30, 2008 10:22 AM

BBC interview with Apple co-founder

Check out this interesting BBC interview with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak

Nov. 28, 2008 07:00 PM

Øredev, Oracle, Kaazing, and WebSockets - the true story ;)

This was my second time at the Swedish conference Øredev and, whaoo, it has grown in both size and content. As with many of the top tier conferences you meet the regular suspects, but at Øredev you will also meet new faces and new interesting companies. There were several interesting companies there presenting their technologies, solutions, and services, such as JavaBlaokBelt and JayWay. We also met with former colleagues and friends from Oracle, and here is a classical picture from an encou

Nov. 28, 2008 03:16 AM

Asking for a Favor: Sign Up for the Alltop News and Updates Email List

Please help me evangelize Alltop by joining the Alltop News and Announcements email list. All you have to do is send an email to: news-subscribe@alltop.com You’ll get a confirmation email. Reply to it, and you’re set. Whenever we announce new Alltop topics, we’ll send out an email so that you can spread the word to your friends, relatives, and colleagues. We have over 350 topics now, so I’m sure that you’ll find something of interest. To illustrate the breadth of our covera

Nov. 28, 2008 02:17 AM

Stack Overflow Podcast #31

In the Thanksgiving edition of the Stack Overflow podcast, episode 31, Jeff and I discuss math, status reports, the economic downturn, the business case for nice office space, SQL parameters, programming “slumps,” and a whole lot more. Not loving your job? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great software jobs, great people.

Nov. 27, 2008 10:56 PM

iPhone SDK Development Training

Unless you've been in a cave for the last few months, you'll know that Apple's iPhone Platform is one of the most exciting Mobile Platforms for the last few years, not only for consumers but now for business.

Nov. 27, 2008 09:45 PM

Thankful

On this day of thanks, on a professional level, I’m really thankful that Dojo is such a thriving community, and SitePen is able to work with such amazing and great companies. A few people have asked me privately if I am upset that Alex is joining Google. The short answer is, absolutely not. Alex has been hacking on WebKit and Gears for a while now, and when we heard about Chrome, we thought it was a great way to make the open web better. I’m thankful that a company like Google ded

Nov. 27, 2008 11:24 AM

Social Media and the Making of a President

According to Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, “Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not be president.” In his presidential campaign, United States President-elect Barack Obama made use of social-networking in a way that was unheard of. As a result of this non-traditional approach, his team managed to shatter all previous fundraising [...]

Nov. 27, 2008 06:55 AM

Satisfying unmet needs versus creating needs

For a proposal I’m drafting, I wrote: “It’s important to recognize that successful innovations do not create needs—they satisfy unmet needs. The trick is figuring out what needs are going unmet.” Is that true?

Nov. 25, 2008 04:38 PM

Open Source Cloud Tools

I was going through my email today and found a recent email from Matt Rechenburg of OpenQRM who just released OpenQRM version 4.2. In the latest addition OpenQRM has support for provisioning server images in the cloud. Here’s the list of features: This new version comes with additional support for VMware ESX, an integration with Puppet for automated configuration management, improvements for the high-availability mechanism and, last but not least, a Cloud-plugin. This new Cloud-plugin prov

Nov. 25, 2008 12:43 PM

HBR on Susceptibility to Fads (like SOA)

The December issue of the Harvard Business Review contains a compelling article on "Why You Shouldn't Go Global" ( excerpeted here for free ). While the article is worth reading, a sidebar in the article raises some excellent points which we might be...(read more)

Nov. 25, 2008 08:28 AM

Mashups can turn any Enterprise into a Superorganism

A few nights ago I watched a very interesting piece on the Discovery Channel about ant colonies called ‘Ant Wars’. (Give me a few more lines and you’ll understand why this has anything to do with IT, enterprises or Mashups). I was awe-struck with the way that an ant colony behaves as one unified being rather than millions of individuals - some ants perform one function, which other ants use to their advantage so as to be able to perform their function more easily, and so on, and so on.

Nov. 24, 2008 04:11 PM

Carl Olofson on Innovation

Here is another interview on Innovation. This time with Carl Olofson, IDC. Carl Olofson performs research and analysis for IDC’s Information Management and Data Integration Software service within the Application Development and Deployment research group. Mr. Olofson’s research involves following sales and technical developments in the information and data management (IDM) markets, database management systems (DBMS) markets, data movement and replication software, data management software, m

Nov. 24, 2008 09:07 AM

Congratulations to JUG Lugano

About 40 attendees at the very first meeting is really a good start. And the discussions, both at the end of my speech and at the restaurant, were pretty pretty interesting. Technorati Tags: JUG Lugano...

Nov. 21, 2008 05:25 AM

Strings

FORTRAN was a programming language for crunching numbers. It provided limited textual support, primarily for the labeling of output. It did this with Hollerith constants. Hollerith constants were named for Herman Hollerith, who adapted the punched card for data processing. To make a Hollerith constant, enter the number of characters, then the letter H, and then the characters. 13HHELLO, WORLD! ALGOL 60 had better textual support, adding a structure called a string which was a s

Nov. 20, 2008 12:24 PM

Adobe MAX. Blog #5. Day 2.Flash Catalyst

MAX, as a big brother hosts a number of small unconferences, which are located in the well equipped half-open spaces in the hallway. They have AV, comfy coaches, and are less formal gatherings of the developers. At 8:30AM I was sitting at 360MAX unco

Nov. 20, 2008 10:00 AM

Five or 15 True Friends

Mr. Zucker's relationship with Mr. Weinstein is also the subject of commentary in the court papers. At a meeting in January 2007 between the two, Mr. Weinstein told Mr. Zucker: "You can only have in your life five true friends, and I consider you one of my five friends. And I'm telling you, I will not embarrass you." When the Weinstein Company filed its reply to the lawsuit last month, it claimed that Mr. Weinstein told Mr. Zucker that a person "has about 15 friends in the business world" and t

Nov. 20, 2008 06:51 AM

Ruby on Rails Bible Now on Twitter

For those who Twitter, the Ruby on Rails Bible book now has a Twitter feed of its own. You can follow Ruby on Rails Bible for content updates and corrections, new content, discussion about the book and its contents, and Rails knowledge sharing. You

Nov. 19, 2008 12:17 PM

Foundation Classes - PocketBuilder

** Hot News ** Software Tool & Die (my company) is pleased to announce that they have released an update to their STD Foundation Classes for PocketBuilder (PK). This latest release coincides and complements the lat

Nov. 19, 2008 11:49 AM

The iTKO LISA Soapbox: SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization

Agile SOA Across the Lifecycle - Part Five: IT and SOA Governance

Posted: Dec. 1, 2008 08:06 AM

Agile SOA Across the Lifecycle - Part Six: Conclusion and Index of Links

This is the last of a six part series of posts on the Agile SOA life cycle. Here we will provide our conclusions. As the development lifecycle has changed from traditional waterfall development and testing, to agile, spiral and scrum models supported

Posted: Dec. 1, 2008 01:12 AM

Sizing the Opportunity for IT to Cut Carbon Emissions

A recent McKinsey report, How IT can cut carbon emissions, reported that the carbon footprint associated with IT, including laptops and PCs, data centers and computing networks, mobile phones, and telecommunications networks, could make them among th

Posted: Nov. 28, 2008 05:39 PM

Finding the Blind Spots in SOA Testing

Colleen Frye recently wrote about the consequences of overlooking SOA testing blind spots at SearchSoftwareQuality.com. She reported on an interview with ITKO???s John Michelsen, and Crosscheck's Rizwan Mallal, Green Hat's Madeline Bayliss, and Scott

Posted: Nov. 24, 2008 04:43 PM

Agile SOA Across the Lifecycle - Part Four: IT Operations, Monitoring & Performance

This is the fourth of a six part series of posts on how SOA works within the Agile life cycle. Here we will look at IT operations, monitoring and performance. Once an enterprise application is in deployment and under use, ensuring its continued avail

Posted: Nov. 23, 2008 12:26 PM

Application Development in the Clouds - Mike Vizard and John Michelsen

Mike Vizard at eWeek recently hosted a podcast with ITKO???s John Michelsen, on "Application Development in the Clouds." In this conversation, John and Mike talk about how cloud computing is going to upend the way IT organizations think about SOA and

Posted: Nov. 20, 2008 11:37 AM

Real time from SOA/Cloud/Virtualization World - Plaques

Hey, we are here in San Jose for SYS-CON's "super connection" show of SOA World / Virtualization Conference / Cloud Computing Expo (and probably a few others). Rajeev is going on in about an hour to talk about "Peeling the Onion" of SOA.I just got do

Posted: Nov. 20, 2008 11:04 AM

SOA in Action Virtual Conference Preview - Panel tomorrow

I recently had a chance to talk with Peter Schoof at eBizQ about the upcoming SOA in Action Virtual Conference (free signup here) on November 19. You can listen to our discussion and/or read the transcript at this post, The Acceleration of SOA: iTKO

Posted: Nov. 18, 2008 12:19 PM

iTKO Talking at SYS-CON's SOA, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing Event Nov. 19-21, San Jose, CA

SYS-CON Events announced today that more than 40 Cloud technology providers, as well as Virtualization and SOA companies will exhibit at the upcoming First International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo on November 19-21, in San Jose, California

Posted: Nov. 18, 2008 05:43 AM

LISA Eclipse Edition released - TVV in the IDE

Developers are increasingly being asked to provide more test coverage, and design more testability into the components they are delivering to the business. So why not provide a side-by-side way to code and build apps - and - create and execute tests

Posted: Nov. 11, 2008 10:01 PM