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Our English language Dojo book total is now up to at least six, with more books on the way.
Peter Svensson has released Learning Dojo, which includes coverage of the new Dojo grid, and numerous DojoX examples. There’s an example chapter on Lay
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 joini
I was invited to speak at Adobe MAX this year on the topic of Building Desktop Applications Powered by Dojo and Adobe AIR. The talk summarized the key things we’ve learned at SitePen in adding AIR support to Dojo, as well as working on the Doj
I had thought about writing a treatise on why bailouts are bad, but Ron Paul saved me the time with his article that is appropriately called “The Bailout Surge“, a clear poke at the Iraq Surge (emphasis below is mine):
We must remember th
ICANN has opened up the process for gTLD. I’m certain that we’ll now finally see .mac and .msn. The application process looks grueling, and the application fee is expected to be a relatively staggerring $185,000, so don’t expect t
Something weird is going on, because the prices of everything are going down rapidly, including oil, gold, silver, etc. However, this is mainly a reflection of the dollar going up against foreign currency:
Prices of commodities are being crushed. Go
Michael Carter of Orbited recently published a fun and colorful introduction to WebSocket:
I was at first overjoyed at the prospect of the World Wide Web’s new status as a real boy. But such feelings were just a precursor to the greatest technology
Frank Zammetti has released a new Dojo book, Practical Dojo Projects.
I haven’t seen the book yet, so it’s too soon to review, but knowing Frank’s other books, it’s sure to be a great and informative read.
This book follows o
A number of Facebook users are petitioning to keep the old Facebook design. I switched to the new design when I first noticed the option, and it is such a significant improvement over the old design that I would consider switching back to be a bit s
The new iPhone 3G and the iPhone 2.0 software update can best be described as the most successful failure I can remember. Apple has sold an astounding number of phones and applications, and yet is failing in so many different ways:
MobileMe: A terr
Larry Andreini thinks he can take on Pixar. The founder and CEO of Ridemakerz, a rapidly growing chain of stores where boys can custom-build their own toy cars, is building a virtual world for his 6-to-12-year-old customers and their cars. This virtual world is in closed beta right now, and will launch early next year. So will Pixar’s World of Cars and startup Webcarzz (here’s some good background).
There is a gap on the Web between Webkinz and Club Penguin and the more adult so
The finalists have been chosen. Now is your chance to vote for the technology or product that you think is the best in its category. Voting is now underway and will end on Monday, December 15, 2008.
I wonder if Monica can sue for being compared to this woman?
Lewinsky comparison grounds for libel
Comparing a woman to Monica Lewinsky is an egregious enough offense to be grounds for libel, Italy’s high court says.
The Cessation Court ruled Tuesday such is the reputation of the former White House intern for U.S. President Bill Clinton that [...]
This week Jeff and I talk about software piracy, some performance improvements on the site, dealing with criticism, great programmer’s offices, and more, in Stack Overflow Podcast #32.
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Change.gov, the transition site, has moved its content to a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. So, anyone can use it so long as they attribute it back to its source. Very cool.
Open content is, of course, a creativity magnet. Already, apps have sprung up that let you get Change.gov content on your iPhone and as a widget elsewhere.
A government whose first instinct is toward openness! What a difference a mere 69 million votes can make!
Next: Putting government under revision control, as T
TechCrunch: "TechCrunch readers can now use their Facebook accounts to sign in before leaving comments."
Interesting. And it integrates with Facebook's news feed.
I left a comment suggesting they do the same for Twitter, FriendFeed and Identi.ca. Very easy to validate a name with any of those services, though the companies didn't make a big deal about it. I'd like to see some of the smaller developers get a chance to play in league with the big guys. They could also share a pointer to your comm
I’m presenting a talk on “Mashups as an Enterprise 2.0 Strategy” in Rome on December 4, 2008, as one of several speakers covering a wide variety of topics related to Enterprise 2.0. You can download the 3.1-megabyte PDF file by clicking on the icon below; a couple of the slides will seem rather cryptic and mysterious, but if you’re actually attending the conference, then hopefully my verbal presentation will make everything crystal-clear.
While I’ve been here this
** 10 reasons you should be a PowerBuilder developer ** 1) PowerBuilder positively impacts your bottom line. Simply put, PowerBuilder is a smart business decision. Many companies have a significant amount of existing PowerBuilder code (in
The title pretty much sums it up. Have you run into any new issues in Adobe AIR 1.5? Specifically, I am looking for anything that may have worked in AIR 1.1, which no longer works in AIR 1.5.
For example:
SHIFT + SPACE doesn’t work correctly in AIR 1.5, but worked fine in AIR 1.1. (Bug #1932338).
Just post the info in the comments (including OS info), and please leave your email address in case the team needs to get in touch with you for more information. Please keep comments on topic.
Mashups are a popular topic lately, in both IT and business circles. Gartner recently named them a ‘Top 10 IT Technology for 2009’. But if your organization is thinking about ‘getting mashy’, here are five common pitfalls that you can avoid with just a little education and forethought:The ‘Fall for the Buzz’ Mistake: Misunderstanding what a ‘mashup’ is. Everyone wants to be associated with the hot buzzword and mashups are hot. Unfortunately, ‘mashup’ is a term that has al
Our English language Dojo book total is now up to at least six, with more books on the way.
Peter Svensson has released Learning Dojo, which includes coverage of the new Dojo grid, and numerous DojoX examples. There’s an example chapter on Layout available for free.
Leslie Orchard has released the Concise Guide to Dojo. I do not yet know anything about this book, other than knowing that it is on the market and that it weighs in at exactly the same number of pages, 264, as Peter Svensson
I may get more value out of Twitter than anyone else on the planet because I use Twitter as a tool—specifically as a marketing tool—for my website Alltop and my book, Reality Check. If the concept of using Twitter in a commercial manner interests you, keep reading. If it doesn’t, then you can continue to send and receive tweets about how cats are rolling over and the line at Starbucks.
Forget the “influentials.” You must buy into the theory that products and servic
You have most likely heard of the microblogging site,
Twitter.com. Twitter
allows you to create short (160 char limit) frequent posts. Any Twitter user
who chooses to “follow” you will see the messages you post. Twitter now has
over
A 5 year old Russian girl can beat up an 8 year old American boy. I learned this from a red-hating cold war calisthenics instructor who was trying to motivate a bunch of 8 year old televisionlanders at a YMCA summer day camp at the Dad's Club in Houston, Texas. It is sort of exciting to imagine that WWIII would be settled by hand-to-hand combat with girls. The calisthenics instructor invented that fact in order to support his well-intentioned argument. Was that dishonest? No,
TIBCO BusinessEvents 3.0.1 is now shipping. This includes a few niceties for complex event processing needs such as extreme performance and better business control:
More platform support:
x86 platforms can now use Solaris 10 64′, Windows Server 2008 32′ and 64′, Vista 32′
HP-PA-RISC servers can now use HP-UX-11i
Java 6 JVMs
Some Decision Manager and Rule Management Server extensions, for example allowing multiple decision tables to be associated with a “decision
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
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
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
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.
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 [...]
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?
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
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)
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
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...
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