Bill Miller wrote: Good article. Data Services is a great place to get value from SOA, and a great place to begin moving toward SOA. There are great open source tools for building SOA data services, including XAware.org. Bill Miller, XA...
Robert Morschel wrote: My mouth is watering already, though you do have to wonder at anything that claims to be a "lightweight Enterprise SOA Platform" ;-)
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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. IR
I’m reading Do You Matter? How Great Design Will Make People Love Your Company. In theme and topic, it’s *very* similar to Subject to Change, which mostly makes me grateful that we published first. We also don’t reference Apple *nea
I am speaking at UI13 in a couple of weeks, and have been mulling on what I should talk about. I’ve decided on a talk tentatively titled “16 Challenging Steps to Becoming a Customer-Experience-Driven Organization.” The point being,
Something I hadn’t realized until now is that Jules et Jim (perhaps my favorite Truffaut film) has been on my Tivo for two years now (don’t ask). I first saw the film in college, and what I remembered most was Oskar Werner’s remarka
While on family leave, I’m looking for things to watch and listen to, since I often have my hands full and cannot read. TiVo is moderately helpful, but I’m finding I need more, so I’ve been poking around looking for interesting thin
Among the challenging decisions new parents must make is the name of their child. It’s a lifetime commitment, and not something to be taken lightly.
We very quickly settled on his middle name, Joseph. It’s my dad and brothers’ middl
(I started writing this before the birth of our son. So the timing is a little off)
This weekend I devoured Reading Comics, a book of comics criticism by Douglas Wolk. (Thank goodness for the library — I would have felt like a schmuck had I pai
This morning, nearly 2 weeks before he was due, our son was born. (He doesn’t have a name yet (we’re still deciding), so we’re calling him Baby. We may still call him Razputin, his in utero name.)
Stacy amazed the staff with the sp
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been fascinated by the ascension of TED as a media brand. TED began in 1984, and for the longest time was an exclusive confab for the smarterati, overseen by its host, curator, and Buddha-figure, Richard Saul
This is obvious, but it’s worth pointing out, because I think it will be the crux of how Twitter defines its revenue potential. Last week, I tried to find out where I could watch Obama’s acceptance speech. CNN.com had it chunked up (IR
Apple has released a statement that may affect those of you with newer MacBook Pro’s with Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT graphics cards. Said graphics cards have been known to be faulty and may cause video to be scrambled or distorted. Mine is doing just fine - BTW.
In July 2008, NVIDIA publicly acknowledged a higher than normal failure rate for some of their graphics processors due to a packaging defect. At that same time, NVIDIA assured Apple that Mac computers with these graphics processors were n
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
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 has the worlds soundest banking system, closely followed by Sweden, Luxembourg and Australia, a survey by [...]
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
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.
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
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!
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
The October edition of the Harvard Business Journal has a contributed article by Intuit co-founder Scott Cooke on how to build your business using communities. I thought it interesting that he used many of the standard “crowd-sourcing” examples like Skype and Wikipedia but no open source software examples. Given Intuit’s proprietary nature I guess I [...]
