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Only two days ago the contact messaging applicatio n Twitter suffered another bout of downtime, leaving some users frustrated and others asking why the platform continues to suffer problems. Twitter started as a side project which I have recently spoken to an individual who is familiar with the technical problems at Twitter as well as the challenges [...]

Do you know widgets? You?ve probably used these shrink-wra pped micro -applicati ons on one website or other. Google has made widgets a staple of their info rmation-fr om-any-sou rce iGoogle interface. Amazon has their ?Pay Now? widget. Yahoo has a nice collection of them. NVidia has one (that is decidely d eveloper-c entric). And they seem to be quite popular with the Facebook crowd. There?s even a widget tra cker/aggre gator: Widgets Lab.But where are they in the enterp rise?Richa rd Monson- Haef

Unbelievab le, Japanese pushers herd people onto trains.

Well, after living with the Iphone for a little while now I am able to offer some thoughts and a whole host of other advice on this wonderful technology device. I'm currently using firmware 1.14. Even Gartner now seems to be onboard &# 160;descri bing the Iphone as a viable corporate device based on the 2.0 software.  Beli eve me, even with the sub 2.0 software, it is.I won't go into details on the device itself, there are plenty of resources on the web that have done this, suffice to

In this next post in my series on peer netwo rking, I explore the possib ility that Windows Live Mesh could represent the next evolution in peer networking and peer a pplication programmin g

Check out this blog entry from esteemed App Dev Blogger Adrian Bri dgewater

I’m giving a p resentatio n at the ITMPI R 20;Softwar e Best Pra cticesR 21; conference in Philade lphia on May 22nd on “ Moving Beyond SEI-CMM Level 1″. Also speaking at the conference are David Herron, on “Mea suring and Monitoring CMMI Process Im provement& #8221;; Bob Lawhorn, on “ Transformi ng IT Management for Dramatic Business S uccessR 21;; and Tim Lister, on “Ris k Management is [...]

Hat's off to David Gergen, who until now I thought was just another empty suit talking head. Turns out he's got some guts. On CNN on Tuesday night he called on Hillary Clinton to reject racist votes. It would cost her nothing now that the racists have finished voting. She complains of sexism at the same time she's been openly enc ouraging people to vote for her because she's white. Gergen says, righ teously, that Hillary could say: "If you want to vote against him because he's black, I don't wan

Earlier this year the Software & Informatio n Industry Associatio n (SIIA) announced finalists in the 2008 Codie awards. The SIIA describes itself as "the principal trade asso ciation for the software and digital content industry." Yesterday the winners were announced. As a cont ributing member of the Adobe ColdFusion 8 QA team, I'm especially proud that ColdFusion 8 won for Best Web Services Solution, a category described as: Best Web Services Solution Awards the solution that best connects di

Continuing my Indian notes&hell ip; I left Jaipur in the morning -  my vacation part is over. Ram took me to the airport, and I gave him good tip for getting me safe and sound thought this Brownian motion called Indian traffic. Up till now, &nb]> Visiting India. Part 3. J aipur.http ://yakovfa in.javadev elopersjou rnal.com/v isiting_in dia_part_3 __bangalor e_is_da_ma n.htmhttp: //yakovfai n.javadeve lopersjour nal.com/vi siting_ind ia_part_3_ _bangalore _is_da_man .htmTue, 20 May 2008 19:21:00 G MThttp://y a

Today a story hit the front page of Slashdot about Matthew Newhall who posted a draft of his novel on the web in late 2005. Eventually it was downloaded over 6000 time and edited by his readers. The book, “Thi cker than Blood̶ 1; is still down loadable under Creative Commons but for sale at Lulu.com (a [...]SH ARETHIS.ad dEntry({ title: "Creative Commons Pu blisher", url: "http ://sociali zedsoftwar e.com/2008 /05/21/cre ative-comm ons-publis her/" });

Science Commons, in its relentless drive for product line expansion (I kid because I love), has posted a white paper proposing a Health Commons. In it, the authors, Marty Tenenbaum and John Wilbanks, lay out the problems and suggest a solution. They write: We are no longer asking whether a ...

I usually don't post just links to others' posts, but the thing I supposed to publish tonight is not ready yet - and I think this new support for JavaScript in NetBeans 6.1 is worth of attention: http://www .netbeans. tv/screenc asts/Demo- of-New-Jav aScript-Ed itor-in-Ne tBeans-IDE -6.1-340 I've basic ally...

Many years ago I created, but never produced, a low-budget children's show called The Jesus The Clown Show. The theme song went like this: Honk your nose if you love Jesus Honk your nose if you love Jesus Honk your nose if you love Jesus He's as good as he can be. Honk your nose if you love Jesus Honk your nose if you love Jesus Honk your nose if you love Jesus He is good enough for me.

I wanted to have an opinion on some critical questions related to Object Databases: Where are Object Database Systems going? Are Relational database systems becoming Object Databases? Do we need a standard for Object Databases? Why ODMG did not succeed? I have therefore interviewe d one of our Experts, Mike Card , on his view on the current State of the Union of object database s ystems.Mik e works with Syracuse Research C orporation (SRC) and is involved in object databases and their applicatio n t

When we started Adaptive Path, we set out to create the kind of services firm we wanted to work for. And much of this was in reaction to common practice in services firms. There are many things we reacted to, but this rant focuses on one thing - how employees are (mis)t reated. One of the things [...]

Come and join me at the Swiss PowerBuild er User Group (SPBUG) meeting in Zurich on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 ...

We've talked a lot in previous posts about how the practice and technology of Virtual ization really has legs -- it keeps moving forward, from hardware v irtualizat ion, virtual test beds, to virtual endpoints, to actually simulating the behavior of the software itself, which we're calling Se rvice-Orie nted Virtu alization (or "SOV" if you need a TLA for it).Now we are seeing the Perfor mance Lab getting into the action on this practice. For interc onnected apps like SOA and serious enterprise integrat

The first page of the preface of this book made me wince! Not because the book is bad, far from it! The immediacy of Scott&# 8217;s insight into the pain of software d evelopment can only come from someone who has been there and experi enced the trials and tribulatio ns of project failure (more than once). I was expecting [...]

While this is crazy: … this makes it bearable:

I recently completed work on an internal S ilverlight app. The project was a blast ? it really reminded me of how coding could be fun again . One of the surprising gaps I found in S liverlight was the inability to get the current user context (e.g. dete rmine...(r ead more)

Novalys is once again holding their annual survey of PowerBuild er users. Once you complete the survey, yo u’ll be allowed to access the results of the survey for the last several ye ars.Origin al Entry

and much to my surprise, the public beta of the flash player 10 is out.  I knew this would be coming before too long, but didnt realize that it would be out so qui ckly.  ; This new version is filled with lots of new features aimed at allowing

Guiness World Record - Sybase and Sun - a PetaByte sized data warehouse. Yes - size DOES matter.

Lots of new toys to play with. You can find all of the informatio n on labs.