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If you follow my blog, you know that I've a bad attitude towards Apple's gear, even though (or just because?) I've been an Apple user for three years now. I've been frustrated by a) lack of support for Java updates,...
This morning I've been really surprised when I read the newsletter from Javoxx (former JavaPolis) and learnt that the belgian guys had to change again their name, because even Javoxx was a trademark problem for Sun lawyers. Boys, this is...
Varun Nischal, one of the fresh new members of the NetBeans Dream Team, is hosting some friends on his blog. I've just published a small story about the NetBeans Profiler used in remote mode....
jrawio is an ImageI/O plugin for "camera raw" image formats. I've started writing it a few years ago for my Nikon D100, and later extended it for working with a larger number of formats. As far as I know, it...
While aiming at blueMarine 1.0 for the end of the year, the effort is being put not only to stability and performance, but also on cleaning up the APIs in order to have a polished and stable version that others...
This is not a technical post, but a service communication for people that might have contacted me recently.During August I've experienced two crashes of Mail, the latter a few days ago and the worst one, since it happened while the...
While I should be officially on vacation since ten days, some job troubles have pursued me for a few days. Nevertheless, working in an enjoyable environment definitely boosts your productivity. In these days I'm pushing hard on fixing bugs and...
If you have read comments to my previous posts, you should have understood what happened. For people not reading them, I'm posting a recap. For details, please refer to previous posts.In a few words, I've discovered that running my application...
A few days before the summer break, at JUG Genova I was able to attend one of the most amusing meetings of the year. Gianpaolo Melis showed how to control NASA World Wind with a Wii remote control (not used...
After fixing my trivial but severe error described in my previous post, other problems occurred with OpenJDK and blueMarine.One turned out to be a third party library (svgSalamander) using some com.sun.* classes - this has been fixed by replacing it.
Here is the fifth conversation I had with money manager Andrew Horowitz. This was recorded immediately after the second McCain-Obama debate. A good discussion on the 500 point drop…. new insights for anyone who invests in anything. What to do? This chat is not produced and presented as-is for anyone who wants to listen [...]
Seattle has has a heck of a tech scene, but isn’t so big that the community breaks down into cliques and haters as Silicon Valley does in the boom times. Maybe that’s why I spend so much time up here.
Like other tech hubs, successful Seattle entrepreneurs tend to become angel investors and help the next crop of companies come of age. An example: Pressplane, which recently announced a long list of Seattle angels.
Now those angels are getting a little more organized by investing in the
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
One of our partners, Sun Microsystems, has an excellent collection of blogs. Sun's News Blog has a list of some of these blogs around Sun including Jonathan Schwartz’s blog & other senior executives. Jonathan is Sun's President and COO and he was one of the first senior executives to start a personal blog. He recently shared a memo he sent to Sun’s leader about the role of technology in helping with the current economic crisis, Innovation Loves a Crisis. He writes that many busines
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 *nearly* as much as this book does, though I guess it may be excusable, because one of its authors, Rob Brunner, worked there (though, he worked there when Jobs wasn’t there, so take that as you will).
Anyway, I’m compelled to blog because w
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
If you're interested in how formats and protocols evolve on the web, you might want to listen to Steve Gillmor's interview of Chris Messina on yesterday's Gillmor Gang.
I used to do roughly what Chris does, but I got tired of all the kitchen sinks being thrown at me because of my success from people who work at big tech companies. They have all kinds of techniques for thwarting success, but one simple motive, as I've come to understand it.
All big tech companies are basically the same inside, t
… was the catchy snappy hip punchy title of our contribution to this year’s BPMI (aka OMG) Think Tank 2008’s RoundTable sessions. These are used to get feedback from end-users, consultants and indeed other vendors on a variety of issues - which in this case was the role of Complex Event Processing and business events in BPM (aka BPMN models).
For a warm-up, Jim Sinur (Gartner) gave a keynote covering “The Economics of Business Process”, explaining that businesses sh
I recently installed the new Windows File Explorer for the SMEStorage platform. It provides a windows based file manager for Amazon S3 and allows you to upload / download files as well as allowing you to easily file sharing by just clicking a button. It also allows you to share files and collaborate with any business groups you have setup.You of course need to have registered for a SMEStorage account to use it. You can either use your own Amazon Account via their OpenS3 program or use SMEStor
Roberto Polillo has scanned and posted stunning black and white photos of jazz greats he took in the early to mid 1960s. (Disclosure: I had dinner at his home last night. Thanks, Roberto!)
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.
Access Amazon's SimpleDB via a Java class that has no other dependencies or external libraries. Code as it should be. Uncomplicated and works.Leave CommentRelated Entries:Cloud Bootcamp announced, learn what all the fuss is aboutAmazon's EC2 now with WindowsFrom deep within the bowels of SUNAmazon S3 suffers an 8hr outage; Trust no oneWindows 3.1 on a Nokia N810Speaking at CloudCamp LondonA simple Java API class for Amazon SimpleDBjava.lang.InternalError at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getR
I posted an entry called "What You Can Learn From Hollywood" over at the American Express small business blog. I derived these lessons from the work of Scott Kirsner. He studied the movie industry and ended up writing a book called Inventing the Movies: Hollywood's Epic Battle Between Innovation and the Status Quo, from Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs
If you are in the San Francisco Bay area (or not too far away), then make sure to check out Flash Camp this weekend, being held in the Adobe San Francisco office by the Flash team.
This is an all weekend event that will go in depth over the new Flash Player 10 and Flash Authoring features. Its a great chance to get up to speed really quickly on all of the new APIs and features, as well as hang out and have a few beers with the Flash team.
Plus, everyone attending will get a Free copy of Flash CS
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
Inventor invent things. What a revelation! But the thing is that often they invent things just for the sake of inventing things. Take a look at this mini motel for travellers that got stranded and have to sleep in the airport or other . Visualize yo
Today on http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/ Apple decided to drop the Non Disclosure Agreement for the Official iPhone SDK for all registered developers.On the website Apple stated... "We put the NDA in place because the iPhone
The whole Stack Overflow team got together in person at Fog Creek's shiny new office in New York City for a roundtable discussion about the future of StackOverflow.com, which is up as this week's podcast.
Shanah Tovah u-Metuka!
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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 [...]
Fareed Zakaria: Palin Is Ready? Please.. Has a presidential candidate ever announced a new running mate this late in the game? If not, there's always a first time!
Sep. 28, 2008 08:19 PM
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