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The Asus works
I brought both my trusty but big 17-inch MacBook Pro and the tiny Asus Eee PC. I was hoping the Asus would be up to being my sole reporting notebook, that I wouldn't have to lug both computers with me from event to event. I was concerned that the ke
Posted: Aug. 28, 2008 12:56 PM
Bill Clinton got it back
First a disclaimer, I didn't like Bill Clinton as President. But over time my feelings toward him mellowed, and I gave him full credit for inspiring the Democrats to give Rove & Co hell in the 2006 election, winning back control of Congress. No doubt
Posted: Aug. 28, 2008 12:46 PM
The community system for DEMO
When I was in Boulder on Sunday, David Cohen and Brad Feld, the organizers of TechStars, kindly set up four meetings for me with Boulder startups they thought I'd find interesting. It was great fun! Bright motivated people with big ideas, the discuss
Posted: Aug. 28, 2008 06:04 AM
Arrest Bush
Posted: Aug. 27, 2008 10:48 AM
MP3s of DNC speeches?
David Morrison, via email: "I've been reading your site for a few years now, and couldn't think of anyone else to ask this question to. Are there any feeds or releases of the Democratic Convention speeches in just audio format. I'm traveling out of
Posted: Aug. 27, 2008 12:39 AM
Anti-abortion protest at DNC
As we were going into the DNC this afternoon our path was blocked by a crowd of police, press and a handful of protestors and priests. #1: Roe v Wade survivor. #2: Protestors. #3: Arrests.
Posted: Aug. 26, 2008 04:53 PM
This is a HAPPY convention
Just got a comment from Mark Dzmura saying that Fox and CNN are reporting that there is racial discord at the DNC, and I want to say that's absolutely not true. It's bright and sunny and hot in Denver and eveyrone here, including the Hillary people,
Posted: Aug. 26, 2008 02:31 PM
Evening pictures
I walked through a door I shouldn't have and all of a sudden I'm walking around among all these famous politiicans and news people. Only got a good picture of John Kerry, and a movie of Sean Hannity and a movie of John Kerry. I also uploaded a movie
Posted: Aug. 25, 2008 10:48 PM
FriendFeed updates
I'm sitting in the nosebleeds at Pepsi waiting for Jimmy Carter to speak, and then FriendFeed releases its new beta. Good timing! Gives me something to do while the speakers go on and on and... Not sure what to do with the sub-lists feature, that's g
Posted: Aug. 25, 2008 07:56 PM
First Biden appearance in Denver
I was walking on 16th St in Denver at noon and saw that there were a lot more people on the street than there had been a few minutes before; all walking in the same direction, fast, reporters with TV crews. And cops, and then down Larimer we could se
Posted: Aug. 25, 2008 05:35 PM

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As I mentioned the other day, the Flex team has released a ton of information on Flex 4. One of the new features which I am most excited about is the FXG graphic format being developed. What is FXG? From the spec: FXG 1.0 describes an XML-based graphics interchange format for the Flash Platform. FXG contains high-level graphical and text primitives that can be used to create, group, transform and visually modify basic vector and bitmap shapes. The FXG rendering model follows very closely the Fl
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Here’s a quick video by the Massachusetts Republicans about the opening up of a McCain campaign office in Boston, complete with an optimistic “Victory Wall” that is likely to seem at best ironic on election eve. It’s tough being a Republican in Massachusetts, but everyone’s entitled to, well, hope. [Tags: mccain republicans politics obama ]
Aug. 28, 2008 02:51 PM
ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors
ABC News: ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors — This is not as outrageous as Chicago in 1968 but it does show the weird complicity of the cops, politicos and the Brown Palace Hotel — a place I do not recommend. Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as [...]
Aug. 28, 2008 02:33 PM
The Asus works
I brought both my trusty but big 17-inch MacBook Pro and the tiny Asus Eee PC. I was hoping the Asus would be up to being my sole reporting notebook, that I wouldn't have to lug both computers with me from event to event. I was concerned that the keyboard would prove too small for writing, and that the Windows-based tools would prove too unfamiliar, but I'm happy to report that the Asus performed like a champ. The MacBook stayed at home during the DNC, and my load was light, with just the tiny
Aug. 28, 2008 12:56 PM
StackOverflow Podcast #19
This week's StackOverflow Podcast is up: episode 19. Jeff and I spent some time talking about the home page for StackOverflow. What goes there? What does it mean to vote on a question? We also talked about Aaron Swartz's article on How to Launch Software. Big-bang launches can be disasters (viz.: cuil); quiet, gentle launches without announcements where you slowly build can work a lot better (viz.: Gmail). Will StackOverflow's launch overwhelm our servers and underwhelm our audience? Not
Aug. 28, 2008 10:02 AM
It's alive!!! VS 2008 SP1 is up and running!
Just when I thought I was at the point of no return and was looking for my Vista media to reformat my drive, Microsoft fixed the issue!
Aug. 28, 2008 08:05 AM
The Power of Red
The Pope dons red Prada kicks, politicians break out red ties in election season and that darn Netflix package always seems to stand out in a crowd of manilla and ivory mail. Why red? Do humans have a penchant for the rainbow’s most fiery color? This study released in 2005 discovered that red-clad athletes out-performed competitors donning blue uniforms and suggested that the win discrepancy occurred because of an innate association of red with dominance and assertiveness. New research goe
Aug. 27, 2008 05:03 PM
LINQ is the best option for a future Java query API
A conversation with Mike Card.I have interviewed Mike Card on the latest development of the OMG working group which aims at defining a new standards for Object Database Systems.Mike works with Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC) and is involved in object databases and their application to challenging problems, including pattern recognition. He chairs the ODBT group in OMG to advance object database standardization.R. Zicari: Mike, you recently chaired an OMG ODBTWG meeting, on June 24, 2008
Aug. 27, 2008 03:26 PM
Intermediating ESBs for SOA: The Final Webinar?
OK, sorry to mix metaphors, but it is time to put this can of worms to bed (???). If you've been following this blog you couldn't help but notice the many posts on the apparent ESB vs. SOA controversy. All of this started with an innocent little interview John did for SearchSOA - where the topic of Intermediating multiple ESBs came up. This article created a tornado of posts from some heavy hitters on SOA topics over the last month. Given all of that, we decided to have our own little webinar o
Aug. 26, 2008 10:01 PM
Early Draft OSGi V4.2 Docs Available
As of this week you can download an early release draft document containing 11 design documents we've been working on for the past year or so as the result of the OSGi enterprise initiative. This is important because according to OSGi Alliance rules, only members are allowed access to working drafts of documents. This is the first time we've released any of these drafts publicly. As a board member and EEG co-chair, I'm very pleased to see this happen because (a) I often get asked about what's
Aug. 26, 2008 06:20 PM
New entry-level version of XMLSpy launched today
I'm very excited to announce that we've launched a new low-cost version of our award-winning XML Editor today: the XMLSpy Standard Edition is an entry-level XML Editor that packs some of the most frequently-used features of the higher-level editions into a product that is ideally suited for basic XML editing tasks, such as XML configuration file changes, twiddling with RSS feeds, viewing XML output from applications, writing small XSLT stylesheets, and for learning XML. XMLSpy Standard Edition
Aug. 26, 2008 07:43 AM
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
They were amazing at the Outside Lands Festival yesterday.
Aug. 26, 2008 03:19 AM
TV you gotta watch: Slings and Arrows
I know I’m quite late to this, but I also know this show is remarkably obscure, and was released on DVD only towards the end of last year, I think. Slings and Arrows depicts the trials and tribulations of the New Burbage Theater company as it handles strange times on the stage. It’s definitely not an obvious ratings winner — it’s Canadian, erudite, and rewards a knowledge of The Bard that I’m sure I lack. But it’s remarkably good television (and I have Tim Go
Aug. 24, 2008 11:27 PM
Teaching a one-day class at 360|Flex Camp in NJ in September
360Flex got a little brother now. It’s called 360|Flex Camp. The first camp will take place in a month in New Jersey.  I knew this for a while but kept a secret - folks from New Jersey Flex Users Group had to take care of logistics of the
Aug. 23, 2008 06:34 AM
ISUG eJournal
The International Sybase User Group (ISUG) have announced that they now have an electronic version of the ISUG Technical Journal is now available online ...
Aug. 20, 2008 01:12 PM
CEP vs. BRE - A TIBCO TTL (Top Ten List)
My colleague, Paul, got lots of… let’s call it, “feedback” regarding his post on the impending demise of the standalone Business Rule Engine (BRE) Market. It seems there are lots of folks out there who feel quite passionate about the subject, so I thought I would continue, albeit from a different angle and relate it back to the CEP and BusinessEvents for comparison. So… taking my cue from David Letterman and with a tip o’ the hat to Paul, here are the: Top
Aug. 19, 2008 07:01 PM
Flex Builder 3.01 and Flex SDK 3.1 released
With no fanfare, or even mention on adobe's website, Adobe has officially released Flex Builder 3.01 and the Flex SDK 3.1.  Prior to the 3.01 release of flex builder, developers building AIR 1.1 applications had to go through a series of ext
Aug. 18, 2008 06:11 PM
FindBugs and PMD applied on J2EE 5
A list of project adaptations required to produce zero-errors reports with PMD and FindBugs while keeping the code fully compliant with J2EE 5.
Aug. 17, 2008 02:40 PM
Razor Profiler - An Automated JavaScript Profiling Tool
Razor Profiler (beta), an online Ajax profiling tool, is available for public review now at http://www.razorspeed.com. What Is it? Razor Profiler(beta) is a web-based Ajax profiling tool to help web developers understand and analyze the runtime behavior of their JavaScript code in a cross-browser environment. Razor Profiler can be access either online as a service; or be downloaded to run locally. Some Razor Profiler screen shots are shown below: .imageLis
Aug. 16, 2008 10:47 PM
Friday - Trip home from TechWave
Only thought it was worth mentioning because of the weather. I’m driving back because I’m just going to LA. It takes a long to drive to Vegas from my house as it does to fly, and driving is (IMHO) more convenient. It’s 106 degrees
Aug. 14, 2008 11:47 PM
Twitter kills inbound SMS to UK.....
I received an email in my Inbox today to say that Twitter had killed off inbound SMS updates to the UK.The whole raison d’etre for my subscribing to and using Twitter was to get real-time updates. If I have to login to a Twitter app then what’s the point ? It’s no better, and actually worse than reading RSS. The guys at Twitter twitter on about it being costly, yada yada yada. Well they knew this when they started the service. The challenge for their exec team was to
Aug. 14, 2008 09:34 AM
Harmony
Brendan Eich compared me to Yoda, and then to Gandalf. More recently, Mark Miller compared me to Henry Fonda because the meetings of the TC39 (the group that maintains the ECMAScript standard) played a lot like a prison theater production of 12 Angry Men.
Aug. 13, 2008 08:04 PM
160+ TechWave Thank you's
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An applet, a Java program that runs in a browser, often has to access the client resources. However,...
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The Role of Event-Driven Architecture in Business Applications
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SYS-CON Webcast - Now Playing: Desktop Apps in the Browser!
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AJAX isn’t just for rich UIs and mashups anymore. Web 2.0 has infiltrated the enterprise workforce...
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Blog-City.com Founder Alan Williamson to Present at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo
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As a solution provider it is vitally important you don't get locked into a specific vendor’s solut...
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SYS-CON Webcast - Enterprise Comet: Real-Time, Real-Time, or Real-Time Web 2.0?
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As much as we like the term real-time, it has over time become too saturated to lend itself any use ...
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DataCore Incorporates Emulex HBAs Into Storage Virtualization Solutions
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DataCore announced that it has integrated the latest generation of Emulex high speed 8Gb/s Fibre Cha...
Aug. 28, 2008 10:06 AM  Reads: 142
Who is Technology's Highest Paid CEO?
By SOA World Magazine News Desk
Technology's highest paid CEO currently is also America's highest paid CEO, namely Larry Ellison of ...
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Virtualization, SOA, and the Rise of Social Media
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At Hummer Winblad we often joke that we focus on the "boring side of software." By this we mean that...
Aug. 28, 2008 06:55 AM  Reads: 379
Themes & Topics at SYS-CON's 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo
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From Composable Services and Facelifting SOA to Real-Time SOA Systems and SOA For Parallel Computing...
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SYS-CON Events, producer of Cloud Computing Expo 2009 East, to be held March 22-24, 2009, in New Yor...
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President & CTO of 3Tera to Speak at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo
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Achieving an effective disaster recovery solution has always been difficult and expensive. Often com...
Aug. 28, 2008 04:40 AM  Reads: 211
SYS-CON Webcast - The Art & Science of SOA: How Governance Enables Adoption
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Melding a stable enterprise architecture with the right level of technical and organization transpar...
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SYS-CON Webcast - Introducing Automated Business Process Discovery: Step #1 To Process Improvement
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In a recent study, CIOs ranked "improving business processes" as their #1 priority for 2008. But the...
Aug. 27, 2008 04:45 PM  Reads: 267
SYS-CON Webcast - Workspace Virtualization: A low-cost, High-performance Approach to Deploying Enterprise Computing
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Desktop and application virtualization technologies are increasingly being used throughout the enter...
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SYS-CON Webcast - The "Practical SOA" Approach
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