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In catching up with various media after my vacation, I got around to listening to a Busin essWeek Innovation Podcast with graphic design luminary Steven Heller on The Business of Web Design. Given the podcast 217;s title, I w asn’ t at all ready for the conver sation that occurs, wherein Mr. Heller blathers a misguided, outdated, outmoded, and mostly [...]

The recent court order directing Google to hand over data to Viacom about every YouTube video ever watched strikes many people as an absurd overreach of the law into the privacy of anyone who has ever used YouTube (i.e., almost everyone on the Internet). Google should definitely keep fighting the ruling if it can. [...]

I note that a number of programmer s I respect are trying to launch instances of the software behind identi.ca. If they're su ccessful, and if there is a decent way to connect them into a federation (meaning we can com municate even if we're using different hosts), then we're getting somewhere. Is there some place where someone is monitoring the status? A wiki? A discussion thread? I'm not planning on running one until the trail has been well blazed, maybe not even then, but I don't mind helping t

Tim Bray b logsselfev ident.com about the head of ISO pooh-p oohing the concerns about the way that M icrosoft's OOXML document format was strong-arm ed through his organi zation.[Ta gs: standards odf ooxml tim_bray microsoft ]

Next from the Distri buted Event Based Systems co nference: the CQL tutorial by Dieter Gawlick and Shailendra Mishra, covering O racle̵ 7;s version of a continuous query language [*1]. What was intere sting was their defense of the claim that ̶ 0;your database server can do your CEP” [*2], supposedly reinforced by the obs ervation that “you get all the (usual) [...]

BlogSME, the iPhone Blogging a pplication by Th eSMESpace& #160;has been updated. It now supports Twitter as well as adding a & quot;Tagge r" for HTML s ubmissions . It also supports Blogger, WordPress and Movable Type, and of course Blog City, and in fact I am using this now to post this entry. 0; 

One of the ActionScri pt 3 libraries that I use in just about every project I work on is the as3corelib library. This is an ActionScri pt 3 library that contains a lot of useful APIs for working with AS3. I am planning to do some more work the library this week. I spent the morning scrubbing and [...]

Achieving Project success over the last 30 years has been difficult! Reports on various studies released over the last 5 years state as little as 30% of complex projects succeed. Although this number is climbing, very large projects (300 ? 500 man years) have been the least successful in succeed ing, with one report in 2007 [...]

I have a telephone instrument on my desk. I rarely use it. Most of the calls I get are re cruiters, evil telem arketers, and wrong numbers. I mostly communicat e with people using email, im, and the old reliable f2f. The office phone is as useful to me as a typewriter , Lamson tube, or telegraph key.

Last night I made a hands-free call from my new in-dash Pioneer combo GPS/XM radio unit and I was squealing with joy, knowing full well the rest of the world has been doing this for years.

Next week I'll be teachin g  5-day live onlline Flex 3 cou rse.  Students can be located anywhere in the world as long as they are connected to the Internet. During the class, each registered student will be using a sc reen-shari ng tool fo

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Today Linux desktop ma nufacturer Xandros acquired Linspire for an und isclosed amount. Xandros will also be keeping existing e ngineering , support, and key sales employees and long-time Linspire employee and CEO Larry Kettler will be joining the Xandros executive team as the VP of Business D evelopment . While Xandros di dn’t mention their total employee numbers Xandros CEO Andreas [. ..]SHARETH IS.addEntr y({ title: "Xandros Acquires Linspire", url: "http ://sociali zedsoftwar e.com/2008 /07/01/xan dr

SOA is about loosely coupled system int egration . Sorry, I meant to say that SOA is about enabling loosely coupled business processes . On the other hand SOA is about reuse , except that its actually not about reuse . Hang on a minute, SOA is like event ...(read more)

A long time ago, it became fashionabl e, even re commended, to disable menu items when they could not be used. Don't do this. Users see the disabled menu item that they want to click on, and are left entirely without a clue of what they are supposed to do to get the menu item to work. Instead, leave the menu item enabled. If there's some reason you can't complete the action, the menu item can display a message telling the user why. Not loving your job? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great s

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There are a number of tools out there which aspire to make building Rich Internet A pplication s easier. Some of them focus on server side logic, like Oracle. Others focus on a native runtime on the client like Adobe Flex and Microsoft. Still others focus on JavaScript on the client. This includes a lot of what Google does, and companies like WaveMaker. In this article, I take a look a WaveMaker and its vision for building a richer client exp erience.

Thankfully , not the House of Blues. According to the “A to Z of TechWave 2 008″ document, we’r e going over to the Wynn for a perf ormance of Le Reve. Cool, although I personally would have preferred Spamalot.O riginal Entry

I've been just notified that the Italian Ministry for the En vironment has just introduced a 3D viewer of italian ca rtography. The main features are: "fly over the terrain; fluid motion between two points; path tracking; popping up 2D maps related...

I am constantly blown away that the cool winding and twisting of life... I am done the Core Animation book, now just waiting for the iPhone NDA to lift so we can ship it. I started a book on iPhone for the prag's, which is very very fun and cool too. I don't post much here because I spend most of my time on PrEV these days. Thanks for stopping by...

Looking into the contents of PowerBu ilder types is an area that is not well explored by most people. This sample extracts the names and values of an enum eration at runtime.

A recent post from David Hyatt on the www-st yle-list answers my question from April 15th: Will we see CSS variables next?. The short answer is yes! WebKit now has an exp erimental implementa tion of CSS variables: You can test this feature using a WebKit nightly Test cases Thanks to David Hyatt and Daniel Glazman for bringing something to CSS [...]

What would you like to see in the next generation of browsers? Can you help to make the web a slightly better place than where it is today? Various people from the Ajax community have put together a good list of feature requests (a total of over 40), collected at OpenAjax Runtime Task Force . Now [...]

The Eclipse Gannymede release is quickly ap proaching, and it is a great time to learn more about what is happening with Eclipse. Vineet from Architexa is giving an update on Eclipse at the Boston Java Meetup at MIT tonight, and then we are heading over for an informal Boston Eclipse Demo Camp for drinks, [...]