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Six weeks ago we launched an API for our technology database, CrunchBase. The idea was to give away lots of clean, structured data about the companies we cover, data that could be used to build new services and improve upon existing ones. Since then we’ve seen a number of impressive things built on top of the API. And the traffic has started to add up: between July 15th and August 15th we fulfilled nearly 800,000 API requests, compared to ~1.3m page views for the website itself. We now h
11-month-old Baby Weighs 62 Pounds!
1. It certainly was creative and thought-stimulating. 2. However... it shows McCain thought he was losing to Obama and needed to do something bold that would stir things up. And he certainly did that. 3. However... no matter how well they vetted her, even if nothing terrible shows up, she has no experience in the world, and virtually no experience in the United States. What does she know about American cities? Our industries and businesses? Economic issues? Balance of trade? The military? Katri
In September I’m heading to Germany to present to the German PowerBuilder user group. I’m also working on arrangements to go back over to Europe in November for other locations as well, including (hopefully), England and Switzerland. If
One of the cool things about FXG is that it works with Flex data-binding just as your would expect it to. Below is a simple example (which requires Flash Player 10 RC), followed the code, that shows data-binding with FXG and Flex 4: As you can see, there are still some bugs in the rendering, but that is to be expected as these are very early Flex 4 builds. Source <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="library:adobe/flex/halo"
In this post, I take a fairly objective look at Vista to date, in light of recent efforts to clean up Vista's image by Microsoft including Seinfeld and Mojave.
Those who are not convinced won’t be convinced. Those who are convinced are struggling to remember similar moments. [Tags: obama dnc08 politics ]
I've been using the JS-Kit widgets for comments and ratings for this blog, and I'm really happy with them. JS-Kit commenting provides very effective ways to fight and delete spam, and I love that people can create avatars for their comments. The star-rating that you see is also from the company. JS-Kit is installed on 550,000 blogs and has already managed 75 million comments. It powers major sites like eVite, Sun Microsystems, InfoWorld, JetBlug, and Experian. If it can handle icanhascheezbur
In past 'Mashups in Action' blog we have described mashups used in intelligence analysis, medical research, and most recently a dual-purpose community-building/data-sharing effort for a scientific community. So mashups can help make better spies, better doctors and better scientists. But other than the occasional flu shot, I don't expect most of us have much exposure to these professions.Today's Mashup In Action story is about trading, a profession you have better odds of encountering in yo
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
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
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
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
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
They were amazing at the Outside Lands Festival yesterday.
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
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
The International Sybase User Group (ISUG) have announced that they now have an electronic version of the ISUG Technical Journal is now available online ...
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
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
A list of project adaptations required to produce zero-errors reports with PMD and FindBugs while keeping the code fully compliant with J2EE 5.
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
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
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.
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ISUG eJournal
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PB.Net Award
The VisualStudio Magazine recently held a reader's choice award for over 400 products and services - with PowerBuilder coming on strong ...
PB 11.5 Launch
Sybase as announced that the latest version of their RAD .Net development tool known as PowerBuilder will be released on September 12, 2008. ...
Record 2008 Q2
For the secod quarter in a row, Sybase has now reported record earnings after capping off 2007 with their first billion dollar year. ...
ISUG Web Site
The International Sybase User Group (ISUG) is excited to announce that their web site has been significantly updated! ...
ISUG Web Site
The International Sybase User Group (ISUG) is excited to announce that their web site has been significantly updated! ...
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Foundation Classes - PK 2.5.1
Software Tool &Die Inc. is pleased to announce that they have released their STD Foundation Classes written for PocketBuilder 2.5.1 GA ...
Foundation Classes - PK 2.5.1
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