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SELECTED INDUSTRY BLOGS I’ve been hearing a lot about Google’s innovative login feature for the Android phone, but only saw it today for the first time (Loren Feldman, who recently did some video of one, sent a screenshot).
Unlike other phones, which require a four digit number for unlocking, the Android simply puts nine dots arranged in a square on the touch screen, along with the words “draw pattern to unlock.” My understanding is that any pattern can be used as long as it touches at least fou Oct. 13, 2008 02:07 AM | In 2002, I wrote a lengthy response to Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker piece on The Social Life of Paper. Gladwell was addressing a recent book at the time, The Myth of the Paperless Office, and coming to the conclusion, with them, that all this gee-whiz computer technology is not leading to a paperless office, and paper is great, and computers aren’t so great, and hey, you kids, get off my lawn.
Actually, he didn’t say, “hey, you kids, get off my lawn,” but I’v Oct. 12, 2008 05:11 PM | Michelle Malkin has some imagery that shows that there are people with evil imaginations about the Republican candidates, and if the threats are credible the Secret Service should prosecute them to the full extent of the law. If Governor Palin or Senator McCain were hurt or killed because we didn't take action now, it would be a national tragedy the country wouldn't recover from for a long time. (But does she really think Madonna is a physical threat to her candidate?)
There's a world of differe Oct. 12, 2008 03:41 PM | It’s my first time in this country, and I’m looking forward to new discoveries. This week my wife and I are on vacation in Japan. Our friends Dora and Felix have arrived a day earlier. Dora runs a small but very reputable trav Oct. 12, 2008 02:40 PM | Bah, humbug... Oct. 12, 2008 02:30 PM |
I have now written a six part series on software community blogs. This has included some of our larger partners such as Oracle, TIBCO, and Software AG who maintain multiple blogs with a community. I also covered the Agile Commons blog by our partner, Rally. We have some other partners who have excellent individual blogs, or in the case of Infosys, a great collection of blogs. A list can be found in the right side of this blog. Here are three more of them.
dynaTrace is a leader in lifecycl Oct. 12, 2008 01:27 PM | Computers make crossword puzzles slightly easier, but they make acrostics do-able.
Paper-based acrostics are as much fun as re-sorting pied type. Plus, since most of the fun of an acrostic is seeing sense emerge from mere letters, like ships resolving out of fog, solving them electronically removes the penalty for wrong intuitions. And, for me, and I guess for most who indulge in the occasional acrostic, the fun part is watching your brain see words that your reason entirely missed. It feels as Oct. 12, 2008 07:57 AM | Stephen Fry recently published an article on cloud computing. Like many others he got it completely wrong and was describing nothing more than what the Internet is. Cloud computing is not the second coming.
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“A couple of years ago, I went into a big-box shoe store and bought a pair of sneakers. At the checkout counter, the cashier grabbed a can of that bogus silicone spray stores always try to up-sell you. It's supposed to make sneakers shiny and waterproof, but it doesn't seem to do anything.”
From my latest Inc. column: Sins of Commissions
My dad emailed to add:
The same problem arises when you set measurable incentives (money for better test results) in educational policies Oct. 10, 2008 05:34 PM | I've said a lot of times that I don't like scripting languages, and in fact all of my work is currently done in Java. I see it as perfectly fitting my needs, from JME to JEE, through the Desktop. But... Oct. 10, 2008 11:10 AM | Being right doesn't count for much if you can't persuade anyone of that fact. Oct. 10, 2008 11:06 AM | I have switched over to using TextMate for some of my experimentations with ActionScript. I like how lightweight it is, its extensibility, command completion functionality, and ease of setting up new projects. I find it is perfect for quickly testing new code and ideas.
I have put together a couple of bash scripts, which coupled with the ActionScript 3 and Flex TextMate bundles have made working in TextMate a little easier for me.
The first script is called autocompile, which takes a class file Oct. 9, 2008 02:41 PM | The JavaScript language currently does not provide a good way to distinguish between objects and arrays. The typeof operator is broken: It identifies arrays as objects. Comparing a value's constructor property doesn't work because arrays created in a different frame will have a different constructor. There are do-it-yourself tests for arrayness, but they are complicated and unreliable. Mark Miller of The Google, by closely reading the ECMAScript standard, has discovered Oct. 9, 2008 01:22 PM | From the press some of the initial iPhone apps have been getting, it seems that there are going to be quite a few Apple iPhone App Store millionaires this year ! So why not write your own and join the crowd ? Don't know Objective C or XCode - then get learning ! A nice resource is theiphonedevplace , which has many tutorial links now that Apple rescinded their NDA . So what you waiting for ? Get going - beat the credit crunch ! Oct. 9, 2008 10:07 AM | I am delighted to report that we have relaunched our Altova Online Training program today. We've used this hiatus of a few months to completely redesign our training program and incorporate all the feedback that we had received in the past. One of the key requests heard over and over again was that you wanted to be able to consume the training on your schedule and time, rather than having to sign up for a particular class and deal with available seats, time-zone issues, and fitting a 2-3h class Oct. 9, 2008 09:02 AM | I've been to many interesting places, but nothing compares to my twenty-four hour visit to the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy. I hope that you enjoy these pictures and videos. I would be overjoyed if you spotted someone you know in one of them.
Incidentally, this is probably the longest posting in the history of blogging. It contains over 130 photos (I lost count) and five videos. You might question the wisdom of posting this many pictures. After all, I could create Oct. 9, 2008 02:04 AM | One of the more obvious up-and-coming IT “best practices” is the area of “decision management” – as evangelised by James Taylor at Smart Enough Systems – which postulates that separating and managing decisions is as important as managing business processes. In a “conventional event processing” or synchronous SOA world, this means separate “decision services” invoked to make important decisions during automated processes, or prior to BPMN Oct. 8, 2008 11:13 PM | City of London that is... Oct. 8, 2008 06:49 AM | 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 Oct. 8, 2008 12:42 AM | 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 Oct. 7, 2008 02:08 PM | 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 Oct. 7, 2008 09:15 AM | 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. Oct. 7, 2008 07:49 AM | 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 Oct. 6, 2008 07:43 AM | TechWave 2009 will be held at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., Aug. 16-20.Original Entry Oct. 3, 2008 10:17 AM | 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 Oct. 1, 2008 12:28 AM |
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YOUR FEEDBACK  | By Jeff Fisher James Laurence WiIlliams wrote: Of course, DaaS can also stand for "Data as a Service"... is this not a little confusing? | | By Virtualization News Desk Benjamin Wright wrote: Knowing e-discovery is inevitable (and virtualized "hidden" data can come back to haunt), I argue an enterprise can use technology proactively to make its e-records more benign. It can broadcast intent to be lawful and a request that adversaries come forward as early as possible. What do you thi... | | By Eric Novikoff faseidl@myst-technology.com wrote: Despite what many pundits have to say, reliability issues will not be the downfall of cloud computing. Using cloud computing does not mean neglecting to architect solutions that meet their business requirements, including reliability requirements.
I wrote more about this idea here:
Cloud Comp... | | By Gerrit Huizenga Ryan McDermott wrote: I completely agree. A cloud offering designed for enterprise level applications must provide the same redundancy and performance that the operators run their own internal infrastructures on. Terremark's Enterprise Cloud was designed with this in mind and it is backed by an SLA. Check it out at th... | | By Virtualization News Desk wrote: Trackback Added: Fortify Predicts VMware Mega-Patch Move Will Be First Of Many; Fortify Software, specialists in enterprise application security, says that VMWare’s release of a raft of patches this week - referred to many as a mega-patch - is likely to be the first of many such moves as... |
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