Cecilia wrote: This article helped me focus on the field I wanted which was a user requirement. I noticed that it was written in 2000. This proves that good writing never goes out of style.
I would also like the user to go to the...
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In conversations and on mailing lists addressing the design of interactive media, I’ve found myself growing uneasy with just how little understanding most people practicing in the field have of how they are influenced by the various theories th
Last night’s The Daily Show featured an interview with eternal optimist Thomas Friedman. In it, Friedman argues that the way forward is through investment and innovation in the energy industry. He even promotes an “energy bubble,” s
Barack’s election is a big deal. Something I had meant to post before tonight, but hadn’t gotten around to, was a realization I had about the 4 candidates for the two highest offices. For the first time in memory, all four candidates were
Some folks ask me what’s been the biggest difference in my life now that I have a child. For a while, it was hard to say what was because of the child, as I was on leave from work for 6 weeks, and bought a house. Now that I’ve been back t
Back in February, it had 90000 views, but as of today, my slidecast (combination of slideshow with audio track) “Experience is the Product” has just passed 250000 views, making it the most popular slidecast on Slideshare (and the 7th most
The success of eBay has long been a thorn in the side of user experience professionals, because it’s design is just so obviously flawed. I referenced this in a post a few years back, “One of the most annoying realities of a user experienc
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
I knew, going into 2008, it was going to be a liminal year for me. And, boy howdy, has it proven true! This year, I:
had a book I co-wrote published
got married (twice!)
hired a CEO to steer the company I started
oversaw the largest event Adaptive Pa
As I emerge from my new fatherhood cave, I’m heading to Cambridge, MA next week for Jared Spool’s UI 13 Conference. I’ll be around for a few days, and would love to catch up with local folks who want to talk experience design. IR
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 *nea
For years, people have been turning to the web to ask perfect strangers for advice. But while largely anoymized services like Yahoo Answers have proven to be hugely popular, there’s something to be said for getting advice from people you actually know. Last month we wrote about Aardvark, a social search engine in private beta built by The Mechanical Zoo that distributes your searches across your social graph for quick, highly accurate results that are likely more credible than what you&
Last week at IBM Montpellier the upcoming OSGi 4.2 release got a bit closer, and Yan Pujante presented LinkedIn's requirements.
Peter can't believe what Yan is saying... !
In the now usual pattern for a two-day expert group face to face, the first day was given to the core platform expert group (CPEG) and the second day to the enterprise expert group (EEG).
Neither can the rest of us...!
The work to produce the enterprise edition of the OSGi specifications is roughly divided between th
I recently had a chance to
talk with Peter Schoof at eBizQ about the upcoming SOA in Action Virtual
Conference (free signup here) on November 19. You can listen to our discussion and/or read the
transcript at this post, The
Acceleration of SOA: iTKO Explains.
I mentioned here we had a
very productive SOA governance conference last month with John Michelsen
sitting on that panel ??? see SOA Governance Panel Recap: Federated SOA for the Day.
We had a lot of good questions as a result but they're
Last night's 60 Minutes interview with the Obamas was great. Sometimes our next President comes off wonky and tired, and other times, like last night -- human, warm, smart, even funny.
There were a lot of memorable moments, and a great sense that this is an extrordinary person, who knows how special he is, but is also very humble. They talked about how his old car had holes in the floor (he called it the air conditioning) and it was how he knew his wife loved him (the holes were on her side of
The Smothers Brothers was a comedy act that came out of the folk music revival in the 60s. They had a successful variety show on CBS. The network occasionally censored the show, which radicalized Tom Smothers. When you tell a comedian he can't do something, it is likely that you will motivate him to do it more. Eventually, the show became so combative with the network and the establishment that CBS yanked the show mid season. In retrospect, that stuff looks pretty tame, so
We will have some out each day at the Adobe booth at MAX.
fyi, I am going to mail some of these out next week (along with updated AS3 RIA Guides). Ill post more info next week on my twitter account.
Some people seem to be quite surprised to find that TIBCO BusinessEvents, classed as a Complex Event Processing product, includes a “rule engine”. Especially those that look at the CEP tools market and just see the stream-based CEP products doing continuous queries. Nonethless, there are good reasons why a production rule engine is ideal not just for business decisions, but also event filtering and correlation.
First, lets classify “rules” and “production rules̶
HTML 5 Websockets and the K team's open source project Kaazing Gateway reaches India and the India developer community. Sidda Eraiah will be presenting 2 sessions @ IndicThreads Conference 2008, Pune, India:
How to build an enterprise trading solution using HTML 5’s WebSockets
The Future of the Web: HTML 5, WebSocket, Java and Comet
Sidda has also written a very nice article for IndicThread on Comet, Websockets, and Server-sent Events. The article provides a 4 step mini-howto on WebSoc
On Sunday morning, I got my two conference badges – one for Press and the other one as a Speaker. Each of those gives an access to special receptions or meetings with Adobe big shots, and I don’t want to miss any of those.While wait
In conversations and on mailing lists addressing the design of interactive media, I’ve found myself growing uneasy with just how little understanding most people practicing in the field have of how they are influenced by the various theories that undergird are standard practice. I think it can be problematic that so people are working in the context of these theories don’t understand how the theories’ assumptions are coloring their approaches.
What do I mean by theory? Theory i
I bought my wife a Nokia 5310 MusicExpress phone recently. She had used the 6210i for a long time and wanted something that had the same ease of use but that was slim, had a radio, and allowed her to play music. The 5310 was ideal. My wife has a Mac and as per normal the phone was not supported on iSync, the built-in Mac device syncing service. You can add the 5310 to isync by downloading a package to provide the device with isync here
I have received a note from Mike Card that I would like to share with you. Please note that the registration link sent by Mike (see below) is not yet active...."The OMG is hosting an Object Database Standard Definition Scope meeting in Santa Clara, CA at the Hyatt Regency on Tuesday afternoon, December 9th. The purpose of this meeting will be to define what the scope of the new object database standard should be.We have already done some work in this area but more remains to be done. Our goal is
HTTPS Tunneling, also called HTTPS Proxy, SSL proxy, or SSL tunneling, refers to sending HTTPS content via a proxy server. This is a very common usage scenario over the web.
Unfortunately, I have not found any Java server that supports this yet. Tomcat chokes up quickly if you tunnel HTTPS messages. Other Java servers don’t even come close. Jetty is the furthest and closest to supporting it. Greg Wilkins even wrote two examples showing Jetty’s proxy support (ProxyServlet and Asy
ICANN has opened up the process for gTLD. I’m certain that we’ll now finally see .mac and .msn. The application process looks grueling, and the application fee is expected to be a relatively staggerring $185,000, so don’t expect to see .dojo, .sitepen, or .dylan any time soon.
That said, if someone wants to set up .lan, I’ll be first in line to pay for dy! For now, I’ll stick with dylan.io.
Unaltered from an email going around:
One sunny day in 2009 an old man approaches the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue where he’s been sitting on a park bench. He speaks to the U.S. Marine standing guard: “I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.” The Marine looks at the man: “Sir, Mr. Bush no longer is president, and no longer resides here.” The old man says, “Okay,” and walks away.
The
I came across this interesting post: How Mashups Could Eliminate Integration Projects by Loraine Lawson. In a related post, she refers to John Crupi's article Enterprise Mashups Part I: Bringing SOA to the People which I would recommend to readers who want to understand JackBe's take on defining mashups. Anyway, Loraine's post led me to Ron Schmelzer's ZapFlash. Here are some excerpts of Ron's article that caught my eye, with my take on them.Excerpt from ZapFlash:A year or two ago, assuming tha
** Hot News ** Sybase has garnered various prestigious product awards in the MobileVillage - 2008 Mobile Star Awards! These awards have been given out since 2002 and represent the "users choice&
I’m giving a presentation on “Top 10 Software Engineering Concepts” at a CompAid “Software Best Practices” conference in Chicago on November 13th. I hope you’ll be there in person to hear all the nuances; but if you’re stuck in some other part of the world, you’re welcome to download the (10 megabyte) PDF version of the presentation, which has a whole bunch of embedded links to other presentations, publications, books, articles, Websites, etc.
In this week's Stack Overflow podcast, Jeff and I talk about video games, programming languages that aren't "in" English, and hiring great programmers.
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My 2nd book, Ruby on Rails Bible, was released on October 6th.
It is now available through your local bookstores, and online
at
Amazon.com
and other online book sellers. Another Rails author,
Noel Rappin
, also contributed content to this book.
We’re going to be moving the enerjy.com site, including the Software Integrity blog, to a new server over the next couple of weeks. So if the site is unavailable for a while, we haven’t gone anywhere, we’re just moving things around. Email should not be affected by the change and you can always reach us at contactus@enerjy.com for support or other questions.
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In this tutorial, I walk you though the process of upgrading your Silverlight Live Mesh application to be able to store and retrieve data using DataFeeds and DataEntries
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