Immo Huneke wrote: A well written article, an ingenious solution to a real problem often encountered in testing and a neat answer to those who claim that AOP is just a solution looking for a problem. However, I found only the first five li...
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1) LINUX & OS movement opensource.org
2) JAVA et la ajax & web 2.0 java.sun.com
3) Apache which hos...
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Here's this year's Christmas tree.
Christmas 2008
After all the ice and snow, and the people without power for two weeks tomorrow, let's have a great holiday, and good wishes for everyone.
Last week I attended my last OSGi Board meeting, which was hosted by SAP near Heidelberg. Although I'll remain EEG co-chair, Gordon is replacing me on the board.
As you might imagine, one of the hot discussion items was Sun's recent announcement
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 fir
Sorry for getting this out a bit late, have been on the road the past couple of weeks...
I just wanted to let everyone in the Boston area know we're having the next meeting of the IASA New England chapter next Thursday, October 2 from 5:00pm-8:00pm
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 rul
One of the biggest debates in the software industry is about getting the level of abstraction right. By this I mean a level of interaction with computers higher than binary code or machine language - in other words, anything that presents humans with
It definitely seems like a long time since the process started, but this is about as good an outcome as we could have hoped for.
The number of employees who have both IONA and Progress on their LinkedIn page is probably a couple dozen or even more
Yesterday David Bosschaert and I gave the first demo of the new design for distributed OSGi, based on the current draft of the Enterprise Expert Group's RFC 119, at the OSGi Community Event in Berlin.
Download PDF of Demo Overview
"Demo Dolly" D
I'm sorry to post this so late, but hopefully it's not too late to join the fun, especially if you're in Europe.
The OSGi Community Event is next week, June 11-12, hosted by Deutsche Telekom in Berlin.
There are a lot of interesting topics and sp
Apparently they are still working on the homepage for the New England chapter of IASA, but at least the date and agenda for the initial meeting are set (register here).
The first meeting is set for June 17th from 5-8 pm at the
MOG demo’d the next version of their popular music service to me today, and I was impressed. It combines a best of breed interface with free on demand streaming and a Pandora-like music recommendation engine. The trouble is, it may never launch because only two of the four major music labels are supporting it so far.
MOG has a history of doing cool new things around music. The service today includes a media player plugin that records and analyzes your music habits, a website that has a ded
I was doing a little work on a tool I wrote in April 2007 that pushed RSS content to Twitter, and made a simple enhancement: instead of having a Twitter account reflect the content of a single feed, I made it reflect the content of an arbitrary number of feeds.
This let me do something I've been wanting to do for a while, but never thought of using Twitter for -- I set it up to reflect the content of my blogging friends, people like Doc Searls, Scott Rosenberg, Scoble, Sylvia Paull, Andrew Baro
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Einstein’s brain has its own Wikipedia entry. There is in fact a Wikipedia category for articles about famous body parts. Without referring to that page, what body parts of which individuals do you think deserve their own Wikipedia entries?
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Joe McKendrick recently led an eBizQ panel on Avoiding SOA
Disillusionment. Participants included Chris Harding, The Open Group; Phil
Wainwright, eBizQ and ZDNet; Jignesh Shah, SoftwareAG; David Bressler, Progress
Software; and myself, Chris Kraus, Product Manager, ITKO LISA. The panel audio is
available at this link to the eBizQ panel on Avoiding SOA Disillusionment. You
have to register with eBizQ if you have not done so but it is quick and free. Joe put the term ???disillusionment??? in quot
Starting in 2009 popular, autonomic configuration management tool, Cfengine will be commercially supported by a company formed by Cfengine author, Mark Burgess. Cfengine has a laundry list of brand names that are using their software –AT&T, Bloomberg, IBM, Nokia, and many more. I suspect that many of them would pay for commercial support:
Here’s the news from the newly formed Cfengine AS:
Following 5 years of research and development under the technical direction of its long time aut
This coming semester I will be guest lecturing at Columbia University about various iPhone programming topics. No better opportunity exists to taint and otherwise corrupt the youth of America today...
For the first time in Adaptive Path’s history, we’ve released our entire slate of in-person events for the year at the beginning of the year. (I say “in-person” because we’re still working on our virtual seminar lineup). I know it’s going to be a strange year for many folks, budget-wise, but we’re confident we have events that can satisfy various abilities of spend. And if you use the promotional code FOPM, you’ll get an extra 15% off!
I’m mo
Having recently been taken to task by a house guest for having low thread count sheets -- when she had actually been sleeping on high thread count sheets -- my suspicion that thread count was a false virtue finally found some proof by way of textile expert Mark Scheuer:
You call thread count a "marketing ploy." To prove it, you bought 20 different pillowcases from vendors you don't carry. What do they show about different fabrics or linens?
That Sferra's Grand Hotel's 200-count collection fe
There is a Santa Claus. There isn't a Santa Claus. The deal about Santa? The same goes for his elves, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, God, and the Halloween Ghosts and Goblins.
As you may have noticed from some of my recent posts (here and here), I have been spending some time lately thinking about the ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 transition. I am working on some stuff to make this transition easier (especially for non-developers), but I wanted to make a quick post and get the community’s input.
How can we make the transition from ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 easier? I am specifically interested in input from anyone who does not consider themselves hardco
A blogger and a software developer from United Kingdom posted the following:"Having just received some photos from a source I will not name, it is truly horrific to actually see what is going on there, I mean this is the sort of stuff that
A friend recently pointed out a cool gadget to me that deserves a brief mention on this blog. It is a dog safety collar from Auroralites that uses electroluminescent ("EL") technology to provide a long-lived and bright safety light for your night-time walkies. The product is already being used by police, search & rescue, FBI, and other security K-9 teams, and is now also available for civilian use. The collar is shock proof, water resistant and soft, so they won't break teeth. They
2008 Top Read Blog Entries! The 2008 calendar year was an exceptional year for activity on my Blog site. User activity averaged over 50,000 per month in the latter part of the year and the blog site itself recorde
Are you a software developer applying to a small company?
Here’s a tip from someone who has read thousands of resumes. When you’re applying to a startup, or a software company with less than, say, 100 employees, you may want to highlight the Banging Out Code parts of your experience, while deemphasizing the Middle Management parts of your experience.
When a startup CTO sees a resume that says things like:
Responsible for $30m line of business
Architected new ERP platform
Managed team
Just wanted to share a reply I made on GetSatisfaction to provide a historical perspective to the question "What really is the future of ColdFusion?". Before you ask what the future holds, its good to look back to see where ColdFusion has been since...
David Luckham started a complexevents.com discussion on what lies in store for CEP in 2009. We won’t re-create that discussion, but instead look at probably the biggest challenge facing CEP: the terminology! There is nothing wrong or odd with businesses having complex (or abstract) events, and requiring detection of said events in a timely fashion with an appropriate reaction; however, many many applications already do this in some restricted way or other. So what differentiates CEP tech
I took these pictures at the Stanford Shopping Center during the week after Christmas. Money sure talks now…
There were a handful of stores without sales signs, but only one didn’t offer discounts and had lots of people in it. :-) We all definitely have our work cut out for ourselves in 2009. As a wise man once said, “Some things need to be believed to be seen.”
"Follow the money" is a common way experts rationalize human behaviors in economics, politics, crime and many other areas. This undeniable truth becomes even more relevant in an economic environment characterized by gloom and pessimism, such as the one we are currently experiencing.It is with this in mind that we are proud to announce that in the midst of one of the most difficult economic scenarios in history, JackBe received $5 Million in additional funding from its existing investors to expan
Here's this year's Christmas tree.
Christmas 2008
After all the ice and snow, and the people without power for two weeks tomorrow, let's have a great holiday, and good wishes for everyone.
Thanks to all the participants for the overwhelming response to this month’s webinar on “Delivering Rich Internet and Mobile Applications cost-effectively“. Due to the success of the December event, Web Spiders is rerunning the webinar again on two dates in January. (details below)
As before, Web Spiders’ Business Development Manager (UK/ Europe) Neil Burton [...]
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