Dave Jenkins wrote: The
remote server management
is a welcomed added
feature in our IT
Department as we can now
just
have one install of
NGASI managing our many
application
servers on
over 20 machines.
Keep...
Craig Tobias wrote: I
hear a lot of discussion
around defining Web 2.0;
I think simpler
definition is better such
as ?user based
collaboration and content
generation?. There are a
number of people who wa...
tourneau customer wrote:
I went in there the other
day and a man named KEN
RODRIGUEZ greeted me he
first looked at me and I
saw him make a face like
I was a waste of his
time. I then saw the
managers Rich...
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I recently ran across this 15 minute clip of Clay Shirky talking about what he
brilliantly refers to as the cognitive surplus and how that applies to things
like Wikipedia and Web 2.0. It's an absolute must-watch
One thing that seems to stir up a lot of controversy whenever talking about PNRP
is its (alleged) resemblance to ZeroConf and more specifically, Apple's
implementation of it - Bonjour. This post compares the pros and cons of both
During my last trip to Best Buy, on a whim I picked up a DVI-to-HDMI connector
(male DVI, female HDTV). This little doohicky plugs into the side of my Macbook
Pro and then I plug the HDMI cable into that. I run the other end of the HDMI
cable into th
Continuous LINQ, a C# 3.5 extension library that enables standard LINQ queries
to remain dynamic and continuous long after the initial query, has been updated
to version 1.1 and includes a new demo and lots of new features
On Sunday, like a LOT of people, I went out and picked up Mario Kart Wii and a
couple of spare Wii Wheels so that I could play with the family. Unfortunately,
Mario Kart Wii appears to NOT WORK AT ALL. I detail the story in the blog post
In my series exploring peer networking I've talked about the anatomy of peer
networks. In this blog post, I talk about how the WCF Peer Channel enables
application developers to build peer applications.
I am an avid consumer of all things related to consumer electronics and all
things involving code. However, one thing that I am truly passionate about is
networking, and one thing I am OBSESSED with is Peer Networking.
Correspond
ent Bill
Reising
caught
this gas
price sign
in San
Mateo, CA.
If you see
the first
$5 buck a
gallon
sign we
want to
see it!
Then on to
$6 and $7
and $8!!
Send in
your sign
pics!
Today
marks
another
milestone
for San
Francisco
based
contextual
search
engine
Powerset.
They’
;ve
launched a
showcase
for their
user
search
experience
- effectiv
ely the
search
engine
minus the
web crawl.
For now,
Powerset
queries
only
Wikipedia
and
augments
results
with data
from
Freebase.
The
product
launch
comes just
a day
after
reports
that the
company
[...]
I recently
picked up
Ron Paul&#
8217;s
“The
Revolution
: A Manife
sto”
.
I’ve
made my
way
through
the first
two
chapters
which do a
great job
of simply
explaining
the
problems
with our g
overnment.
A few of
the
highlights
include,
for
example,
the 1996
election
won by the
Republican
party:
The
Contract
with
America
was
typical
[...]
Parade
magazine
today
reports on
the top
ten names
for baby
boys and
girls this
year:Jacob
EmilyMicha
elIsabella
EthanEmmaJ
oshuaAvaDa
nielMadiso
nChristoph
erSophiaAn
thonyOlivi
aWilliamAb
igailMatth
ewHannahAn
drewElizab
ethOk, but
I seem to
meet more
and more
kids with
one-off
names.
Isn't the
long tail
of names
getting
longer
every year
?[Tags:
long_tail
]
I’m
giving a
short pres
entation
on the
220;future
of Web
2.0″
at a CIO
roundtable
session in
Chicago on
May 12th.
You can
download
the 14.2MB
PDF
version of
the presen
tation:
From time
to time
people ask
what the
images in
the
margins of
Scripting
News mean.
I don't
think I've
ever
answered
the
question
on the
blog
itself.
There are
many
answers to
the
question
because
they mean
whatever
you want
them to
mean. The
point is
to
stimulate
creativity
. If I
wrote an
article
about
Fidel
Castro,
for
example,
and put a
fiery
picture of
Fidel next
to the
piece it
would
satisfy
curiosity.
"I wonder
what he
looks
like?"
Suspense e
liminated.
That kind
of imagery
serves to
quell
Do you
know what
Moore̵
7;s, Metca
lfe’
s,and Reed
’s
Law are
and how
they are
related?
Have your
read
Wealth of
Networks,
Democratiz
ing Innova
tion, Free
Culture,
The Long
Tail, and
Small is
the New
Big? Find
out why in
this
excellent
video of
Paul Jones
talk to
TriLug
last
month. Do
you know
that
iBiblio
that hosts
[...]SHARE
THIS.addEn
try({
title:
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Jones R
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on the
History of
Ibiblio,
Laws, and
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/05/11/pau
l-jones
After
waiting
four years
since my
1st Dan
(1st
degree
black
belt) in
TaeKwonDo
(TKD) I
was given
the"g
reen light
" by
my Master
- Stephen
Yeoh - in
March to
...
Approximat
ely
250,000
cell phone
subscriber
s lost
service
for most
of Tuesday
this week
in Vermont
and neighb
oring
states.
According
to the Bra
ttleboro
Reformer,
a “s
oftware is
sue”
caused the
problem,
which
caused the
loss of Un
icel’
;s cell
phone
service
from about
4:00 am
until 2:30
in the
afternoon.
Public
Relations
Manager
Miriam
Svobodny
said [...]
Of late, t
here’
;s been
some
discussion
about
whether
the role
of design
will have
a seat at
the table
—
you know
the table,
the large
mahogany
one where
all the
important
decisions
are made.
Adaptive P
ath’
s search
for a CEO
(or, as
one
candidate
put it to
me
yesterday,
“It&
#8217;s
like your
adopting a
parent,
221;)
[...]
I recently
ran across
this 15
minute
clip of
Clay
Shirky
talking
about what
he brillia
ntly
refers to
as the
cognitive
surplus
and how
that
applies to
things
like
Wikipedia
and Web
2.0. It's
an
absolute
must-watch
Now I can
say, at
last, that
I'm a
JavaOne
speaker,
really,
not only a
successful
submitter.
This year
no
headache,
sore
throat,
cold, flu,
pain in
the ass
prevented
me from
performing
my talk.
Not even
the
stinking
MacBook...
As I write
the last
of my
event
summary
reports
and follow
up action
items, I
am now
officially
putting a
bow on the
TIBCO user
conference
(TUCON
2008)
What a
madhouse.
I was acco
untable
for the
TIBCO
Analyst
Summit
(TIBCO?s
first
ever), two
days of
the
Business O
ptimizatio
n track of
presentati
ons
(combining
[...]
Apparently
Lucas is
up to his
old tricks
again .
How sad .
I was
hoping
that
Spielberg
might
diminish
Lucas?
influence
on the
film .
*sigh*
I?ll
probably
go see it
anyway. On
the upside
Iron Man
was surpri
singly
good and
Prince
Caspian
looks to
be good...
(read
more)
Dave Fish
has a
number of
entries on
his blog
site demon
strating
the soon
to be
released
features,
including
DataWindow
ToolTips
and New
Graph Styl
es.Origina
l Entry
Stockholm,
Berlin,
Warsaw,
Prague,
Munich and
Milan are
the cities
I will be
stopping
in as part
of the
second leg
of the
European
on AIR
Tour. I
will be
MCing the
event, and
giving a
session on
building
your first
AIR applic
ation with
Flex.
The first
leg was
completely
sold out,
and the
second
[...]
I relied
on two
models
when I
wrote Java
Script:
The Good
Parts. The
first was
Kernighan
and
Richie's
The C P
rogramming
Language.
It is a
brilliant
little
book. I
thought
there
should be
a K&R
for JavaSc
ript. When
it seems
that most
tech books
are
sold by
the pound,
it is nice
to read a
little
book that
cleanly
lays
out what
you need
to know.
The other
was
William
Goldman's
The
Princess
Bride.
Goldman
remembers
his grandf
ather
reading
him a
wonderful
book by
S.
Morgenste
At the end
of this
week, I
will no
longer be
employed
by BEA
Systems.
It has
been a
great 4
years
working at
BEA, and u
ndoubtedly
the
highlight
of my
career
thus far.
I have
enjoyed
the opport
unity to
write for
the BEA
developer
community,
and to
lead
Tooling at
BEA these
last 3
years.
According
to
Forrester
research
wider
handset av
ailability
, improved
network
coverage
and new
pricing
models are
going to
foster
rapid
adoption
of mobile
internet
services
in
Europe.By
2013 they
predict
that the
number of
people
using the
Internet
via mobile
phone will
be 125
million -
three
times toda
y's
figure.
Some
countries,
such as
the UK,
will adopt
even faste
r. Im
proved
handset
devices,
such as
the Iphone
2.0,
improved
networks,
such as
3.5G,
better
network
coverage,
and fl
Meet you
at the
JavaOne
Modularity
session
and BOF on
Wednesday
(May 7th)
to share
more about
the Java
Module
System and
OSGi
support.
We will
show some
simple
demos of
the Java
Module
System and
how a Java
module
imports an
OSGi
bundle.
The
ColdFusion
8.01
System Req
uirements
as shown
in the
detailed
platform
support
matrix
[PDF]
indicates
that
support
for 64-bit
Linux dist
ributions
is limited
to Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux 5
and SuSe
Linux
Enterprise
Server
10.1.
This fine
print
appears to
often go o
verlooked,
so I just
want to
broadcast
it a
little
louder
here.
I was
contacted
today by
someone
reporting
installati
on
problems
and
mentioned
glibc and
floating
point
errors. A
bit of
Googling
turned up
this
Google
Group
thread
