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— Technology’s highest paid CEO currently is also America’s highest paid CEO, namely Larry Ellison o...
James Nelson wrote: Thanks for the posting, which we are hoping will solve our software issue with two Turkish clients. This may be four years out of date, but please correct the code example, which has many nonsensical errors (two identica...
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1.2.6 is now out and the events handling functionality is 103% faster:
CSS Selectors are 13% faster
.offset() is 21% faster
The DImensions plugin is now part of the core
toggle() can now accept more functions
attr() has had an ov
Aptana released Jaxer: the first ever Ajax server... you got that right, server-side Ajax ... the concept is pretty interesting, a server-side API that wraps for client-side Ajax app to better optimize it and allows you to interface with the file sys
I will be speaking at the New York ColdFusion User Group this Wednesday, April 16, with the topic of "AJAXify Your ColdFusion Applications". I promise it will be fun, a good learning experience, and perhaps we may even go out afterwards and
Adobe ColdFusion 8 Update 1 (8.0.1) was released April 3rd (most of you knew already). The good and safe news is that it seems to work fine... nothing broke with the update.What was updated? You can get the full list here, but I will concentrate only
After blogging about Dan's great EXT cf wrapper, I ran across another one today: ColdExt. It looks great as well, so how about Dan and Justin join efforts instead of doubling work...?
People, listen up ... Ext 2.0 Beta 1 was released today ... for those of you still not familiar with Ext, it is what powers the ColdFusion 8 Ajax UI: Windows, Menus, Grids, Trees, etc. With the 2.0 release you have an amazing power to build desktop-l
It's not dead (or even dying), it's just...Not dead, just ... stealthyNot dead, just ... getting the AJAX treatmentNot dead, just ... in an upgrade cycleRead more at a new ComputerWorld rectifying story.
jQuery UI is a set of themable widgets and interactions, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications.
The core of the library revolves around different mouse interacti
[From Rey Bango's Blog]
Hot on the heels of the jQuery v1.1.4 release, John Resig and the jQuery team put the pedal to the metal and announced their newest release, jQuery v1.2.
This is a massive new release of jQuery that's been a long time in the
Since I just moved AjaxCFC to its own homepage, I moved the SVN repository from RIAForge and created a Trac project. If you had RIAForge's SVN mapped, please update your records: ajaxcfc.com/svn . I maintained the same structure and history, though I
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"
No, not this sort of cloud!
Engineer accidentally deletes cloud | Channel Register — Incredible that people remain gah-gah over cloud computing with things like this happening.
Following last month’s much-discussed Amazon S3 outage, most (if not all) of XCalibre’s FlexiScale cloud went dark on Tuesday, and nearly two days later, the UK-based hosting outfit has yet [...]
Microsoft has agreed to acquire a Connecticut-based research company called Greenfield Online, which runs both a website called Ciao for European comparison shoppers and an online survey system that helps businesses conduct market research.
The cash tender offer to buy out all of Greenfield’s outstanding shares amounts to roughly $486 million, about $60 million more than public equity firm Quadrangle recently offered to pay for Greenfield. Microsoft has already found an unnamed party to b
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.
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
“The American Promise”Democratic National ConventionAugust 28, 2008Denver, ColoradoAs prepared for delivery
“Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story – of the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who weren’t well-off or well-known, but shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to.
“It is that promise that has always set this country apart – that through hard work and sac
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
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:
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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
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:
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Only thought it was worth mentioning because of the weather. I’m driving back because I’m just going to LA. It takes a long to drive to Vegas from my house as it does to fly, and driving is (IMHO) more convenient.
It’s 106 degrees
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.
