Brian wrote: I think
we're heading in the
right direction, but
we've still got some work
to do. Search engine
support, for example, is
something that is still a
big problem for RIAs.
Siegfried wrote:
Actually, every elephant
has two left feet, and
two right feet as well at
that :-).
Be that as it may, if you
are in the process of
delivering a product that
a customer pays big money
fo...
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Among the many reasons I’ve been posting so infrequently was wedding
planning. My own. Last Saturday, Stacy and I conducted our ceremony at the
Hillside Club in Berkeley.
Ryan posted a set of 16 beautiful photos from the event.
To be truly for
Of late, there’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 Path’s search for a CEO (or, as o
About a month ago I wrote about the progress we’re making planning the
conference UX Week 2008. I feel a little sheepish plugging Adaptive Path events
on my blog (you’re not here to be sold at!) but it really is a big part of
what I’
(20 minutes is the length of my BART commute.)
All Americans know that 1967 was a heady time of the country. “The
Sixties” were in full swing, and the gap between the Baby Boomers and
their parent generation was startlingly wide. Studying
As we’ve just announced over on the Adaptive Path blog, we’re
looking for a CEO. Jesse and I aren’t stepping down or anything —
we’ll still be Presidents. But we’ve recognized that as the company
evolves, and compl
Apart from government positions, is there any job in the public eye so wracked
with incompetent practitioners as NBA referees? The final call in regulation
that screwed the Raptors is just the latest in an overwhelming display of
incompetence.
I tend
Recently, my colleague Ryan conducted a two-hour IM chat session with Matt
Jones. You can read the highlights over in the Adaptive Path blog, but if you
have the time, I encourage you to delve into the unexpurgated version available
on Ryan’s s
A couple nights ago I saw Alan Cooper present his Interaction08 Keynote, An
Insurgency of Quality, for a local audience.
His presentation is quite rambly, but I think the heart of the thesis was:
best-to-market always beats first-to-market
quality
I grew up in Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s, and basketball was my favorite
sport to watch and play. Needless to say, the L.A. Lakers were my team, and its
centerpiece Kareem Abdul-Jabbar my favorite player. To the degree that when I
would play b-bal
ZYB, a
mobile
social
network
that we
gave high
marks to
in August
2007, has
been
acquired
by
Vodafone
for ?31.5
million,
or about
$50
million.
The
company
had raised
just ?3
million in
venture
capital.
ZYB was
smart in
how they
built
their
service.
At first
they were
a simple
address
book backu
p-to-web
service.
But [...]
I bought
my camera
from
Amazon (a
Canon
SD900)
years ago
and when
they
launched
the Eye-Fi
based on
my past
buying pre
ferences
they sent
me a
special
offer for
the Eye-Fi
Wireless
SD Card.
Otherwise
I would
never have
found this
very cool
little
device.
The Eye-Fi
is a SD
Card and
Wi-Fi
combo [...
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More on
the topic
of Java
Object Per
sistence
...I have
this time
interviewe
d the
following
ODBMS.ORG
experts
Jose
Blakeley (
Microsoft)
, Rick
Cattell
(Sun Micro
systems),
William
Cook (Univ
ersity of
Texas at
Austin),
Robert
Green
(Versant)
, and
Alan
Santos (Pr
ogress).Th
e panel
addressed
the ever
open issue
of the
impedance
mismatch,
a problem
which has
existed
ever since
computers
were used
to persist
ently
store data
- in file
systems or
database
management
systems -,
and where
no fully
sati
Novalys is
once again
holding
their
annual
survey of
PowerBuild
er users.
Once you
complete
the
survey, yo
u’ll
be allowed
to access
the
results of
the survey
for the
last
several ye
ars.Origin
al Entry
Charlie
Nesson
begins by
saying
that the
morning
had a
negative
cast to
it. It was
about
fear. But
he was
uplifted
when
Yochai and
Jimbo got
to what
Wikipedia
is and
could be.
[Live
blogging.
Full of
errors and
omissions.
Posted
unedited
and unspel
lchecked.]
He asks
the
general
counsel of
...
Sun has
launched
the
"Student
Reviews
Contest":
it is
reserved
to
students
that are
regularly
enrolled
in an educ
ational
institute
and would
like to
write a
review
about Open
Solaris or
NetBeans
6.1. The
prizes are
small
($250
grand
prize
and...
I know a
guy who
does not
like me.
I'm
sure there
are lots
of such
people,
but this
one is
vocal. He
told me
once over
the glass
of beer
that my
blogs are
useless.
He said, &
quot;Inste
ad of
doing some
serious
research
of a
particular
subject,
you
and much
to my
surprise,
the public
beta of
the flash
player 10
is
out.
I knew
this would
be coming
before too
long, but
didnt
realize
that it
would be
out so qui
ckly.
; This new
version is
filled
with lots
of new
features
aimed at
allowing
Apple's
WWDC
conference
has always
had a
really
high
attendance
rating and
has been
sold to
capacity
many times
in the
past, but
this is
the first
time
they've
ever sold
out all
space
before the
conference
started.
Is the
iPhone the
cause?
I’m
giving a p
resentatio
n on
“The
Politics
of Metrics
” in
Rochester
on May
15th, for
a seminar
being
organized
by the IT
Metrics
and Produc
tivity
Institute;
it’s
an updated
version of
the presen
tation I
gave in
Orlando a
month or
two ago.
You should
attend in
person, if
possible,
so you can
not only
hear my
[...]
I’m
excited to
announce
the launch
of a new
site,
Bugpedia.
Creating
the Enerjy
Index
threw out
a lot of f
ascinating
data and I
was
frustrated
that I did
n’t
really
have
anywhere
to put it.
For
example,
if you
follow
this blog
you’
ll have
seen Rich&
#8217;s
post on
our
analysis
of
Cyclomatic
Complexity
. Well,
just [...]
Sean
McGrath
gave the
closing pr
esentation
at XTech
2008 last
week in
Dublin. He
quoted
from Jorge
Luis
Borges's
The
Analytical
Language
of John
Wilkins.
Wilkins
was an
17th
Century
English
scientist.
(He is
also one
of the
characters
in Neal St
ephenson's
Quicksilve
r.)
Wilkins
designed a
Philosophi
cal
Language
in which
the
letters of
each
word give
not just
the sound
but also
the
specific
meaning of
the word.
It would
have been
an amazing
accomplish
ment had
it worked.
Borges su
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
[...]
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)
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.
May. 6, 2008 03:21 PM
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