Kenneth wrote: You forgot
to mention a disadvantage
of xmlHttpRequest that is
a major issue for me: You
can't(at least not
directly) run scripts
that are returned as part
of the response.
MS News Desk wrote:
Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer is now running
the company's Windows,
Windows Live and Internet
properties after Kevin
Johnson, the president of
the company's Platforms
and Services Divisi...
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I have started a new series of interviews with users of technologies for
storing and handling persistent objects, around the globe.Here I define "users"
in a very broad sense, including: CTOs, Technical Directors, Software
Architects, Consultants,
Marten Mickos is now the head of the Database Group at Sun MicrosystemsI have
asked Marten a few questions related to the new strategy of MySQL, now part of
Sun Microsystems.See his reply below.RVZ Q1. It appears as if the positioning
of MySQL has
I wanted to have an opinion on some critical questions related to Object
Databases: Where are Object Database Systems going? Are Relational database
systems becoming Object Databases? Do we need a standard for Object Databases?
Why ODMG did not succe
More on the topic of Java Object Persistence ...I have this time interviewed the
following ODBMS.ORG experts Jose Blakeley (Microsoft), Rick Cattell (Sun
Microsystems), William Cook (University of Texas at Austin), Robert Green
(Versant) , and A
I was invited to speak at ICOODB- the International Conference on Object
Databases.The conference took place on 13 and 14 of March in Berlin. I was
there only on the 13.I have to admit that I was surprised. It was very long time
since I attended an
The topic of Java Object Persistence is as actual as ever...I have therefore
interviewed together with InfoQ.com's Floyd Marinescu the following group of
leading persistence solution architects on their views on the current State of
the Union of obje
On Wednesday Jan 16, 2008 Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer and
President, Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced in his blog that SUN is acquiring
MySQL AB.On 26 February 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it has completed
the acquisition of
I have been working together with Floyd Marinescu, editor of InfoQ.com, and
produced a virtual panel asking a group of leading persistence solution
architects their views on the current state of the union in persistence in the
Java community.The Pane
I have received some information from Mrs. Charlotte W. Wales (The MITRE
Corporation) related to the OMG Object Database Technology Users and Vendors
Roundtable, which took place on 11 December 2007 at the OMG meeting in
Burlingame, CA. I have liste
A tragedy occured to Michael Blaha`s family,Michael is a database colleague and
contributor to ODBMS.ORG.I??d thought to share this with the community.Roberto
V. ZicariBrian Blaha, the son of Michael Blaha, died on July 10, 2007 after a
long and bra
Getting
average kn
ow-nothing
s to
create
content
for your
site is
easy
enough and
well
understood
by now.
But how do
you get
experts to
create
in-depth
topic
pages
about the
hot-button
issues of
the day,
complete
with
videos,
links, and
healthy co
mmenting?
Russell
Fine is
trying to
do that
with
Opposing
Views, a
site [...]
Tech.NewsJ
unk.Com
was born
on the 4th
of July,
just like
the United
States of
America. I
chose a
holiday so
the expect
ations
wouldn't
be too
high,
cause I
knew at
first it
would be
hard to
find the
kinds of
stories I
was
looking
for, news
about
products.
Not
interested
in mergers
or trends
or
personnel
changes at
tech
companies.
Just
product
news and
reviews,
that's
all.
http:
//tech.new
sjunk.com/
Well, it's
starting
to pick
up. Maybe
we're
learning
where to
look.
And the
flow is
up. It's
not e
The first
in a
series of
three
short
videos
from the
Digital
Natives
project of
U of St.
Gallen and
the
Berkman
Center
that tells
the story
of Zack
McCune, a
Brown
student
(and
Berkman
intern)
who "won
the DMCA
lottery"
and was
sued by
the RIAA.
It's
nicely
done ...
Chuck
Allison?s
interestin
g article
?Software:
Use At
Your Own
Risk?,
(Better
Software
Magazine,
July/Augus
t 2008, p.
9)
discusses
the risk
inherent
in
software
licenses
compared
to other w
arranties,
reasons
for the
lack of
quality in
software
and lists
a sample
of the
code of
ethics of
the Associ
ation of
Computer
Machinery.
Here are
some
reasons
why [...]
In early
June I
decided to
join twitt
er.com.
For those
who haven&
rsquo;t
heard
about this
yet
another so
cial-engin
eering
site,
I’ll
explain
you what
it
is.
The
concept is
extremely
simple.
They give
you a text
field to
enter a
short
answe
With their
stock
price
falling
VMWare
needs to
do
something
different
to start
rebuilding
their
company.
The
solution,
however,
is staring
them in
the face.
VMWare
just needs
to look at
the
industry
it help
shape for
the soluti
on.Leave C
ommentRela
ted Entrie
s:Amazon
S3 suffers
an 8hr
outage;
Trust no
oneDoes
software
date? Of
course
not, and
don't let
them tell
you differ
entlyVMWar
e worth $1
1BnVMware
for the
Children10
things I
didn't
know last
weekFedora
5 running
under
vmware
Adobe AIR
has been
out for a
couple of
months
now, and
we are
really
seeing a
lot of
good apps
being
released.
So, which
AIR apps
do you
find
yourself
using the
most?
For
me, I use
the
following
daily:
TweetDeck
Has added
a TON of
value to
twitter
for me (es
pecially
their
summize in
tegration)
Pandora No
[...]
In among
the
sessions
at the
recent OMG
Real-Time
Distribute
d Object
workshop
were 2 int
eresting
CEP
papers.
The first
was by the
Naval
Surface
Warfare
Center on
their eval
uations of
CEP techno
logies and
tools for
potential
Navy use.
Their goal
is to
replace
certain &#
8220;hard
coded̶
1; event
processing
logic in
expensive
systems
with some
more [...]
When
analysts
talk,
people
listen. I
am proud
to say
that
JackBe is
no
exception.
For
example,
we
recently
heard that
a recent
Forrester
survey of
262 US IT
decision-m
akers
revealed
?41% have
never
heard of
mashups?.
Based on
this,
Larry
Dignan at
ZDNet reco
mmended
companies
like
JackBe
?start
talking to
CIOs and
technology
decision
makers?.
To this
marketer?s
ears,
that's all
the
marching
orders I n
eed.Coinci
dentally,
JackBe has
had the op
portunity
to perform
a simple
survey of
our own in
At FOO
Camp I met
Bruce
Wyman, the
Director
of
Technology
at the
Denver Art
Museum (He
occasional
ly blogs
on the Mus
eum’
s site.).
For the
past few
years at
UX Week, w
e’ve
had
museums
(first in
D.C., now
in SF)
share with
us how
they
design for
experience
. Had I
met Bruce
a few
months
[...]
We've
already
got a
great
lineup of
speakers
for the
Business
of
Software c
onference:
Seth Godin
Eric Sink
Steve
Johnson
Richard
Stallman
Paul Kenny
Tom
Jennings
Dharmesh
Shah
Mike
Milinkovic
h
Jessica
Livingston
Jason
Fried
and
me!
Neil
Davidson
was
looking
for a way
to bring
in a
handful of
extra inte
resting
speakers
for very
brief pres
entations
just to
keep the
conference
more
dynamic
and hear
from
different
corners of
the world.
I had
recently
read about
Pecha
Kucha. The
speaker
gets 6
minut
I recently
upgraded
to the
iPhone 2.0
software,
and then
finally
upgraded
my desktop
to Leopard
after
waiting
for the &#
8220;best
beta evar&
#8221; to
stabilize.
I noticed
shortly
thereafter
that
iTunes no
longer
recognized
my iPhone.
After a
software
update,
reboot,
and moving
the iPhone
to a
different
USB port,
I still co
uldn’
;t [...]
I am not a
big
podcast
listener
but one of
the ones I
listen to
regularly
is the IT
Management
podcast
with Redmo
nk’s
Coté and
John M.
Willis.
Today Zeno
ss’
Matt Ray
and Tarus
Balog from
OpenNMS
were
guests and
I thought
it was a p
articularl
y good
episode
because of
the open
source
angles. He
re’s
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What does
the Ajax
community
want from
future
browsers?
How are
these
different
requests p
rioritized
? Web
developers
have done
amazing
things
with Ajax
for both
Web 1.0
and Web
2.0 applic
ations,
but what
barriers
need to be
removed to
enable the
next
generation
of browser
-based inn
ovations?
The future
of Ajax
runtime en
vironments
matters
more than
[...]
I like the
New
Yorker's
Obama
cover. I
chuckled.
I got the
joke. I'm
not
angry, nor
am I
offended.
It could
have been
drawn
better.
Maybe they
were in
a hurry.
To someone
in my
position,
who
follows
both
Microsoft
(.NET)
news and
Apple
(Cocoa)
news, the
comparing
and contra
sting
between
MobileMe
and Live
Mesh as
developer
platforms
is inevita
ble.
Here's my
first stab
at a
comparison
Gartner,
the
world?s
leading
analyst
firm, has
just
published
its ?Marke
tScope for
Web
Content Ma
nagement?
report,
one of the
most influ
ential
analyst
reports on
the Web
Content
Management
market.
Out of 17
CMS
software
providers
evaluated,
Gartner
has given
a ?Strong
Positive?
[...]
Ok, you
haven't
read new
posts here
for some
time now.
I've been
pretty
busy: an
important
deadline
first and
later five
consecutiv
e days of
holidays
(!)
chasing
the Rhône
river from
the
glacier to
the mouth
- my
first...
The
Kaazing
team
recently
got a
Comet
article
published
in the Jav
aDeveloper
's Journal
(JDJ June
2008),
which
gives an
overview
of the
impact Com
et-based
solutions
will have
on your IT
infrastruc
ture. The
article is
now
published
online -
Why the
Web
Dinosaurs
Died.
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Jonas
Jul. 11, 2008 08:31 PM
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