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As Rome Burned, Team Cyprus Danced
Yes, the meme is just getting started it seems. 1938Media does his own take of the Team Cyprus video, set to the tune of AC/DC’s HighWay To Hell: Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
Posted: Oct. 10, 2008 09:26 PM
Team Cyprus Move To Undo “The Video”
A group of twenty or so tech elite were partying 1999-style in Cyprusthis last week, and posted a lip sync video of the Journey song “Don’t Stop Believing” a couple of days ago. Among the group were Brittany Bohnet of Google, Mike Hudack of Bl
Posted: Oct. 10, 2008 07:52 PM
Delicious, Upcoming Founders To Show You Political Bias Of News Sites
What has ex-Yahooer and Delicious founder Joshua Schachter been working on since leaving Yahoo last June? At least one project is a GreaseMonkey script that shows readers the political leanings of blogs and news sites on Memeorandum, a news aggregato
Posted: Oct. 10, 2008 07:27 PM
Getting The UnParty Started: Seesmic Lays Off 1/3 Of Staff
It’s time to start slamming the reality of the Silicon Valley situation home to everyone. Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur lets seven employees go, he says, which is more than a third of the company. This comes on top of three employees let go a co
Posted: Oct. 10, 2008 06:03 PM
Parallel Kingdom Set To Launch One Of First iPhone/Android MMOs
Since the launch of the iPhone App Store, we’ve seen a wave of geo-aware social networks that make use of the phone’s GPS (or in the case of the original iPhone, pseudo-GPS). Each of these apps aims to help facilitate social interaction
Posted: Oct. 10, 2008 05:41 PM
Elevator Pitch Friday: Palo Alto Software Makes Collaborative E-Mail Intelligent
It’s Elevator Pitch Friday, which means another startup has created a video that’s worth showing you. This week’s presentation comes from Palo Alto Software, a software company startup that wants to make it easier for organizations
Posted: Oct. 10, 2008 05:30 PM
MacBook Pro’s Riddled with Faulty Nvidia Graphics Cards?
Apple has released a statement that may affect those of you with newer MacBook Pro’s with Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT graphics cards. Said graphics cards have been known to be faulty and may cause video to be scrambled or distorted. Mine is doing just
Posted: Oct. 10, 2008 02:53 PM
Entellium Scandal Gives Ignition Partners a Black Eye
Just because you run a private company that does not have to file quarterly financial statements with the SEC does not make it okay to cook your books. The CEO and CFO of Seattle-based CRM firm Entellium found that out the hard way. They were arres
Posted: Oct. 10, 2008 02:51 PM
Google Employees Watch In Horror As 60 Percent Of Their Stock Options Drown
The entire stock market is taking another drubbing today, and Google is no exception. Its shares tried to rally in the morning, but are now trading below the $329 they closed at yesterday. That’s a key price level Google employees are watch
Posted: Oct. 10, 2008 11:43 AM
Real World Got You Down? IBM Invites You To A Virtual Forbidden City.
Can’t afford a ticket to China to go visit the Forbidden City? Well, now all you need is your computer. IBM, which is a big believer in virtual worlds, and China’s Palace Museum have created an exact replica of the 178-acre Forbidden C
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Stephen Fry recently published an article on cloud computing. Like many others he got it completely wrong and was describing nothing more than what the Internet is. Cloud computing is not the second coming. Leave Comment Related Entries: Cloud Bootcamp announced, learn what all the fuss is about Amazon's EC2 now with Windows dot.com bubble2.0 Upcoming online webinar - Flying through the clouds From deep within the bowels of SUN Time for VMWare to change its pricing model Amazon S3 s
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I knew, going into 2008, it was going to be a liminal year for me. And, boy howdy, has it proven true! This year, I: had a book I co-wrote published got married (twice!) hired a CEO to steer the company I started oversaw the largest event Adaptive Path ever delivered had a child and, as of yesterday bought a house (in North Oakland) Still to come this year is, I hope, the sale of my current house, market willing. (Know anyone who’d like a pleasant, cozy, 2BR home in South Berkeley? Let me
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A note about conferences
I was recently invited to keynote a prestigious conference in a European city. I agreed to speak but only on the condition that they cover my expenses. I didn't ask to be paid for my time, but after they said no, I realize I should have. Here's why. I didn't have a product to pitch or have a company that could benefit from the PR. If I were in their shoes (and I have been) I would insist on covering expenses, otherwise the talks would just be advertisements. It seems analogous to asking a vendor
Oct. 10, 2008 05:35 PM
VMware – Sixth in Our Series on Software Community Blogs
VMware, one of our partners, has the VMNT blog which provides virtualization news from VMware and the community of virtualization users, including the VMware Communities and VMTN, the VMware Technology Network. This blog also lists 17 other VMware blogs, each with a specific focus.  There is the Console blog that is VMware's Executive Blog. It has contributions from a number of VMware executives. The Develop Center Blog supports their developer community.  There is the WMware PhD blog that p
Oct. 10, 2008 02:19 PM
Suggest me a scripting language for blueMarine, Java compatible
I've said a lot of times that I don't like scripting languages, and in fact all of my work is currently done in Java. I see it as perfectly fitting my needs, from JME to JEE, through the Desktop. But...
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Being right doesn't count for
Being right doesn't count for much if you can't persuade anyone of that fact.
Oct. 10, 2008 11:06 AM
Stack Overflow Podcast #25
This week's Stack Overflow Podcast features special guest star and programming blogger superhero Steve Yegge. It's a terrific conversation about working at Google, marketing your ideas, and programming languages... one of the most interesting podcasts yet.  In the spirit of Steve's extremely long blog posts, we ran about 15 minutes long this week. In the past, Jeff and I have had some audio problems using Skype to record the podcast--mainly, dropouts when we talk over each other.
Oct. 10, 2008 12:00 AM
Bash Scripts for working with ActionScript 3 in TextMate
I have switched over to using TextMate for some of my experimentations with ActionScript. I like how lightweight it is, its extensibility, command completion functionality, and ease of setting up new projects. I find it is perfect for quickly testing new code and ideas. I have put together a couple of bash scripts, which coupled with the ActionScript 3 and Flex TextMate bundles have made working in TextMate a little easier for me. The first script is called autocompile, which takes a class file
Oct. 9, 2008 02:41 PM
The Miller Device
The JavaScript language currently does not provide a good way to distinguish between objects and arrays. The typeof operator is broken: It identifies arrays as objects. Comparing a value's constructor property doesn't work because arrays created in a different frame will have a different constructor. There are do-it-yourself tests for arrayness, but they are complicated and unreliable. Mark Miller of The Google, by closely reading the ECMAScript standard, has discovered
Oct. 9, 2008 01:22 PM
Develop an iPhone App and beat the credit crunch !
From the press some of the initial iPhone apps have been getting, it seems that there are going to be quite a few Apple iPhone App Store millionaires this year ! So why not write your own and join the crowd ? Don't know Objective C or XCode - then get learning !  A nice resource is theiphonedevplace , which has many tutorial links now that Apple rescinded their NDA . So what you waiting for ? Get going - beat the credit crunch !      
Oct. 9, 2008 10:07 AM
Altova Online Training is back, improved, and still free
I am delighted to report that we have relaunched our Altova Online Training program today. We've used this hiatus of a few months to completely redesign our training program and incorporate all the feedback that we had received in the past. One of the key requests heard over and over again was that you wanted to be able to consume the training on your schedule and time, rather than having to sign up for a particular class and deal with available seats, time-zone issues, and fitting a 2-3h class
Oct. 9, 2008 09:02 AM
Stanford University - free programming courses
If you are young and poor, but want to take a some computer science courses for free, I've got something for you.Stanford Univercity is one of the best schools in the world when it comes to preparing software engineers. They have a program called
Oct. 9, 2008 08:19 AM
26 Hours at Sea: The Longest Posting in the History of Blogging
I've been to many interesting places, but nothing compares to my twenty-four hour visit to the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy. I hope that you enjoy these pictures and videos. I would be overjoyed if you spotted someone you know in one of them. Incidentally, this is probably the longest posting in the history of blogging. It contains over 130 photos (I lost count) and five videos. You might question the wisdom of posting this many pictures. After all, I could create
Oct. 9, 2008 02:04 AM
Decision Services in CEP?
One of the more obvious up-and-coming IT “best practices” is the area of “decision management” – as evangelised by James Taylor at Smart Enough Systems – which postulates that separating and managing decisions is as important as managing business processes. In a “conventional event processing” or synchronous SOA world, this means separate “decision services” invoked to make important decisions during automated processes, or prior to BPMN
Oct. 8, 2008 11:13 PM
Mobile observation from the City
City of London that is...
Oct. 8, 2008 06:49 AM
Breaking Brooks’s Law
Fred Brooks’s law of ‘adding manpower to a late software project makes it later‘ is one most of us have tried to prove wrong…….and failed! I was at Agile 2008 and saw an interesting session, “Breaking Brooks’s Law” from Menlo Innovations, a Michigan based Java development company. They claimed to disprove this law and demonstrated their working environment and techniques that allowed them to do so. Although the presentation was only 45 minutes, we
Oct. 8, 2008 12:42 AM
Mashups for the People. You Betcha!
I laughed when I heard Sarah Palin say in last week's debate: “...and I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also” (this is straight from the CNN transcript). I laughed because it’s such overt “spin” to say you’re not going to answer what the moderator wants to hear. And, incidentally, it's exactly what the moderator wants to hear.But that’s beside the po
Oct. 7, 2008 02:08 PM
Smart, Deep Property Notifications in CLINQ v2.0
I haven't said much about CLINQ lately but that's mostly because we've been trying to get v2.0 ready to ship. We're nearly there, so I thought I would start by talking about one of the new features - smart property notifications
Oct. 7, 2008 09:15 AM
Is really LINQ the best option for a future Java query API?
My interview to Mike Card has triggered an intense discussion ongoing, on the pros and cons of considering LINQ as the best option for a future Java query API. You can follow the discussion here.
Oct. 7, 2008 07:49 AM
Flex Camp 360 NJ
File this under the better late than never... On September 26 and 27th, the folks who bring you Flex 360, put on a 2 day "Flex Camp" in New Jersery, which went over extremely well.  I was presenting on Testing with Fluint (formerl
Oct. 6, 2008 07:43 AM
Save the dates…
TechWave 2009 will be held at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., Aug. 16-20.Original Entry
Oct. 3, 2008 10:17 AM
Running Toronto Marathon - 9/28/2008
A couple of years ago my friend Kaushal Vyas blogged about his first marathon experience. His blog entry started with some quotes from Lance Armstrong on his first marathon: “the hardest physical thing I have ever done. Even the worst days in the tours, nothing was as hard as that and nothing left me feeling the way I feel now in terms of sheer fatigue and soreness. I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier…”. It didn’t resonate with me at t
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