Holiday weekends, especially the ones that bracket the summer months, tend to be stress tests for the tech media. With the p roliferati on of smart phones, social media aggr egators, and of course the Twitter cl onestakes, it’s now trivial to get a snapshot of what is going on throughout the “ ;time off. ” Is nothing going on? Has the [...]

Wax Hitler exhibit loses its head.

Sometimes standing still is a form of progress.

I am a crotchety old man about graffiti. 99.9% of them ? and, as usual, all my statistics have been authentica ted by having been made up ? impose an adolescent narcissism . But I also think: (a) I don't really understand the cultural p ositioning behind it, (b) some of it is ...

Have you ever seen an obviously drunk opera singer on stage? Check out this Youtube video: htt p://www.yo utube.com/ watch?v=xX YQvrGn5fY& amp;featur e=user Dragana is drunk, but singing for her is like riding a bicycle... or an  air plane . Just tur

There's a new site on the net today: http://tec h.newsjunk .com/ It's the c ounterpart to the political NewsJunk, which is focused on news of the 2008 p residentia l campaign. The Tech site is focused on technology product news. I created the site because I wasn't getting enough news about products. It's that simple. I'm interested in the other stuff too, the finance, trends, parties, puppets -- but that's adequately covered on TechMeme. What wasn't getting through is the stuff I, as a product dev

Just found out about these folks in a review of the upcoming Animation Show 4. In America, t hey’ re best-known product was the Coca-Cola ad “ Videogame, ” which I un abashedly love. In clicking around their film ography (requires a little digging), I found &# 8220;Grand Classics&# 8221; an engaging retelling of the history of cinema with a rabbit as a [...]

Next from the Distri buted Event Based Systems co nference: the CQL tutorial by Dieter Gawlick and Shailendra Mishra, covering O racle̵ 7;s version of a continuous query language [*1]. What was intere sting was their defense of the claim that ̶ 0;your database server can do your CEP” [*2], supposedly reinforced by the obs ervation that “you get all the (usual) [...]

BlogSME, the iPhone Blogging a pplication by Th eSMESpace& #160;has been updated. It now supports Twitter as well as adding a & quot;Tagge r" for HTML s ubmissions . It also supports Blogger, WordPress and Movable Type, and of course Blog City, and in fact I am using this now to post this entry. 0; 

One of the ActionScri pt 3 libraries that I use in just about every project I work on is the as3corelib library. This is an ActionScri pt 3 library that contains a lot of useful APIs for working with AS3. I am planning to do some more work the library this week. I spent the morning scrubbing and [...]

Achieving Project success over the last 30 years has been difficult! Reports on various studies released over the last 5 years state as little as 30% of complex projects succeed. Although this number is climbing, very large projects (300 ? 500 man years) have been the least successful in succeed ing, with one report in 2007 [...]

I have a telephone instrument on my desk. I rarely use it. Most of the calls I get are re cruiters, evil telem arketers, and wrong numbers. I mostly communicat e with people using email, im, and the old reliable f2f. The office phone is as useful to me as a typewriter , Lamson tube, or telegraph key.

Last night I made a hands-free call from my new in-dash Pioneer combo GPS/XM radio unit and I was squealing with joy, knowing full well the rest of the world has been doing this for years.

Our NHS is 60 years old today, and it is one of the shining examples of why we call it GREAT Brit ain.Leave Comment

Today Linux desktop ma nufacturer Xandros acquired Linspire for an und isclosed amount. Xandros will also be keeping existing e ngineering , support, and key sales employees and long-time Linspire employee and CEO Larry Kettler will be joining the Xandros executive team as the VP of Business D evelopment . While Xandros di dn’t mention their total employee numbers Xandros CEO Andreas [. ..]SHARETH IS.addEntr y({ title: "Xandros Acquires Linspire", url: "http ://sociali zedsoftwar e.com/2008 /07/01/xan dr

SOA is about loosely coupled system int egration . Sorry, I meant to say that SOA is about enabling loosely coupled business processes . On the other hand SOA is about reuse , except that its actually not about reuse . Hang on a minute, SOA is like event ...(read more)

A long time ago, it became fashionabl e, even re commended, to disable menu items when they could not be used. Don't do this. Users see the disabled menu item that they want to click on, and are left entirely without a clue of what they are supposed to do to get the menu item to work. Instead, leave the menu item enabled. If there's some reason you can't complete the action, the menu item can display a message telling the user why. Not loving your job? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great s

There are a number of tools out there which aspire to make building Rich Internet A pplication s easier. Some of them focus on server side logic, like Oracle. Others focus on a native runtime on the client like Adobe Flex and Microsoft. Still others focus on JavaScript on the client. This includes a lot of what Google does, and companies like WaveMaker. In this article, I take a look a WaveMaker and its vision for building a richer client exp erience.

Thankfully , not the House of Blues. According to the “A to Z of TechWave 2 008″ document, we’r e going over to the Wynn for a perf ormance of Le Reve. Cool, although I personally would have preferred Spamalot.O riginal Entry

I've been just notified that the Italian Ministry for the En vironment has just introduced a 3D viewer of italian ca rtography. The main features are: "fly over the terrain; fluid motion between two points; path tracking; popping up 2D maps related...

I am constantly blown away that the cool winding and twisting of life... I am done the Core Animation book, now just waiting for the iPhone NDA to lift so we can ship it. I started a book on iPhone for the prag's, which is very very fun and cool too. I don't post much here because I spend most of my time on PrEV these days. Thanks for stopping by...

Looking into the contents of PowerBu ilder types is an area that is not well explored by most people. This sample extracts the names and values of an enum eration at runtime.

A recent post from David Hyatt on the www-st yle-list answers my question from April 15th: Will we see CSS variables next?. The short answer is yes! WebKit now has an exp erimental implementa tion of CSS variables: You can test this feature using a WebKit nightly Test cases Thanks to David Hyatt and Daniel Glazman for bringing something to CSS [...]

What would you like to see in the next generation of browsers? Can you help to make the web a slightly better place than where it is today? Various people from the Ajax community have put together a good list of feature requests (a total of over 40), collected at OpenAjax Runtime Task Force . Now [...]