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Aug. 20, 2008 10:00 AM

JustHackIt: It’s Like a Dating Site For Hackers

Got that hacking jones, but can’t find anyone to hack with? Head on over to JustHackIt, a site aimed at developers that launched last night. It is a place for developers to find each other, work on projects, and maybe even start a company. Developers can post projects they want to do and search through postings from other hackers. The site describes itself this way: The idea: Outside of Silicon Valley, lots of hackers are interested in web startups but don’t have a plethora of a

Aug. 20, 2008 09:55 AM

Summer 2008 road trip

Good morning everybody! This is Dave coming to you from Salt Lake City, UT. I'm on my Summer 2008 road trip. Started yesterday at 4AM, and got me into SLC at about 4PM. Stops include Laramie, WY; Boulder CO and on to Denver on Sunday for the Democratic National Convention. Then four days of watching, listening, talking, and thinking and then back on the road to do it all again! I tried to set up a LAN in my car, to no avail. There isn't much Sprint EVDO on the road between Reno and Salt Lake.

Aug. 20, 2008 06:02 AM

Flash Player 10 Security Changes

There are quite a few security changes in the upcoming Flash Player 10, some of which may require changes to content or policy files to ensure that content continues to work. Below are a couple of articles that discuss some of the security changes in Flash Player 10: Understanding the security changes in Flash Player 10 beta http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes.html Working with policy file changes in Flash Player 9 and Flash Player 10 beta http://www.adob

Aug. 20, 2008 12:40 AM

CEP vs. BRE - A TIBCO TTL (Top Ten List)

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: Top

Aug. 19, 2008 07:01 PM

Web Services Manifesto - RESTful Architecture and the Programmable Web

In this first post of many, I will be giving my personal opinion on the state of Web Services programming today. This post covers my thoughts on REST.

Aug. 19, 2008 08:31 AM

BlogWorld Expo Special Discount

If you're going to BlogWorld Expo, you can get an additional 20% off even the early-bird prices (they expire on August 22nd) by using this special code: "Alltopvip." This conference is in Las Vegas on September 19-21. Click here to register.

Aug. 19, 2008 02:30 AM

Worst. News analysis. Ever.

This could well be it. Of course, it may be fabricated, in which case, it’d be much less awfully funny, and funnily awful. [Tags: humor media ]

Aug. 18, 2008 06:55 PM

Flex Builder 3.01 and Flex SDK 3.1 released

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

Aug. 18, 2008 06:11 PM

Are Mashups the 'Agile' Part of Web 2.0?

I've been into computers since I was 4 years old. I went to an esteemed (so they tell me) computer science school, or at least that's what they tell me. I've worked for every kind of software shop: the Big 6 (now 4) consultancies, a couple of startups, and even 'the Big O' (yes, Oracle). So I thought I was familiar with most techniques, theories and approaches to software development. Well, it seems I missed one.About 8 weeks ago Deepak Alur, JackBe's ever-vigilant VP of Development, sent me

Aug. 18, 2008 10:49 AM

Will make three presentations in the next two days

Tomorrow, I'll be speaking in New York City at Enterprise Flex symposium. If you can't make it, on Wednesday, I'll be speaking in the evening at New Jersey Flex Users group (see http://www.njflex.com/ for details).Also, if you are a

Aug. 18, 2008 10:03 AM

FindBugs and PMD applied on J2EE 5

A list of project adaptations required to produce zero-errors reports with PMD and FindBugs while keeping the code fully compliant with J2EE 5.

Aug. 17, 2008 02:40 PM

Razor Profiler - An Automated JavaScript Profiling Tool

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: .imageLis

Aug. 16, 2008 10:47 PM

Bruce’s Loo

Yesterday was the final day of UX Week 2008, and our final speaker was Bruce Sterling. Though I’d heard of Bruce during the rise of cyberpunk, I was never all that aware of him until I attended South by Southwest Interactive in 1999. He was a legendary presence at the event, both providing the final thoughts to the attendees, and hosting a rocking party at his house. I had the fortune of Bruce speaking at another event of mine, IDEA 2006, where he did a remarkable job of summarizing the pr

Aug. 16, 2008 06:19 PM

ICOODB 2009, July 1-3, 2009, ETH Zurich

The second International Conference on Object Databases (ICOODB) will take place at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), on July 1-3, 2009.The ICOODB 2009 Conference Chair is Moira C. Norrie.I`d also like to inform you that a Steering Committee for the future series of ICOODB conferences has been created.The Steering Commitee is composed of:Mike Card, Mike Card, Syracuse Research Rick Cattell, consultant, William Cook, University of Texas at Austin, Stefan Edlich, FH BerlinMoira C. Norrie, ETH ZurichJam

Aug. 16, 2008 06:12 AM

TechWave Conclusions

Once again I thought this was one of the best TechWaves in years. Better than last years, which was good. Having my laptop crash on me when I’m scheduled to do four sessions wasn’t pleasant, and took the edge off of it for me. Otherwis

Aug. 14, 2008 11:47 PM

Twitter kills inbound SMS to UK.....

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

Aug. 14, 2008 09:34 AM

More on Cloud Computing from Dion Hinchcliffe

Dion Hinchcliffe recently provide a comprehensive overview of the status of cloud computing for the enterprise in his post, Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam. It is a good article for spinning your knowledge up on what this trend means today. He starts with the comment, ???The days when organizations carefully cultivated vast data centers consisting of an endless sea of hardware and software are not over, at least not yet. However, the groundwork for their eventual transformation and dow

Aug. 14, 2008 12:02 AM

Harmony

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.

Aug. 13, 2008 08:04 PM

Nature rules over robotics: Aibo toy-bone repurposed by puppy

Today our puppy discovered the pink toy-bone that originally came with the third generation of the Sony Aibo robotic dog: Sadly, the Aibo was canceled by Soiny in March 2006, but Fenway, our puppy, took possession and repurposed the pink Aibo toy-bone as a new chew-toy. It should be noted that the pink bone didn't last long. It's been proved once again: nature rules over robotics...

Aug. 12, 2008 05:27 PM

160+ TechWave Thank you's

Guys, Just a quick note to the presenters of the 160+ sessions at TechWave...

Aug. 12, 2008 09:51 AM

Brainstorming, italian style

While I should be officially on vacation since ten days, some job troubles have pursued me for a few days. Nevertheless, working in an enjoyable environment definitely boosts your productivity. In these days I'm pushing hard on fixing bugs and...

Aug. 12, 2008 07:23 AM

PB.Net Award

The VisualStudio Magazine recently held a reader's choice award for over 400 products and services - with PowerBuilder coming on strong ...

Aug. 10, 2008 04:59 PM

From deep within the bowels of SUN

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the SUN campus, where I was given a tour of a lab that makes James Bond's Q lab look like a childs room. We've forgotton what SUN actually do. Maybe they have too.Leave CommentRelated Entries:Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N810Speaking at CloudCamp LondonA simple Java API class for Amazon SimpleDBjava.lang.InternalError at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getResource()Google Web Toolkit Applications (Book Review)Google's GWT continues to amaze and delightOpen So

Aug. 7, 2008 07:50 AM

Nailguns and my 9-year old

My wife has allowed me to let my 9-year old daughter use a nailgun.

Aug. 6, 2008 10:26 AM

Joel on Software

Good System, Bad System

“I pass six Starbucks every morning on my walk to work. Just to clarify, that's counting only the Starbucks that are actually on the west side of Eighth Avenue in midtown Manhattan. I think there are some branches on the east side, but that

Posted: Jul. 29, 2008 11:59 PM

Pecha Kucha

We've already got a great lineup of speakers for the Business of Software conference: Seth Godin Eric Sink Steve Johnson Richard Stallman Paul Kenny Tom Jennings Dharmesh Shah Mike Milinkovich Jessica Livingston Jason Fried and me! Neil Davidson wa

Posted: Jul. 18, 2008 03:59 PM

Pecha Kucha

Posted: Jul. 18, 2008 03:59 PM

Annual Fog Creek Open House

Here at Fog Creek Software we get a lot of requests for a tour of the office, which we usually have to decline: we have this unusual obsession with giving programmers quiet working conditions. But once a year, we do have an open house. It's a rare c

Posted: Jul. 14, 2008 12:12 PM

Annual Fog Creek Open House

Posted: Jul. 14, 2008 12:12 PM

Don't hide or disable menu items

A long time ago, it became fashionable, even recommended, 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 t

Posted: Jul. 1, 2008 12:42 PM

Don't hide or disable menu items

Posted: Jul. 1, 2008 12:42 PM

Desks

A reader wrote in to ask what kind of desks we're going to be using for the new office. The ergonomics experts always want you to have your feet flat on the floor. So you have to adjust your seat height first. Then, your arms are supposed to be hor

Posted: Jun. 6, 2008 05:25 PM

Desks

Posted: Jun. 6, 2008 05:25 PM

StackOverflow podcasts moving to IT Conversations

Yes! I'm still doing those weekly podcasts with Jeff. We've already done eight of them. We're moving, though, to IT Conversations, a huge network of terrific audio shows about technology. Just looking at all the great shows they have there makes me

Posted: Jun. 5, 2008 12:21 PM