Today Plazes CEO Felix Petersen gave us a peek at iPlazer, the upcoming iPhone client for the geo-ta gging social networking site. The app will be available when Apple ’s official App Store launches on June 10th. Plazes has been around for a while - it was one of the first companies to be covered [...]

OK, some women are  concerned about sexism in IT.  Here&rsquo ;s what I think. First, I do not like when people curse in public .  Not just because that there are women in the audience, but it’s just plain wrong.Seco nd, there is v

Plane Lands Atop Another Plane, Inc redibly, No One Hurt

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 ...

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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...

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?

Congratula tions ... Sybase 4; IQ analytics server has set a new Guinness World Reco rd™ by ...

Guiness World Record - Sybase and Sun - a PetaByte sized data warehouse. Yes - size DOES matter.

Lots of new toys to play with. You can find all of the informatio n on labs.

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

Totally goofy but humorous Floppy Drive video. Updated: Realized that this video autoplayed so I subst ituted screenshot and which links to the original page. Technorati Tags: data transfer, Humor SHARETHIS. addEntry({ title: "Old School Data Transfer", url: "http ://sociali zedsoftwar e.com/2008 /05/13/old -school-da ta-transfe r/" });

Join us Aug. 4 ? 8 at the Mandalay Bay Resort &Casino in Las Vegas, NV... for the 10th Annual Sybase User Training and Solutions Conference .

Among the many reasons I’ve been posting so infrequent ly 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 f orthcoming , Stacy and I were already te chnically married, having done a San Francisco City Hall [...]

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 [...]

This years JavaOne was a not to be missed event. Here are my views on how the conference has changed.

New APIs, new algorithms and new pr ogramming language. Want more can a geek ask for?

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.

According to Forrester research wider handset av ailability , improved network coverage and new pricing models are going to foster rapid adoption of mobile internet services in Europe.By 2013 they predict that the number of people using the Internet via mobile phone will be 125 million - three times toda y's figure.  Some countries, such as the UK, will adopt even faste r. Im proved handset devices, such as the Iphone 2.0, improved networks, such as 3.5G, better network coverage, and fl