• Oracle Pulls the Plug on Postgres Servers

    Updated: 2010-07-31 21:15:00
    In early July Oracle suddenly and without warning shut down the three servers Sun contributed to the build and verify farm used to test developments in PostgreSQL, the open source database, according to itnews.com.au. The build farm is vital to PostgreSQL, which is sometimes cast these days as a possible alternative to MySQL but it’s really an alternative to Oracle’s own database, which is why IBM and Red Hat have equity positions in PostgreSQL commercializer EnterpriseDB. read more

  • Chocolate Treats

    Updated: 2010-07-31 17:11:39
    CHROMAom Log In Sign Up Username Password Lost Password COLOURlovers Browse Create Search Community Channels Trends Tools Store Palettes Patterns Colors Lovers Palette Pattern Color Palettes Patterns Colors Lovers Blog Forums Groups FAQ Business Craft Fashion Home Print Web Wedding Branding Handmade Interior Looks Magazines Street Fashion Websites Wedding Invites ColorSchemer Seamless Themeleon PHOTOCOPA COPASO Software Fabric Art Print Clothing Welcome . Here you'll find the latest home and interior-design focused Palettes and Patterns as well as Blog Trends and Forums to help guide your next interior design . project Channels Home Blog Chocolate Treats By Olan 31 July , 2010 0 comments Not too long ago I was having a conversation about chocolate and realized that one either loves it or

  • SAP Trails Oracle; Its On-Demand Widgetry About to Pop

    Updated: 2010-07-31 13:45:00
    SAP’s quarter didn’t turn out quite as well as Oracle’s, its great competitor. Oracle’s earnings in the calendar second quarter were up 25%, helped by the Sun acquisition. SAP’s profits were up 16% to $638 million (€491 million), or 52 cents a share, but not as much as the punters thought they should be and it didn’t boost its sales outlook as much as expected either. It did say that its acquisition of Sybase should increase software and software-related services by 9%–11% this year, up from 4%–8%, with an operating margin of 30%–31% and its Q2 results, especially in the U.S., where software revenue was up 64%, seem to indicate that the spending freeze has thawed. read more

  • Signposts for the Week Ending July 30, 2010

    Updated: 2010-07-30 21:52:09
    There are many Plants vs Zombies fans at Adaptive Path. This article on PopCap, and their design and development process, written before PvZ, is priceless. Some of their “casual” games take 3-4 years to develop, because they only release things they think are great. Here’s a more recent conversation with the founders. Brandon is quoted [...]

  • New Lightroom Tutorials from George Jardine

    Updated: 2010-07-30 16:27:38
    If you have been using Lightroom and involved with the Lightroom community for any length of time then one of the names that is sure to be familiar to you is George Jardine. George was involved with Lightroom from its beginning and was a Lightroom Evangelist at Adobe until he left in 2008 to explore new creative ventures. George Jardine started as a professional photographer. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Better Homes and Gardens, Interior Design magazine, and many other national publications. George first joined Adobe Systems in 1993, and in 2003, he began work on the Lightroom project. George currently teaches workshops, consults for digital photographers, and is a freelance video producer.

  • Augmented reality as etiquette coach

    Updated: 2010-07-30 15:48:13
    Alasdair Allen, author of Programming iPhone Sensors, says real-time facial identification -- the sort that pairs names and faces on the fly -- is closer than you might think. He expands on that topic and a number of others in this video interview.

  • Four short links: 30 July 2010

    Updated: 2010-07-30 11:29:18
    The No-Twinkie Database -- These are all the Twinkie Denial Conditions described in my “Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie!” Designer’s Notebook columns. Each one is an egregious design error, although many of them have appeared in otherwise great games. A collection of "don't do this" for app designers. (via waxy) Cloud Privacy Heat Map (Forrester) -- a map showing...

  • iPad Albums Via Publish Services

    Updated: 2010-07-29 13:27:12
    In the previous article, Creating iPad Albums With Lightroom, I talked about using Matt Kloskowski's export presets to create albums for your iPad. This method is accessible by both Lightroom 2 and Lightroom 3 users. However, if you have moved on to Lightroom 3 you can take advantage of one of its great new features--Publish Services. (Thanks to John Beardsworth whose comment on the previous article motivated me to get this article out of draft sooner rather than later!) A lot of the attention Publish Services has gotten revolves around the link between Lightroom and online services such as Flickr, Zenfolio, SmugMug, etc.. But the other side of this feature is the ability to create links between Lightroom and your drives. And it is this aspect we will exploit here.

  • AJAX Form Submit

    Updated: 2010-07-29 09:00:00
    Here is a simple example using the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI 2) javascript library to hijack a form's submit event and use AJAX to submit the form.

  • Unity 3 Preview – “Unity Bootcamp” Demo

    Updated: 2010-07-29 01:38:58
    Aquiris has been hard at work finishing up the new demo for Unity 3. Recently they posted a video of one of the playable levels of the demo and I thought people here would enjoy getting a longer look at it then the 20-30 second clips we’ve shown before.

  • Capturing health data in everyday life

    Updated: 2010-07-28 14:23:27
    In this audio interview, Paul Tarini, team director of the Pioneer Portfolio at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, discusses the health-care value of sleeping patterns, eating habits and other everyday data.

  • NaviSite Uses Oracle's Sun Servers for Managed Services Offering

    Updated: 2010-07-28 11:00:00
    NaviSite, Inc., a provider of complex hosting, application management and managed cloud services for the enterprise market, is using a combination of Oracle's Sun servers and Oracle software to run its mission-critical systems. With more than 1,500 customers in 10 datacenters across the US and UK, NaviSite needed to expand its virtualization platform to meet the growing infrastructure demands of its customers, while delivering industry-leading performance and availability. <a href="http://java.sys-con.com/node/1477933" target="_blank"read more

  • New Exadel Flamingo 2.2.0 Is Now on exadel.org

    Updated: 2010-07-26 23:00:00
    After months of promising we have finally moved Exadel Flamingo to exadel.org and released version 2.2.0. exadel.org is our community site for hosting open source projects. Flamingo is a light weight framework for connecting rich web and mobile user interfaces to enterprise back end. Flamingo connects Seam, Spring, and Java EE 6 (soon via CDI/JSR299) with the following user interfaces.read more

  • Exadel JavaFX Plug-in for Eclipse v. 1.3.4 with Organize Imports

    Updated: 2010-07-26 19:10:00
    Exadel has released Exadel JavaFX Plug-in for Eclipse version 1.3.4. The biggest feature in this release is Organize Imports (just like in Java editor). The class for Text node is missing, pressing Ctrl+Shift+O, will display the dialog where the correct class can be selected. You can also invoke Organize Imports from the editor context menu (right-click anywhere in the editor and select Organize Imports). You can also invoke Organize Imports from the editor context menu (right-click [...]read more

  • Paris SproutCore Meetup

    Updated: 2010-07-26 14:10:24
    We’re having a SproutCore meetup in Paris on Thursday, August 5th at 8:00 pm. Charles, the creator of SproutCore, will be here, as well as members of the core team. Whether you’re already familiar with the framework of just curious to know more about it, join us for a beer at the Café Léa. Hope to see you there!

  • Super Mono Icons

    Updated: 2010-07-23 16:52:07
    It’s been a while since my last blog update, but here we are again and this time I have brought you a massive icon set called Super Mono Icons. This initial release version included 1728 icons in various of styles and colours. Basically, the name of the icon set says everything. The icon set includes [...]

  • Rebranding

    Updated: 2010-07-23 06:29:36
    CHROMAom Log In Sign Up Username Password Lost Password COLOURlovers Browse Create Search Community Channels Trends Tools Store Palettes Patterns Colors Lovers Palette Pattern Color Palettes Patterns Colors Lovers Blog Forums Groups FAQ Business Craft Fashion Home Print Web Wedding Branding Handmade Interior Looks Magazines Street Fashion Websites Wedding Invites ColorSchemer Seamless Themeleon PHOTOCOPA COPASO Software Fabric Art Print Clothing Welcome . Here you'll find Palettes and Patterns as well as a Blog Trends and Forums to help guide your colorful business decisions . Channels Business Blog Rebranding By evad 23 July , 2010 3 comments From iconic brands like Minute Maid and the Girl Scouts of the USA , to small design shops and subversive artist collectives , maintaining a

  • Thursday Thilliness at Adaptive Path

    Updated: 2010-07-22 22:08:16
    On an internal mailing list, we’ve had a thread titled “Social is not a channel,” spurred by Andrew’s tweet, “‘Social’ is not a channel. It is people having a conversation over multiple channels. A successful strategy addresses those concurrently.” The conversation was quite good, and then, as such things do, descended into silliness. At one [...]

  • Enterprise Applications are Good Candidates for Using JavaFX

    Updated: 2010-07-22 19:27:00
    Welcome Register Sign-in Search Jump to a Magazine NET AJAX APACHE CLOUD COMPUTING CMS COLDFUSION CRM ECLIPSE FLEX HP IPHONE JAVA LINUX OPEN SOURCE OPEN WEB ORACLE PERL PHP POWERBUILDER PYTHON RED HAT RUBY SAP SEARCH SILVERLIGHT SOA SYMBIAN VIDEO VIRTUALIZATION WEB 2.0 WEBLOGIC WEBSPHERE WIRELESS XML Home Subscribe Advertise Authors Topics Videos Events Webcasts Java : Email Alerts Newsletters Get Java : Homepage Mobile NET AJAX Cloud Eclipse Flex Open Web iPhone Java Linux Open Source Oracle PowerBuilder Security SOA Virtualization Web 2.0 Java Authors : Vijay Subramanian Max Katz Pat Romanski Liz McMillan Pieter Humphrey Related Topics : Java Cloud Expo Java : Blog Post Enterprise Applications are Good Candidates for Using JavaFX JavaFX Applications which Allows us to Build Rich and

  • My Upcoming Speaking Schedule

    Updated: 2010-07-22 16:45:21

  • Jinfonet Announces JReport 10

    Updated: 2010-07-22 16:35:00
    Jinfonet Software, a provider of Java reporting solutions, on Thursday unveiled JReport 10. This new version adds rich visualization and interactive reporting to a robust, agile BI platform, providing embedded operational reporting to developers and self-service reporting to end users. JReport 10 brings Agile Business Intelligence to the next level with rich visualization features. Web 2.0 self-service reporting allows highly interactive reports to be accessible across the enterprise with superior performance and scalability.read more

  • Scrolling Share Button for Social Networking Sites

    Updated: 2010-07-22 09:00:00
    Using YUI to add a scrolling share button for sites like Twitter, Facebook, Digg, and Stumble Upon.

  • “Frictionless” as an alternative to “simplicity” in design

    Updated: 2010-07-22 01:20:39
    On a client project, we were trying to articulate a set of high-level principles to explain desired media experiences. One of the first ones we came up with was “simplicity”, but realized that it was insufficient. One of the challenges is that “simplicity” has become overloaded, and as Don Norman pointed out, when he wrote [...]

  • Levels of Disruption in Customer Acquisition

    Updated: 2010-07-20 17:33:25
    I tweeted something last night and I wanted to get your collective take on it. I think I’m right, but I also know that there are nuances and exceptions to this. “The newer the customer relationship is with a brand, the more disruptive the experience needs to be.” What I mean by this is that [...]

  • A Storied Presentation

    Updated: 2010-07-19 22:04:27
    We communicate with other people every day. Over the course of our lives we’ve developed verbal, written and visual communication skills that help us convey our thoughts. From time to time, we find ourselves in a position to share these ideas in a business context, often in the form of a presentation. And, it’s usually [...]

  • Exploring Persistence Settings - Part 5

    Updated: 2010-07-19 21:23:42
    In Part 4 I discussed the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse and how it allows you to view, create, and manage JPA entity relationships. The Entity Editor provides a centralized view of all entity relationships, allows you to modify entity properties, and allows you to navigate between the object model, mapping associations, and database schema layers. In Part 5, I will explore persistence settings. The persistence.xml file defines the context for JPA persistence. In this step, you will use the JPA Persistence Configuration Editor to explore the persistence.xml file for your JPA web project. read more

  • Design and Technology, Sitting in a Tree…

    Updated: 2010-07-19 20:09:07
    One constant that has stood the test of time in new media/technology projects has been the tension between designers and developers. There have been very few places I have worked where this tension was not one of the central issues holding back teams from generating successful final products. We, as a community, have tried countless [...]

  • Signposts for the week ending July 16, 2010

    Updated: 2010-07-16 21:23:50
    This week we found out that Google is for pandas not lobsters We were charmed by Ryan and Mike’s lovely picture book. We were interested in Paul Adams’ research and discoveries about The Real Life Social Network And we enjoyed some very small celebrities. We are reading Bruce Temkin on The ROI of Customer Experience: [...]

  • your ipad rapid prototyping tool: keynote

    Updated: 2010-07-16 06:11:16
    Several years ago I wrote about the virtues of Keynote as a prototyping tool. In a nutshell: it’s fast, it doesn’t require code writing, and you can turn it into flash and present it over the web. This week I was shocked with the inventive but pragmatic application of Keynote as a prototyping tool for [...]

  • BIRT and OLAP

    Updated: 2010-07-15 19:15:00
    BIRT Introduced OLAP style data cubes and crosstabs in version 2.2 and while they have been around for some time we still get a lot of questions on how to use and manipulate them. Below are just some of the resources that have been posted to BIRT Exchange that should help you with cubes and crosstabs. To get an idea of what a BIRT cube is and how to tie it to a crosstab report item, take a look at this article which provides a detailed write-up of the technology and supplies some examples. To see a recorded demonstration of a crosstab style report being build see this tutorial video.read more

  • Save the date for Unite 2010!

    Updated: 2010-07-14 16:02:25
    Yup, you read that right, it’s that time of year again, the time to get yourself ready for this year’s edition of our annual developer’s conference, Unite 2010! Unite 2010 November 10-12, 2010 Montreal, Quebec Canada Once again, Unite 2010 will bring artists, programmers, designers, researchers, publishers, and other Unity enthusiasts from around the world together for three intense [...]

  • Wicket from the point of view of a PHP developer

    Updated: 2010-07-14 15:55:10
    Not long ago, I had to learn some Wicket. What is that? In this case it has nothing to do with cricket – The Wicket I’m talking about is a Java web application framework. I’ve mostly used PHP and Python to do server-side web application sort of programming. Compared to what I’m used to, Wicket [...]

  • Unity 3 Feature Preview – Cloth Physics

    Updated: 2010-07-13 14:13:35
    And the preview videos keep rolling in! We’re running a little behind on the Beast lightmapping video, but until then take a look at some of the new Cloth Physics features in Unity 3. Will Goldstone is back giving us a brief tour of just a few of the things you can do with Cloth [...]

  • Healthcare IT News: Health 2.0 2010 Developer Challenge

    Updated: 2010-07-13 01:23:03
    This is a wonderful community effort! The Health 2.0 2010 Developer Challenge was launched on June 2nd, 2010 at the Community Health Data Initiative (CHDI) meeting at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), with support from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Here’s what it’s all about: Health 2.0’s original tag line of ‘user-generated [...]

  • unittest2 0.5.0: setuptools compatible test collector and Python 2.3 distribution

    Updated: 2010-07-11 20:02:03
    Voidspace The website , technical blog and projects of Michael Foord Home Blog Book IronPython Python Projects Python Articles Contact Python Programming , news on the Voidspace Python Projects and all things . techie Front page All By Date All By Category RSS Feed 1185 tox : Testing projects with multiple versions of Python mock is tested on Python 2.4 upwards . Running all the tests is done with unittest2 test discovery , so up until now I've had several scripts for running the tests with different versions of Python . Not difficult , but a . pain Enter a new project by the prodigious Holger : Krekel tox : virtualenv-based automation To use tox you create a simple config file tox.ini specifying the test command and Python versions and tox will create a virtualenv for each Python version

  • WLST and Security Configuration

    Updated: 2010-07-08 13:30:00
    WebLogic Server Scripting Tool (WLST) provides powerful command-line capability for system administrators and developers to configure WebLogic server environments. However, its usage and adoption does not reach its full potential, seen at many working places, due to various reasons. This article gives a detailed example of using WLST to configure some of the latest security provisions (SAML 2.0) of WebLogic server, and provides insights on how to overcome the possible hurdles which prevent one from using the tool. Why WLST and What's Stopping You?read more

  • Smashing Magazine: 40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design Patterns

    Updated: 2010-07-08 05:12:31
    User interface design patterns are common researched and reusable solutions to frequent user interface problems. There are a number of user interface pattern repositories. This article in Smashing Magazine lists over 40 resources for user interface design patterns. Here’s what they say about it: In this article, we share with you the best of the best, [...]

  • Monty Appeals Oracle’s Acquisition of Sun

    Updated: 2010-07-07 13:30:00
    He said he was going to do it and he has. MySQL founder Monty Widenius has made good his quixotic threat to appeal the European Commission’s decision to approve Oracle’s acquisition of Sun – and with it MySQL, which Sun paid a downright silly billion dollars for two years ago. Oracle closed on Sun in January and Widenius had a few months grace to take his case to the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. It is unclear what he hopes to accomplish since he has basically gone underground and turned off his phone while the futility of the move has already cost him his chief spokesman Florian Mueller. read more

  • RFP: Unity to Award 60 Android Smart Phones to Schools

    Updated: 2010-07-07 01:02:08
    Hello Unity Community. This is my first blog post and I’m happy to be sharing some very exciting news. I joined Unity almost two months ago to assist with commercial and institutional licensing. In my short time here, Unity has maintained a whirlwind pace of product announcements, resource partnerships, tech demos and [...]

  • PyCrypto 2.1 for Python 2.7 on Windows

    Updated: 2010-07-05 23:23:47
    Voidspace The website , technical blog and projects of Michael Foord Home Blog Book IronPython Python Projects Python Articles Contact Python Programming , news on the Voidspace Python Projects and all things . techie Front page All By Date All By Category RSS Feed 1183 PyCrypto 2.1 for Python 2.7 on Windows Now that Python 2.7 final is out I've compiled PyCrypto 2.1 for . Windows The new build is available for download along with the other : binaries PyCrypto 2.1 for 32bit Windows and Python 2.7 Unfortunately compiling PyCrypto for 64bit Windows AMD64 architecture is non-trivial so I am unable to provide binary . builds I've also tried compiling pysco for Python 2.7 both psyco 1.6 and psyco v2 Unfortunately psyco is not yet compatible with Python 2.7. Christian Tismer is aware of this and

  • Electronic Pill Bottle Cap Increases Medication Use, Study Says

    Updated: 2010-07-05 06:02:37
    Finally, technologists provide enhancements to healthcare usability! Usability of medicine pill bottles, that is!! I work on the usability of healthcare software systems. I’m glad to see that usability professionals are also working on medical devices and other areas of people’s life impacted by their health. Here’s a summary of the study: Experimental electronic pill [...]

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