• Python Version Poll Results

    Updated: 2010-08-31 16:34:23
    The results are in for the first annual LearningPython.com Python version quiz: By a landslide version 2.6 is the winner, with 3.1 and 2.5 following far behind. A grand total of 1084 people voted and 700 of those still use Python 2.6, 187 use 3.1 and 182 use 2.5. While not the largest sampling of [...]

  • Hacking Fixed, and Python on the Web

    Updated: 2010-08-31 16:34:23
    Hey Everyone, just an update on the last post. I was able to dig through the wordpress files and find where the hack was and it appears to be fixed now. Again if you notice anything strange happening here, redirects to external sites and whatnot, please let me know. Also, does anyone here use any [...]

  • Four short links: 31 August 2010

    Updated: 2010-08-31 11:22:56
    Rules for Revolutionaries -- Carl Malamud's talk to the WWW2010 Conference. Video, slides, and text available. Self-Improving Bayesian Sentiment Analysis for Twitter -- a how-I-did-it for a homegrown project to do sentiment analysis on Twitter. LUXR -- the Lean User Experience Residency program. LUXr brings user experience and design services to early stage teams in a lower cost, more...

  • Four short links: 30 August 2010

    Updated: 2010-08-31 08:48:24
    Free as in Smokescreen (Mike Shaver) -- H.264, one of the ways video can be delivered in HTML5, is covered by patents. This prevents Mozilla from shipping an H.264 player, which fragments web video. The MPEG LA group who manage the patents for H.264 did a great piece of PR bullshit, saying "this will be permanently royalty-free to consumers"....

  • Why project managers should care about development

    Updated: 2010-08-31 01:00:34
    In a recent post on Building Better Software, I wrote about why developers should care about project management. But I think it's worth making the opposite case: why project managers should care about development.

  • JavaOne May Be Dead

    Updated: 2010-08-29 14:15:00
    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 : Steve Pieczko AccuRev Communications Fuat Kircaali Yakov Fain Maureen O'Gara Related Topics : Java Oracle Java : Blog Post JavaOne May Be Dead Google pulls out all 17 of its presentations from the upcoming conference in San Francisco By

  • Interior Design Trends: Deep Orange

    Updated: 2010-08-28 16:00:55
    : 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 Interior Design Trends : Deep Orange By Olan 28 August , 2010 0 comments This summer has been a rough one as far as heat and humidity go . Not something

  • Vale Java? Scala Vala palava - and Go too

    Updated: 2010-08-28 07:30:49
    Dave Megginson (who drove the development of the SAX API that will be familiar to many XML developers who use Java) recently wrote Java is dead. Java stood out as a programming language (though not as a platform) in that...

  • US Court Grounds Taiwan CEO

    Updated: 2010-08-28 05:00:00
    A US court has told Chen Lai-juh, the CEO of Taiwan LCD screen maker AU Optronics Corporation, not to leave the country until his trial on Justice Department-brought charges of price-fixing is over. A federal grand jury indicted Chen and a half-dozen other AU officials of years of price fixing back in June. Alleged victims include IBM, Apple and Dell. Six LCD suppliers had pleaded guilty to price fixing and have been ordered to pay upwards of $860 million in fines.read more

  • Signposts for the Week Ending August 27, 2010

    Updated: 2010-08-28 00:03:49
    The Myth of the Fold. If we put this link further down the page, will you still find it? http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of “People said that a tape player, which could not record, would never catch on.” Oh yeah? http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/SonyHistory/2-06.html#block3 This indestructible soccer ball goes to show you that inspiration can strike for just about anything. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/18/BUT61EF67O.DTL This [...]

  • Gnash 0.8.8: A Huge Improvement Over Previous Versions

    Updated: 2010-08-27 23:01:28
    Early this week Gnash 0.8.8 was released. Despite the small increment in version number, which would make this seem like a minor maintenance release, the difference between version 0.8.8 and the earlier 0.8.7 is like night and day.

  • Four short links: 27 August 2010

    Updated: 2010-08-27 16:49:29
    Working Audio Data Demos -- the new Firefox has a very sweet audio data API and some nifty demos like delay pedals, a beat detector (YouTube) and a JavaScript text-to-speech generator. (via jamesaduncan on Twitter) Estimating the Economic Impact of Mass Digitization Projects on Copyright Holders: Evidence from the Google Book Search Litigation -- [T]he revenues and profits of...

  • My Favorite Slogan Explained

    Updated: 2010-08-26 17:00:56
    Someone asked me recently about mattfrye-isms. If you've ever worked for or with me, you've heard them, and I have a favorite. They asked me why I say it. Is it cool? Is it funny? Well, it can be...

  • Now you can write PHP code… without writing any code

    Updated: 2010-08-26 16:17:38
    Yes, you heard that right! You can now code in PHP without having to write a single line of code – amazing, right? The application that makes this possible is called Lemon ADE, and it runs on the iPad. In this post I’ll go over how Lemon ADE works, and I have also recorded a [...]

  • Four short links: 26 August 2010

    Updated: 2010-08-26 11:25:16
    Germany's Industrial Expansion Fueled by Absence of Copyright Law? (Der Spiegel) -- fascinating article about the extraordinary publishing output in 1800s Germany vs other nations, all with no effective and enforceable copyright laws. Sigismund Hermbstdt, for example, a chemistry and pharmacy professor in Berlin, who has long since disappeared into the oblivion of history, earned more royalties for his...

  • Cloud Storage Becoming a Commodity

    Updated: 2010-08-25 23:00:00
    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 : Steve Pieczko AccuRev Communications Fuat Kircaali Yakov Fain Maureen O'Gara Related Topics : Java Cloud Expo Java : Blog Feed Post Cloud Storage Becoming a Commodity Hard drive is a commodity . Whether it is IDE , EIDE or SATA , you buy

  • Feed the Habit: Digital Multitasking

    Updated: 2010-08-25 19:02:45
    During a recent research and strategy project at Adaptive Path, our team uncovered a fascinating pattern around media multitasking—most participants between 20 and 30 years of age watched TV or movies while engaging with laptops, iPads, and smart phones. Our team was able to categorize this behavior into levels of multitasking ranging from backgrounding, which was [...]

  • Larry to Keynote JavaOne

    Updated: 2010-08-25 13:00:00
    Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is supposedly going to open his mind on the subject of Java, the prime reason he bought Sun. He’s supposed to deliver the keynote at JavaOne the middle of September and, along with Oracle EVP Thomas Kurian, discuss Oracle’s vision and strategy for Java. There’s unlikely to be bigger news than Oracle suing Google 10 days ago for Android trespassing on its Java widgetry. JavaOne is supposed to be part of OracleWorld in San Francisco September 19-23.read more

  • Signposts for the Week Ending 8/20/2010

    Updated: 2010-08-23 22:47:06
    Here’s a rundown of the interesting, peculiar and inspiring nuggets that crossed our paths last week: Chula Carlson, our fabulous Controller, wrote her first (and dare we say, AWESOME) AP newsletter article, Accounting for Experience. We were intrigued by how the NY Times creates infographics. We also found some cool gamelike apps that help kids [...]

  • New Online Learning Resources

    Updated: 2010-08-23 02:36:14
    As a follow-up to my Getting Started with Unity blog post, I wanted to bring your attention to three recent tutorial sites: First up is design3, a subscription based site created by Noesis Interactive, who create professional courseware for Universities. They have over 200 Unity specific videos and more on the way. Whether an educator, a [...]

  • Adobe CS4 Icon Replacement: Adouble

    Updated: 2010-08-22 20:41:08
    Adouble is a set of replacement icons for the Adobe CS4 applications and file extensions designed by me and released recently on Icondock. It includes the icons of the major Adobe applications (i.e. Acobat family, After Effects, Audition, Bridge, ColdFusion, Contribute, Dreamwaver, Encore, Fireworks, Flash family, Flex, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, LifeCycle, OnLocation, Photoshop family, Premiere, [...]

  • REST Security at JavaOne

    Updated: 2010-08-21 11:00:00
    I'm speaking with Vikas Jain from Oracle at Java One (co-located with Oracle Open World this year) on the topic of REST Security. The session link is below:read more

  • Process-Centric Architecture for IT Systems

    Updated: 2010-08-21 06:45:00
    This provides an introduction to the architecture style namely, process-centric architecture (PCA). PCA is suited for IT systems in the enterprise.read more

  • Interior Design Trends: Black & Silver

    Updated: 2010-08-21 06:08:13
    : 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 Interior Design Trends : Black Silver By Olan 21 August , 2010 1 comments Black is such a mysterious color that a wide variety of words can describe .

  • Is Oracle the Java Killer?

    Updated: 2010-08-20 10:45:00
    Is Oracle the Java killer? Probably not. Java is too strong to be killed. Will Oracle's lawsuit Against Google Put a Chill on Java Adoption? When Oracle acquired Sun, I thought it was a wrong decision. It seems that Oracle's managers reached a similar conclusion and are trying to minimize the amount of money they lose. The lawsuit against Google is one of the ways to achieve it. However, this lawsuit supports the concerns about Java after Oracle acquired Sun.read more

  • Unity SF Summer Party

    Updated: 2010-08-19 21:43:24
    We’re having a great Summer: We passed the 200,000 user mark, we passed the 30 million webplayer mark, we won the Develop Grand Prix, and we’re getting ready to ship Unity 3. To celebrate all this, we decided to throw a party.  For our blog readers who happen to find themselves in the SF bay [...]

  • Observing the Customer Experience

    Updated: 2010-08-19 01:29:28
    Mark Hust of Good Experience runs a wildly successful and informative conference, Gel, every year that focuses on user experience. One of the key speakers was Alex Lee, president of OXO. From Good Experience’s blog: Product developers everywhere could learn a lesson from OXO’s angled measuring cup (shown here), which was born out of some [...]

  • The Value of Automating Application Deployments

    Updated: 2010-08-18 12:30:00
    Estimate the value of automating your application deployments and overall software delivery Take two minutes to determine the value your organization could attain. The IBM Rational software delivery automation value estimators illustrate how your organization can be positively impacted by the use of Rational automation software solutions.read more

  • Lesson #2 From Pandora: The Magic Of One-Click

    Updated: 2010-08-17 04:27:46
    Nearly four years ago, I wrote a post “The Lure of the Single Click”, about interfaces that support successful engagement through a single click of a button. Having just completed a ginormous future-of-media project, I found myself thinking of this again. Among our project activities was 24 in-depth interviews in people’s homes to understand their [...]

  • Lesson #1 From Pandora: The PCs’ Return to being Productivity Tools

    Updated: 2010-08-17 00:48:45
    Just a couple years ago, Pandora was laying people off, fomenting concern over survival. Just a few weeks ago, they announced tremendous growth. It’s no secret that a key to their growth has been in non-PC devices, notably smartphones — somewhere between 40 and 50% of their audience listens on mobile devices up from 0% [...]

  • Service Design Thinks SF with Elena Pacenti: 08/17 6pm

    Updated: 2010-08-16 18:30:34
    We are delighted to welcome Elena Pacenti to Service Design Thinks in SF! Elena is the director of a brand new masters program in service design at the Domus Academy in Milan. Once again, Service Design Thinks (and Drinks) will be returning to Adaptive Path on Tuesday, August 17th from 6–9 pm (we’re still looking [...]

  • Exceptions and abstraction

    Updated: 2010-08-14 22:30:23
    So you already know how to handle your errors properly. Even if you’re already using exceptions, there are some nuances to the use of exceptions that are important to know and understand in order to write code that is easier to reuse and more decoupled. Let’s talk about exceptions and how they relate to your [...]

  • Signposts for the Week Ending August 13, 2010

    Updated: 2010-08-13 22:45:08
    This week started off quite nicely for San Francisco as ground was broken on the new eco-friendly Transbay Terminal. The Center for Neighborhood Technology has a very cool tool that maps 161,000 American neighborhoods and adds the transportation costs to the housing costs in a given place so you can see how affordable (or not) [...]

  • How To Torture a User Experience Designer

    Updated: 2010-08-13 20:38:26
    We bounced this idea off the walls inside Adaptive Path and came up with a list of our favorite, excruciating scenarios: Sit them down in front of another awkwardly designed seat-back media player…on a plane….for 5 hours. Send them this photo, tell them it was taken somewhere in their 10 story office building…but don’t tell [...]

  • Adaptive Path at SXSW 2011 – Please support our sessions!

    Updated: 2010-08-13 17:51:33
    A few of us have submitted sessions for SXSW Interactive 2011, and it would be great if you showed your support by voting for them in the panel picker. Leslie submitted Behavior Design: Stop Being Neutral, Start Influencing Decisions, about how design can be used to encourage positive social change. Alexa, now CEO of Foodspotting, [...]

  • No more vacation: How technology is stealing our lives

    Updated: 2010-08-13 04:25:46
    Have we become too dependent on our mobile computers and devices? This article answers the question: “E-mail and smart phones were supposed to liberate us. So why does it feel like we never have any free time?” Things may have gotten worse than we thought: “There’s been a lot written about how the beeping and [...]

  • The JSConf presentation that started it all.  Now available on...

    Updated: 2010-08-13 01:11:06
    . . Home Download Wiki Screencasts Blog Archive RSS Feed Search posts : SproutCore Blog okito August 12 The JSConf presentation that started it all . Now available on blip.tv JSConf 2010 Comments View Permalink blog comments powered by Disqus copyright 2008-2009, Sprout Systems , Inc . All rights reserved . Found a problem with the site No problem . It's open source

  • The Unofficial History of Java Applets

    Updated: 2010-08-11 03:42:00
    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 : Steve Pieczko AccuRev Communications Fuat Kircaali Yakov Fain Maureen O'Gara Related Topics : Java Adobe Flex Java : Blog Feed Post The Unofficial History of Java Applets RIA started with Java applets . Where are they now By Yakov Fain

  • Meet-up Event [Thu, Aug 12] Meet the Layar Augmented Reality folks

    Updated: 2010-08-09 18:21:08
    C’mon, admit it. You’ve drooled over the nifty augmented reality stuff and thought…”gee, how can I get involved?” Look no further! Come to the Layar Meetup at Adaptive Path this Thursday and learn how you, too can make augmented reality your reality. Meet the ultra-cool Layar team at Adaptive Path this Thursday, Aug 12, 6-8pm. [...]

  • Unity’s New SF Hood

    Updated: 2010-08-08 19:24:26
    Last weekend the staff of Unity’s SF office were setting desks up in our new office. We’re now in the historic Jackson Square neighborhood nestled between China Town, North Beach, the Financial District, and the Embarcadero. We’ve been in our new space for a week now and I really love it! Not only is it great to [...]

  • Calling Custom Web Services in SharePoint from JavaScript (or jQuery)

    Updated: 2010-08-06 20:00:00
    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 : Corey Roth Chris Muir Al Soucy Julie Cobb Andreas Grabner Related Topics : Java SOA WOA NET Java : Blog Post Calling Custom Web Services in SharePoint from JavaScript or jQuery A tip to remember By Corey Roth Article : Rating Select

  • JDev Contextual Events: PayLoad, Payload, ah, Pay Load

    Updated: 2010-08-06 19:45:00
    Within the contextual event framework, effectively there is a "producer" task flow and a "consumer" task flow. The producer publishes a contextual event, and the consumer subscribes to the contextual event. It's all rather handily described in Section 28.7.1 of the Fusion Guide How to Create Contextual Events Declaratively The publisher can pass a data payload (payLoad, PayLoad, um, pay load?) to the consumer. The publisher users an EL expression to extract data from their local bindings to do this, maybe something like #{bindings.employeeNo.inputValue}, which would be familiar to ADF programmers. The consumer however needs to use an EL expression #{payLoad} to capture the data from the published event.read more

  • iPhone 4 Mini Icons

    Updated: 2010-08-06 15:28:10
    Here we are pleased to introduce this nice icon set named iPhone 4 Mini Icons. The set is in a cute 3D style and includes 40 standard iPhone icons in different sizes (from 64 pixels to high resolution 512 pixels) and in both black and white colour schemes. Also vector source files (Adobe Illustrator CS4 version) [...]

  • Managed Methods Announces the Release of JaxView 6.0

    Updated: 2010-08-06 14:30:00
    Managed Methods Inc., a provider of SOA (service-oriented architecture) & Cloud governance, has announced the availability of their JaxView 6.0. While providing full support for SOA & Cloud management for the IT operations, JaxView 6.0 expanded runtime policy enforcement features such as expanded service virtualization and security federation. "We are very pleased with our customer adoption of JaxView for SOA & Cloud governance for monitoring and securing such environments." states Al Aghili Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Managed Methods Inc.read more

  • Possibly Hacked 2.0

    Updated: 2010-08-04 06:33:45
    Just to let everyone who still reads this blog that it looks as though I have been hacked again. Please don’t believe the rumours, I am not selling, nor will I ever, levitra online. If you notice anything strange in the text on this blog, or you end up redirected to some strange site, please [...]

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