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As I’ve become more or less a web 2.0 whore. I’ve also had a great interest in web 3.0 and what it will fortell. Most believe natural language and the semantic web will play a large role in that. And while it will that will not be the end result of web 3.0. While web 2.0 included AJAX and Flex, that really doesn’t fully encompass what they are. Web 3.0 to sum it up most simply will be about reducing the noise of the web. While I can take ve....
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As I’ve become more or less a web 2.0 whore. I’ve also had a great interest in web 3.0 and what it will fortell. Most believe natural language and the semantic web will play a large role in that. And while it will that will not be the end result of web 3.0. While web 2.0 included AJAX and Flex, that really doesn’t fully encompass what they are. Web 3.0 to sum it up most simply will be about reducing the noise of the web. While I can take ve....
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Every so often I re-read a book that I read years ago to remember what it is about. Mostly, I re-read sci-fi or notable works such as Neuromancer (William Gibson) or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) since those are the types of books that I kept over the years. However, I kept a book from 1989 called Life with UNIX (Don Libes & Sandy Ressler) that I remember using as a good UNIX reference a long time ago. ..
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Every so often I re-read a book that I read years ago to remember what it is about. Mostly, I re-read sci-fi or notable works such as Neuromancer (William Gibson) or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) since those are the types of books that I kept over the years. However, I kept a book from 1989 called Life with UNIX (Don Libes & Sandy Ressler) that I remember using as a good UNIX reference a long time ago. ..
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Products Company - For me this may the be most obvious and strongest reason for any of the four groups to begin using Twitter. It’s quite simple, people use your product or service, people talk about your product or service, people ARE talking about your product or service on Twitter. Regardless of whether you want it or not, people are going to talk and they’ll speak their minds. I don’t believe I know of a company that wouldn’t want to kn....
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Products Company - For me this may the be most obvious and strongest reason for any of the four groups to begin using Twitter. It’s quite simple, people use your product or service, people talk about your product or service, people ARE talking about your product or service on Twitter. Regardless of whether you want it or not, people are going to talk and they’ll speak their minds. I don’t believe I know of a company that wouldn’t want to kn....
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As my previous Norwegian language article turned out to be one of the all time top hit articles in my blog, I will continue to write a few articles in Norwegian. This one is on an idea on how to do reseach on the success of agile projects. Next week, I will return to another popular topic: Testing. Under paneldebatten på Geilo-seminaret til Dataforeningen, satt Magne Jørgensen meg, Lars Arne Skår og Niklas Bjørnerstedt litt til veggs med et..
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At the time one startup that would be a prime example of what I’m about to detail did not come to mind. Salesforce, salesforce has a respectable feature list, yet is also one of the web companies that has managed to scale well. The interesting thing about web companies is the best ones are the ones that can truly scale to a mass audience. Many can offer an okay service, but scaling that service is a truly difficult task. Many would argue ....
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At the time one startup that would be a prime example of what I’m about to detail did not come to mind. Salesforce, salesforce has a respectable feature list, yet is also one of the web companies that has managed to scale well. The interesting thing about web companies is the best ones are the ones that can truly scale to a mass audience. Many can offer an okay service, but scaling that service is a truly difficult task. Many would argue ....
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I’ve heard that mobile devices will be everywhere and will replace computers for what seems like decades, but is probably growing on 6 or 7 years now. The thing is I don’t really need a desktop with me every where I go. Seldom am I somewhere and I wish I had access to Microsoft Office or wish I had Eclipse or Visual Studio. While I concede that I occasionally watch youtube on my IPhone, this is far more rare than it is common. Most of the t....
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I’ve heard that mobile devices will be everywhere and will replace computers for what seems like decades, but is probably growing on 6 or 7 years now. The thing is I don’t really need a desktop with me every where I go. Seldom am I somewhere and I wish I had access to Microsoft Office or wish I had Eclipse or Visual Studio. While I concede that I occasionally watch youtube on my IPhone, this is far more rare than it is common. Most of the t....
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After a year of living in Silicon Valley it’s hard not to be consumed with the excitement around one startup after the next. The hopes of being the next eBay, Google, or Facebook lie within many of individuals in the area. Some pursue it, some write it off as a distant hope, and still others just want to be a part of them at some point. But why would someone just want to be a part of Google 5 years ago? The first thing that comes to mind ....
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After a year of living in Silicon Valley it’s hard not to be consumed with the excitement around one startup after the next. The hopes of being the next eBay, Google, or Facebook lie within many of individuals in the area. Some pursue it, some write it off as a distant hope, and still others just want to be a part of them at some point. But why would someone just want to be a part of Google 5 years ago? The first thing that comes to mind ....
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I went to go and do some roller racing earlier this week, at a pub called the Horseshoe in Clerkenwell. The Rollapaluza guys were being filmed, and running a free-for-all race. First time on the rollers, I managed 23.48s, which turned out (once a couple of people had disappeared) to be good enough to get me to the quarter finals. clefty from LondonFGSS took a few photos, so I figured I’d post them here:
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I went to go and do some roller racing earlier this week, at a pub called the Horseshoe in Clerkenwell. The Rollapaluza guys were being filmed, and running a free-for-all race. First time on the rollers, I managed 23.48s, which turned out (once a couple of people had disappeared) to be good enough to get me to the quarter finals. clefty from LondonFGSS took a few photos, so I figured I’d post them here:
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Twitter is great for a few key reasons, first let me highlight the two key uses I feel it has in the enterprise.
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Twitter is great for a few key reasons, first let me highlight the two key uses I feel it has in the enterprise.
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Adobe AIR is a game changer, if people would build for it...
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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18 years ago
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Spend five minutes talking to me about technology or business and you’ll quickly realize I’m a fan of Adobe AIR. Adobe has done a very good job building a cross-platform runtime, and providing tools that make the transition from the web to the desktop quite minimal. First to elaborate why I like AIR. For one I’m a fan of web 2.0, the sites feel cleaner, smoother, and drive new capabilities. Versus most desktop applications that are starti....
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Adobe AIR is a game changer, if people would build for it...
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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18 years ago
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Spend five minutes talking to me about technology or business and you’ll quickly realize I’m a fan of Adobe AIR. Adobe has done a very good job building a cross-platform runtime, and providing tools that make the transition from the web to the desktop quite minimal. First to elaborate why I like AIR. For one I’m a fan of web 2.0, the sites feel cleaner, smoother, and drive new capabilities. Versus most desktop applications that are starti....
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As I write this, I write only from my vague knowledge of where revenue’s come directly from. However, I do hope to back this up in the future with more numeric backing. My title of the post may be quite strong and negative, but I feel it has reasonable ground to stand on, based on one simple principle. A corporation should stick to and focus on it’s core business, and exhausting resources outside it’s core business could end up costing them....
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As I write this, I write only from my vague knowledge of where revenue’s come directly from. However, I do hope to back this up in the future with more numeric backing. My title of the post may be quite strong and negative, but I feel it has reasonable ground to stand on, based on one simple principle. A corporation should stick to and focus on it’s core business, and exhausting resources outside it’s core business could end up costing them....
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What is the secret to happiness? Surprisingly, this question can be answered more and more definitively. I want my work to be conductive to the happiness of myself and others, and I believe agile methods can help me do that. Years of research into happiness can be summed up in a simple sentence. You all know what gives you a happy life. It’s not anything strange or unexpected. It’s simply enjoyable progress towards a meaningful goal.
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Two of the hardest problems of software development are integration and what we could call business-IT alignment: The whole organization working towards the same goal. SOA claims to address both of these problems. After listening harder than I’ve ever done before to SOA evangelists, I think I understand what mechanisms SOA proposes to solve these problems. I think the idea of SOA is based on a set of rather bold claims:
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Back in the 1980s, someone started the UNIX-HATERS mailing list as a means of venting UNIX-related frustrations. In 1994, Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, and Steven Strassmann collected these frustrations and published them in a book called “The UNIX-HATERS Handbook” with extra commentary aimed to portray one view: UNIX sucks. The book itself contains plenty of great information about different technologies such as shell scripting, UNIX co..
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Back in the 1980s, someone started the UNIX-HATERS mailing list as a means of venting UNIX-related frustrations. In 1994, Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, and Steven Strassmann collected these frustrations and published them in a book called “The UNIX-HATERS Handbook” with extra commentary aimed to portray one view: UNIX sucks. The book itself contains plenty of great information about different technologies such as shell scripting, UNIX co..
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I’ve been experimenting with home-baked bread of late, and have been trying some recipes that haven’t worked out so well. So, now I’ve found a good recipe, I figured I’d put it somewhere that I can find it. Simple Wholemeal Loaf
500g wholemeal bread flour
7g sachet dried yeast
1.5 tsp salt
175 ml tepid milk
175 ml tepid water Mix together the flour, yeast and salt, and add the milk and water. Mix..
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I’ve been experimenting with home-baked bread of late, and have been trying some recipes that haven’t worked out so well. So, now I’ve found a good recipe, I figured I’d put it somewhere that I can find it. Simple Wholemeal Loaf
500g wholemeal bread flour
7g sachet dried yeast
1.5 tsp salt
175 ml tepid milk
175 ml tepid water Mix together the flour, yeast and salt, and add the milk and water. Mix..
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When I give talks on agile, people often ask the inevitable question: “When is Agile not appropriate?” My response is that I don’t really care what people call what they do. What I am concerned about is the quality and frequency of the feedback that informs the control and decisions regarding project management and technical decisions on my project. I find the idea that you might not want to improve your feedback to be very odd.
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Too much data for the browser window? Solution: iframe
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www.databasesandlife.com
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18 years ago
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Recently I was asked to put a webpage online which contained some navigation and some content. There was more content than could fit the browser on an average screen. So the content looked basically like this: But then I was sent a new version which was cleverer, The content was stored in an iframe There was Javascript which dynamically altered the size of the iframe to be the size of the monitor resolution (i.e. independent..
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At lunchtime today I was told via IRC/e-mail that Chris Orme, of Datahop passed away after a flight back from a peering conference in Florida. I’ve worked with Chris in the past, and despite having some differences of opinion, found him to be a great guy to work with. We had a disagreement about some contractual matters, and Chris was man enough to apologise to me in person at the LONAP 10th Birthday event. I was happy that we’d resolved ..
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At lunchtime today I was told via IRC/e-mail that Chris Orme, of Datahop passed away after a flight back from a peering conference in Florida. I’ve worked with Chris in the past, and despite having some differences of opinion, found him to be a great guy to work with. We had a disagreement about some contractual matters, and Chris was man enough to apologise to me in person at the LONAP 10th Birthday event. I was happy that we’d resolved ..
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You can't work out what the type of data is by looking at the data itself
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www.databasesandlife.com
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18 years ago
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I was reading this article about how certain data gets messed up when one imports it into Excel (certain data looks like a date and thus gets converted into one), and it reminded me of a problem I had when transferring data over an XML protocol from Perl (the SOAP library was inspecting the hex data I was transferring, but a small percentage of hex numbers look like “123e123”, which looked like a floating point number to the library)
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There was a question in Oracle-L mailinglist recently, regarding excessive SQL*Net break/reset to client waiting by a session. A quote is below: We are seeing an insert statement reporting SQL*Net break/reset to client as over 33% of its time. On the face of it this event suggests network issues but nothing else backs this up as the cause. So I looked at the Java code in question and a trace of one of the sessions. What is hap....
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There was a question in Oracle-L mailinglist recently, regarding excessive SQL*Net break/reset to client waiting by a session. A quote is below: We are seeing an insert statement reporting SQL*Net break/reset to client as over 33% of its time. On the face of it this event suggests network issues but nothing else backs this up as the cause. So I looked at the Java code in question and a trace of one of the sessions. What is hap....
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Programming Languages: Is newer always better? (Part 2)
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www.databasesandlife.com
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18 years ago
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Let me respond to some of the comments left at Programming Languages: Is newer always better? Knowing what’s going on: This is a terrible example. You are really arguing that PHP programmers don’t know how their language works while C programmers do. This is a horribly wrong-headed assertion. How about I counter your straw man with one of my own. I know plenty of new (as of the last 5 years) C programmers who have no idea that 0 is eq..
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I constantly hear the belief that modern programming languages and environment are better than older programming languages. More productive, easier to user, and so on. It would stand to reason: nobody would make a new programming language with worse features than an already existing programming language. Or would they? Everyone seems to think that this is fact. But surprisingly it’s not. There are many features in older programming langua..
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In my previous articles, I have showed you how to create a simple blog application with articles, comments, rss feeds and formatting. However, as it is currently written, the application allows for anyone to create or edit an article. This is a serious security issue, and we better fix it. In this tutorial, I will show you how to make sure that only logged in users can create articles, and that nobody else can edit an article that you creat..
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For some time now, many of us around MIT have noticed just how awesome sshfs is. It gives a totally lightweight way to access the remote filesystem of any machine you have ssh to, without requiring any extra setup on the host. I’ve been running for at least a year now with my /data RAID on my server sshfs-mounted on my laptop, and it works totally great. Recently, I came across two awesome things that make sshfs even neater.
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For some time now, many of us around MIT have noticed just how awesome sshfs is. It gives a totally lightweight way to access the remote filesystem of any machine you have ssh to, without requiring any extra setup on the host. I’ve been running for at least a year now with my /data RAID on my server sshfs-mounted on my laptop, and it works totally great. Recently, I came across two awesome things that make sshfs even neater.
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