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I recently read an article on Techcrunch on how web 2.0 had undoubtedly made an impact, but had yet to truly make money. From my stance they is really one way to make money on the web, which is through advertising (paid subscription services are dying). This can either be done through a simple banner ad, or something that can more easily be deemed a qualified lead or referral. Ads will always be there, but if web 2.0 is to start making mone....
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Please make sure you understand hand signals. And don’t try and half wheel other people, it causes crashes!
Snapped chain. Bent chainring. Bent crank spider. Bruises. Damn.
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Please make sure you understand hand signals. And don’t try and half wheel other people, it causes crashes!
Snapped chain. Bent chainring. Bent crank spider. Bruises. Damn.
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This picture is of an IBM Model 3380 Hard Drive from 1981. Because it looks like a nuclear device or jet engine, I was able to convince my neighbour that I was generating my own nuclear power from now on, as well as the people at the Chrysler convention that it was an electric engine for a transport truck (I was passing them when going to a high school tech presentation at Bingemans where I used this as a fun prop). My pranks know no bounds..
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This picture is of an IBM Model 3380 Hard Drive from 1981. Because it looks like a nuclear device or jet engine, I was able to convince my neighbour that I was generating my own nuclear power from now on, as well as the people at the Chrysler convention that it was an electric engine for a transport truck (I was passing them when going to a high school tech presentation at Bingemans where I used this as a fun prop). My pranks know no bounds..
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Performance and Scalalability Improvements in Oracle 10g and 11g
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tanelpoder.com
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18 years ago
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eng
I have uploaded the slides of my “Performance and Scalalability Improvements in Oracle 10g and 11g” presentation here .
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Performance and Scalalability Improvements in Oracle 10g and 11g
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tanelpoder.com
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18 years ago
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eng
I have uploaded the slides of my “Performance and Scalalability Improvements in Oracle 10g and 11g” presentation here .
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There was a question in a recent Oracle-L thread about various uses of autonomous transactions. Autonomous transactions can be very useful for a PL/SQL application logging, but sometimes they are also abused to cope with bad application design (like avoiding mutating table errors in triggers etc). I’m not going to start on that topic here though, but instead presenting another case where autonomous transactions have helped me to work ....
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There was a question in a recent Oracle-L thread about various uses of autonomous transactions. Autonomous transactions can be very useful for a PL/SQL application logging, but sometimes they are also abused to cope with bad application design (like avoiding mutating table errors in triggers etc). I’m not going to start on that topic here though, but instead presenting another case where autonomous transactions have helped me to work ....
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I’m finding it a growingly interesting balance in consuming versus producing information. I also feel with the increase in availability of information, the barrier to entry in so many areas are shrinking rapidly. I think of some of the areas where the barriers to entry are typically much higher. 15 years ago we would have never seen a 23 year old as the CEO of a company valued at 15 billion dollars. While my vantage point even within the bu....
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I’m finding it a growingly interesting balance in consuming versus producing information. I also feel with the increase in availability of information, the barrier to entry in so many areas are shrinking rapidly. I think of some of the areas where the barriers to entry are typically much higher. 15 years ago we would have never seen a 23 year old as the CEO of a company valued at 15 billion dollars. While my vantage point even within the bu....
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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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eng
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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eng
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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El 1 de Mayo de 1964 se ejecutó el primer programa en BASIC. Los creadores de este lenguaje de programación, los profesores John G. Kemeny y Thomas E. Kurtz del Dartmouth College, hace 44 años ejecutaron por primera vez un código escrito en BASIC ( Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code ). La búsqueda de un lenguaje potente y sencillo de usar (por aquellas fechas se solía utilizar Fortran y Algol) comenzó en el año 19....
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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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HDF Group's Hierarchical Data Format (HDF5) Library
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blog.raymond.burkholder.net
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18 years ago
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kor
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