The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies that they believe will change the world over the next four years. The usual suspects including multi-core chips, virtualization, and cloud computing are on the list.
is a new podcast from Daniel Jalkut and me, with a focus on the daily life of a Mac developer and whatever related subjects are going through our heads. There was so little time between the "let's do it" idea
Macfilink, my affiliate link cloaking tool, has been updated to version 1.4.3.This update includes a few fixes, and is free for existing customers:Improved the reliability of the two web views (Original Page and Generated Preview), allowing them to better load
I see that people are talking about Twitter's obvious scaling problems - one of their developers, Alex Payne, said this: The events that hit our system the hardest are generally when "popular" users - that is, users with large numbers
Last year I worked on a UK mobile phone and mobile phone deals comparison site: Omio.comWhen the project kicked off, we knew we wanted a beautiful interface with rich behavior. For example, the ability to filter deals and compare phones
What's fair? Also: Java Today: OpenJDK Governance Board grows, NetBeans Governance Board elections, and GlassFish Day at Jazoon '08 Featured Podcast: j1-2k8-mtT07: What Is Next For Java Educators Weblogs: WebKit-powered JWebPane, embedded databases in JCP apps, and Hudson becomes Kohsuke's
The "ObMimic" library for out-of-container servlet testing is now being made available to a small number of users as a private "beta" release, in advance of a public beta in the next month or two
Dare Obasanjo has done a great summary of the issues with "social media" sites: Social news sites like Reddit & Digg also have to contend with the fact that the broader their audience gets the less controversial and original their
I'll be bringing my camera to Smalltalk Solutions 2008, but I can only film one thing at a time (and we have multiple tracks. So: I would appreciate suggestions as to what I should film. I intend to make the
Lessons Learned: Freeze existing functionality Field small, co-located, talented team (4 developers) Dedicate long technology evaluation, prototyping, and planning period Assign technical decision maker and communicator to management Leverage UX team: all page design and HTML gen, then give to
Back when I talked with FiveRuns about their Manage 2.0 release we also discussed the product that they announced today, the public beta of FiveRuns TuneUp. More than just a profiling tool, the ambition of TuneUp is to provide the
Sean Gillies : "Unless the tooling coming out of Microsoft turns out to be vapor and Google's push to become the ITCZ of cloud computing bonks, AtomPub will be ubiquitous
PCPro has a neat little tidbit about a new flash drive from Corsair. This little drive, only half the size of a lighter, packs a punch with 4GB of data storage and a very reasonable price tag (approx $32 USD).
Tom Moreland tips us to photos of Dell's answer to the Eee PC on the Direct2Dell site. Dell posted these after an attendee at the D conference spotted Michael Dell carrying one. The company hasn't released any details, so you
Seagate CEO Bill Watkins said today that the company plans to put out its first solid state disk drive next year as well as a 2TB version of its Barracuda hard disk drive. Watkins also alluded to Seagate's inevitable move
The US government is not alone in wanting to snoop on everything citizens do over email/phone. The Indian government wants that right too. RIM is stating they have no means to decrypt , no master key, and no back door
