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Profit Maximization V. Survival Maximization

A lot of criticism has been aimed at venture capitalists the last few days. The VCs are telling their portfolio companies to get ahead of the curve and conserve cash right now, and companies are starting to take their advice. The criticism is coming from people who don’t understand that the world has changed in the last week and that companies need to change with it. And so they’re asking why VCs waited until now to tell everyone to conserve cash. Others are saying the boom is the V

Oct. 11, 2008 08:55 PM

McCain tries to counter the natural result of his own Fear Obama campaign

I think he's being honest. For a change.

Oct. 11, 2008 04:45 PM

Some More Good SOA Business Blogs - Enough for Now

I have now written a six part series on software community blogs. This has included some of our larger partners such as Oracle, TIBCO, and Software AG who maintain multiple blogs with a community. I also covered the Agile Commons blog by our partner, Rally. We have some other partners who have excellent individual blogs, or in the case of Infosys, a great collection of blogs. A list can be found in the right side of this blog. Here are three more of them. dynaTrace is a leader in li

Oct. 11, 2008 02:46 PM

Local voices for Obama

Local Voices for Obama is producing video ads for localities, featuring, well, local voices. [Tags: obama politics ]

Oct. 11, 2008 09:46 AM

Even Stephen Fry fails to get cloud computing

Stephen Fry recently published an article on cloud computing. Like many others he got it completely wrong and was describing nothing more than what the Internet is. Cloud computing is not the second coming. Leave Comment Related Entries: Cloud Bootcamp announced, learn what all the fuss is about Amazon's EC2 now with Windows dot.com bubble2.0 Upcoming online webinar - Flying through the clouds From deep within the bowels of SUN Time for VMWare to change its pricing model Amazon S3 s

Oct. 10, 2008 09:52 PM

Because I don’t have enough to do

I knew, going into 2008, it was going to be a liminal year for me. And, boy howdy, has it proven true! This year, I: had a book I co-wrote published got married (twice!) hired a CEO to steer the company I started oversaw the largest event Adaptive Path ever delivered had a child and, as of yesterday bought a house (in North Oakland) Still to come this year is, I hope, the sale of my current house, market willing. (Know anyone who’d like a pleasant, cozy, 2BR home in South Berkeley? Let me

Oct. 10, 2008 08:03 PM

A note about conferences

I was recently invited to keynote a prestigious conference in a European city. I agreed to speak but only on the condition that they cover my expenses. I didn't ask to be paid for my time, but after they said no, I realize I should have. Here's why. I didn't have a product to pitch or have a company that could benefit from the PR. If I were in their shoes (and I have been) I would insist on covering expenses, otherwise the talks would just be advertisements. It seems analogous to asking a vendor

Oct. 10, 2008 05:35 PM

Sins of Commissions

“A couple of years ago, I went into a big-box shoe store and bought a pair of sneakers. At the checkout counter, the cashier grabbed a can of that bogus silicone spray stores always try to up-sell you. It's supposed to make sneakers shiny and waterproof, but it doesn't seem to do anything.” From my latest Inc. column: Sins of Commissions My dad emailed to add: The same problem arises when you set measurable incentives (money for better test results) in educational policies

Oct. 10, 2008 05:34 PM

Suggest me a scripting language for blueMarine, Java compatible

I've said a lot of times that I don't like scripting languages, and in fact all of my work is currently done in Java. I see it as perfectly fitting my needs, from JME to JEE, through the Desktop. But...

Oct. 10, 2008 11:10 AM

Being right doesn't count for

Being right doesn't count for much if you can't persuade anyone of that fact.

Oct. 10, 2008 11:06 AM

Bash Scripts for working with ActionScript 3 in TextMate

I have switched over to using TextMate for some of my experimentations with ActionScript. I like how lightweight it is, its extensibility, command completion functionality, and ease of setting up new projects. I find it is perfect for quickly testing new code and ideas. I have put together a couple of bash scripts, which coupled with the ActionScript 3 and Flex TextMate bundles have made working in TextMate a little easier for me. The first script is called autocompile, which takes a class file

Oct. 9, 2008 02:41 PM

The Miller Device

The JavaScript language currently does not provide a good way to distinguish between objects and arrays. The typeof operator is broken: It identifies arrays as objects. Comparing a value's constructor property doesn't work because arrays created in a different frame will have a different constructor. There are do-it-yourself tests for arrayness, but they are complicated and unreliable. Mark Miller of The Google, by closely reading the ECMAScript standard, has discovered

Oct. 9, 2008 01:22 PM

Develop an iPhone App and beat the credit crunch !

From the press some of the initial iPhone apps have been getting, it seems that there are going to be quite a few Apple iPhone App Store millionaires this year ! So why not write your own and join the crowd ? Don't know Objective C or XCode - then get learning ! A nice resource is theiphonedevplace , which has many tutorial links now that Apple rescinded their NDA . So what you waiting for ? Get going - beat the credit crunch !

Oct. 9, 2008 10:07 AM

Altova Online Training is back, improved, and still free

I am delighted to report that we have relaunched our Altova Online Training program today. We've used this hiatus of a few months to completely redesign our training program and incorporate all the feedback that we had received in the past. One of the key requests heard over and over again was that you wanted to be able to consume the training on your schedule and time, rather than having to sign up for a particular class and deal with available seats, time-zone issues, and fitting a 2-3h class

Oct. 9, 2008 09:02 AM

Stanford University - free programming courses

If you are young and poor, but want to take a some computer science courses for free, I've got something for you.Stanford Univercity is one of the best schools in the world when it comes to preparing software engineers. They have a program called

Oct. 9, 2008 08:19 AM

26 Hours at Sea: The Longest Posting in the History of Blogging

I've been to many interesting places, but nothing compares to my twenty-four hour visit to the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy. I hope that you enjoy these pictures and videos. I would be overjoyed if you spotted someone you know in one of them. Incidentally, this is probably the longest posting in the history of blogging. It contains over 130 photos (I lost count) and five videos. You might question the wisdom of posting this many pictures. After all, I could create

Oct. 9, 2008 02:04 AM

Decision Services in CEP?

One of the more obvious up-and-coming IT “best practices” is the area of “decision management” – as evangelised by James Taylor at Smart Enough Systems – which postulates that separating and managing decisions is as important as managing business processes. In a “conventional event processing” or synchronous SOA world, this means separate “decision services” invoked to make important decisions during automated processes, or prior to BPMN

Oct. 8, 2008 11:13 PM

Mobile observation from the City

City of London that is...

Oct. 8, 2008 06:49 AM

Breaking Brooks’s Law

Fred Brooks’s law of ‘adding manpower to a late software project makes it later‘ is one most of us have tried to prove wrong…….and failed! I was at Agile 2008 and saw an interesting session, “Breaking Brooks’s Law” from Menlo Innovations, a Michigan based Java development company. They claimed to disprove this law and demonstrated their working environment and techniques that allowed them to do so. Although the presentation was only 45 minutes, we

Oct. 8, 2008 12:42 AM

Mashups for the People. You Betcha!

I laughed when I heard Sarah Palin say in last week's debate: “...and I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also” (this is straight from the CNN transcript). I laughed because it’s such overt “spin” to say you’re not going to answer what the moderator wants to hear. And, incidentally, it's exactly what the moderator wants to hear.But that’s beside the po

Oct. 7, 2008 02:08 PM

Smart, Deep Property Notifications in CLINQ v2.0

I haven't said much about CLINQ lately but that's mostly because we've been trying to get v2.0 ready to ship. We're nearly there, so I thought I would start by talking about one of the new features - smart property notifications

Oct. 7, 2008 09:15 AM

Is really LINQ the best option for a future Java query API?

My interview to Mike Card has triggered an intense discussion ongoing, on the pros and cons of considering LINQ as the best option for a future Java query API. You can follow the discussion here.

Oct. 7, 2008 07:49 AM

Flex Camp 360 NJ

File this under the better late than never... On September 26 and 27th, the folks who bring you Flex 360, put on a 2 day "Flex Camp" in New Jersery, which went over extremely well. I was presenting on Testing with Fluint (formerl

Oct. 6, 2008 07:43 AM

Save the dates…

TechWave 2009 will be held at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., Aug. 16-20.Original Entry

Oct. 3, 2008 10:17 AM

Running Toronto Marathon - 9/28/2008

A couple of years ago my friend Kaushal Vyas blogged about his first marathon experience. His blog entry started with some quotes from Lance Armstrong on his first marathon: “the hardest physical thing I have ever done. Even the worst days in the tours, nothing was as hard as that and nothing left me feeling the way I feel now in terms of sheer fatigue and soreness. I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier…”. It didn’t resonate with me at t

Oct. 1, 2008 12:28 AM

Latest entries from reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com

Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld commercial is a hoot

I just stumbled on the Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld commercial (at "Shoe Circus" of all places!) and it's a real

Posted: Sep. 5, 2008 04:51 PM

Nailguns and my 9-year old

My wife has allowed me to let my 9-year old daughter use a nailgun.

Posted: Aug. 6, 2008 10:26 AM

SySAM Licensing for PowerBuilder

In the PowerBuilder 11.0 timeframe, Sybase went to a new licensing scheme called SySAM. This post discusses some PowerBuilder specific details.

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 11:58 AM

SySAM Licensing for PowerBuilder

In the PowerBuilder 11.0 timeframe, Sybase went to a new licensing scheme called SySAM. This post discusses some PowerBuilder specific details.

Posted: Jul. 24, 2008 11:58 AM

Win32 API - Move Some Memory

Copying a memory block from a "unsignedlong" address into a PowerBuilder managed object.

Posted: Jul. 14, 2008 06:09 PM

Win32 API - Move Some Memory

Copying a memory block from a "unsignedlong" address into a PowerBuilder managed object.

Posted: Jul. 14, 2008 06:09 PM

TypeDiving - values of an enumeration

Looking into the contents of PowerBuilder types is an area that is not well explored by most people. This sample extracts the names and values of an enumeration at runtime.

Posted: Jun. 25, 2008 09:39 AM

TypeDiving - values of an enumeration

Looking into the contents of PowerBuilder types is an area that is not well explored by most people. This sample extracts the names and values of an enumeration at runtime.

Posted: Jun. 25, 2008 09:39 AM

PocketBuilder 2.5.1 Update is Available

The IDE and Runtime Update for PocketBuilder, version 2.5.1 is now available.

Posted: Jun. 12, 2008 03:26 PM

PocketBuilder 2.5.1 Update is Available

The IDE and Runtime Update for PocketBuilder, version 2.5.1 is now available.

Posted: Jun. 12, 2008 03:26 PM