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David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
I’ve started a FAQ for people implementing ISO Schematron, to go along with the maillist, wiki and the public draft specs . The final URL isnt sorted yet.
Filed at 4:45am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · error and bias / Knowledge Management
Last night the BBC reoprted on the approval of Herceptin for early stage breast cancer in the UK. Talk about talking the drug up!Yesterday the UK Government approved the drug Herceptin for use in early stage breast cancer.
Filed at 5:00am
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Anti-DRM protestors plan to flashmob Apple stores across the US, and possibly in other countries too, just before lunchtime today.
Filed at 7:15am
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
A welcome initiative from the Swing boys is the start of a community project JSR 296, a simple Swing Application Framework. Han’s Muller’s presentation on this at Java One recently mentions its goal of simplicity, including in that design decision that there should be “no GUI definition schema”. But looking at the examples, we see something called a ResourceMap that chains together properties and resources. The result as far as I can see is a hierarchical-name text format that allows declaration of properties in groups. Err, isnt this also what XML syntax can be used for?
Filed at 9:18am
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Glad to see the National Toilet Map is producing XHTML. The incontinent are best to avoid my suburb Darlinghurst . If you cannot, or you are out of Internet access and the map is not cached in your browser (and many homeless people are out of caches), then please go to the West of the suburb before continuing., Away from my place. Thank you.
Filed at 10:46am
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
DISCLAIMER: The title is not my fault. I was born this way. Blame either God or my parents. Now that we have that settled :) darcusblog ' Blog Archive ' It’s not (just) about about file formats
Filed at 12:16pm
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
… dada dum da IP Democracy
Filed at 12:45pm
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
So, I recently added Agile Web Development with Rails, Second Edition to my wish list. I have to admit though, I almost pulled it right off when I saw the new cover art. I mean, I suppose the rock-star coder marketing has been instrumental in fueling the hype wild success of Rails, but now, I think the line has been crossed.
Filed at 1:15pm
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Try the latest Callisto Release Candidate Whenever I upgrade Eclipse, I’m tempted to download the latest development release. Instead of clicking on the production release, I tend to look for other versions and download the latest release candidate or integration build. I’ve been running a Eclipse 3.2 integration build since last November, and it worked so well I forgot that I was using an early integration build. I finally upgraded this week, and in doing so I decided to try the latest release candidate of the Callisto Simultaneous Release. Verdict? It’s official, Eclipse is no longer just an IDE, it is a powerful platform, and I was surprised at the breadth and quality of this release. Read on for an account of my own experience.
Filed at 2:45pm
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
So at the beginning of the week I learned of the new 7.2 release of Oxygen. For those unaware I am a HUGE fan of Oxygen, as is Kurt, Sylvain, Russ, and TONS of other folks in whom I have worked with or in whom I know for various reasons feel the exact same way that I do.
Filed at 4:45pm
Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · Security
Dr. Fun.
Filed at 5:39pm
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Computer languages evolve across an interesting number of vectors, and not always in ways that the original designers had planned. For every high level, top-down decision to implement new features and capabilities, there are interesting bits of best practices, useful libraries, and design patterns that can, subtly and sometimes not so subtly, change the course of direction of a language in critical ways.
Filed at 6:15pm
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Famed science fiction author CM Kornbluth wrote one of his most famous stories, The Marching Morons , in 1951, as a commentary about both the general populace (and its collective lack of intelligence) and the ruling elite and THEIR collective lack of intelligence. If you have never read it, you’re missing out on one of the seminal works of the era, but I find that over time it also seems to be a remarkably prescient look at the US leadership.
Filed at 7:45pm
Barry Graubart · Vice President of Product management, Alacra · ajax / Knowledge Management / search / technology
Now that I've had the chance to play with Google Spreadsheets a bit, here are my initial reactions: Overall, it's a well-constructed implementation of Ajax. In most ways, the app behaves like a software application not a web app. Response...
Filed at 8:22pm
Jonathan Schwartz · Executive Vice President, Software Group, Sun Microsystems · general / IT Management
In answering the prior question... As you know, computers consume a ton of energy - if you don't work in a datacenter, you may not know what I'm talking about. But you know how your laptop warms your lap? Or your PC heats up your den? Multiply that a few thousand times over, and you have a problem faced by most datacenters - power draw and heat dissipation.
Filed at 12:50am
Hu Yoshida · Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems · Storage
I had another great conversation with Jon Toigo last Friday about Records Management and active archives. Jon described RIM, Records and Information Managers, as the new rock stars for IT. After the Enron - Arther Anderson debacle, many IT shops...
Filed at 12:52am