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Saturday Feb 11, 2012
The meaning on the Facebook like button
far as I can tell, clicking theFacebook "Like" button means "please spam me endlessly"
— Dave Johnson (@snoopdave) February 5, 2012Tags: facebook
Thursday Feb 09, 2012
HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org
Worth a read and related to my Web Integration Patterns post on Embedded Properties in HTML:
HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org:HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org On June 2, 2011, Bing, Google, and Yahoo! announced the joint effort Schema.org. When the big search engines talk, Web site authors listen. This article is an introduction to Microdata and Schema.org. The first section describes what HTML5, Microdata and Schema.org are, and the problems they have been designed to solve. With this foundation in place section 2 provides a practical tutorial of how to use Microdata and Schema.org using a real life example from the cultural heritage sector. Along the way some tools for implementers will also be introduced. Issues with applying these technologies to cultural heritage materials will crop up along with opportunities to improve the situation.
Dave in Web Development 08:48AM Feb 09, 2012
Tags: html5 linkeddata wip
Thursday Feb 02, 2012
Understanding Google's new privacy policy
Worth a read:
Understanding Google's new privacy policy: When Google changed its privacy policy last week, they made a strong effort to ensure that everyone knew that a change had occurred, but if you tried to figure out what had actually changed, you had to wade through a lot of buzzwords and legalese. Now the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Rainey Reitman explains it in simple language.
Dave in Social Software 01:39PM Feb 02, 2012
Tuesday Jan 31, 2012
How to select an Open Source project
A reasonable check-list for selecting an open source project:
How I select Open Source projects: An Open Source project is more than its set of tools. But this post is not about what is better, github or ASF. Much has been said already about it (and too much bullshit). What really bugs me is that people seem to choose Open Source projects after the tools the projects use. Here is my personal list after which I choose projects.
Dave in Open Source 07:00AM Jan 31, 2012
IBM abandons Lotus Symphony
Apparently 2001 called and asked for its office suite back.
IBM to close down Symphony, its OpenOffice fork | ZDNet : This move can’t come as too much of a surprise. In July 2011, IBM started donating its Symphony code to the Apache Foundation, which is now overseeing the remains of the OpenOffice project. I say “remains†because most of the development energy in the OpenOffice family has been going to the LibreOffice fork. Many users and Linux distributors, such as Ubuntu, have replaced OpenOffice with LibreOffice.
Dave in IBM 06:53AM Jan 31, 2012
Tags: openoffice
Thursday Jan 26, 2012
Scott McNealy's Wayin weighs in on the election
Nice coverage of Wayin in CNN Money:
Scott McNealy's Wayin weighs in on the election - Fortune Tech: Nearly 30 years after he co-founded Sun, and two years after the company sold to Oracle (ORCL), one of the tech industry's most outspoken and colorful executives is back. Only instead of selling servers and software to businesses, he's trying to get consumers, sports teams, and corporations -- and politicians -- to embrace a social media tool that's a little hard to define: It is part polling app, part interactive media tool (think Twitter), and part enterprise service.
The polling software at the heart of Wayin is super easy to use. It allows you to create basic questionnaires, on the web or using a mobile app, by selecting an image and asking a question. Pick a photo of the Fab Four, ask Who is your favorite Beatle?, and bingo, the answers from your followers will start trickling in immediately.
Dave in Social Software 08:12AM Jan 26, 2012
Tags: wayin
Monday Jan 23, 2012
Tim Bray on HttpURLConnection
Good information on a bad API. The comments are good too:
HttpURLConnection's Dark Secrets: If you’re programming in the Java language and want to talk to a Web server, there are several libraries you can choose from. HttpURLConnection is one popular choice, and for Android programming, the engineering team has now officially suggested that you use it where possible.
Dave in Java 08:26AM Jan 23, 2012
Tags: http
Friday Jan 20, 2012
O'Grady on DynamoDB
Great analysis, as usual, from Stephen O'Grady of Redmonk. Here's the part about Dynamo that concerns me, the lock-in:
Amazon DynamoDB: First Look: Like the initial wave of PaaS platforms, however, DynamoDB is available only through a single provider. Unlike Amazon’s RDS, which is essentially compatible with MySQL, DynamoDB users will be unable to migrate off of the service seamlessly. The featureset can be replicated using externally available code – via those projects that were originally inspired by DynamoDB, for example – but you cannot at this time download, install and run DynamoDB locally.
Dave in Web Development 07:57AM Jan 20, 2012
Thursday Jan 19, 2012
Amazon DymamoDB
Worth a read:
Werner Vogels: Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast performance at any scale. Today’s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. With Amazon DynamoDB, developers scaling cloud-based applications can start small with just the capacity they need and then increase the request capacity of a given table as their app grows in popularity. Their tables can also grow without limits as their users store increasing amounts of data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale.
Dave in Web Development 07:51AM Jan 19, 2012
Monday Jan 16, 2012
The joys of solitude
Worth a read:
The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com: Solitude has long been associated with creativity and transcendence. “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible,†Picasso said. A central narrative of many religions is the seeker — Moses, Jesus, Buddha — who goes off by himself and brings profound insights back to the community.
Dave in General 07:37AM Jan 16, 2012
Saturday Jan 14, 2012
Obama Administration Comes Out Against SOPA, PIPA
I feel pretty strongly about this. I won't vote for a politician who backs SOPA or PIPA:
Obama Administration Comes Out Against SOPA, PIPA | TPM Idea Lab:Even more promising for critics of the bills, the Administration came down firmly against one of the most vehemently opposed portions of the bills — the part that would give the government the power to force Internet Service Providers to stop loading overseas webpages accused of piracy. Under the original versions of SOPA and PIPA, ISPs would be required to change their Doman Name System settings to block sites accused of piracy, a measure that critics said would essentially break the Internet and make it more insecure.
Tags: politics censorship
Friday Jan 13, 2012
NYC gets a Software Engineering High School
Worth a read:
New York City gets a Software Engineering High School - Joel on Software:This fall New York City will open The Academy for Software Engineering, the city’s first public high school that will actually train kids to develop software. The project has been a long time dream of Mike Zamansky, the highly-regarded CS teacher at New York’s elite Stuyvesant public high school. It was jump started when Fred Wilson, a VC at Union Square Ventures, promised to get the tech community to help with knowledge, advice, and money.
Dave in General 03:44PM Jan 13, 2012
Tags: education
Wednesday Jan 11, 2012
The coming war on general-purpose computing
Cory Doctorow's keynote to the Chaos Computer Congress. Worth a read:
Dave in Open Source 04:58PM Jan 11, 2012
Tuesday Jan 10, 2012
Open-source vs Weblogic and WebSphere
Survey says 80% of New Relic's Java customers choose open source app servers over expensive bloat-ware.
Server wars: Open-source Java vs Weblogic and WebSphere | Software, Interrupted - CNET News: Overall, it's not surprising that users who are deploying their applications to the cloud are more likely to use open source, if for no other reason than that licensing is far simpler. Additionally, there are Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) available for most open source stacks, making it very easy to choose open source over a traditionally licensed application server.
Dave in Open Source 10:33AM Jan 10, 2012
Looks like I'll be waiting for Netbeans 7.1.1
jVi Home Page: NetBeans 7.1 Bug 205835 can lose edits; a variety of jVi commands run into this. jVi-1.4.5 disables itself if it detects module versions with the bug, AFAICT. The bug is scheduled to be fixed in NB-7.1.1; sometime around January/February.
Seriously, how can you ship without vi?
Dave in Java 07:20AM Jan 10, 2012
Monday Jan 09, 2012
State of Android
I hate the "will die" title but Antonio Rodriguz insightfully sums up the state of Android and it does not sound strong, to say the least. All the more reason to take a hybrid approach, e.g. project formerly known as PhoneGap.
Android as we know it will die in the next two years and what it means for you: I used to think that, as with Linux and web services in the early part of last decade, Android was going to be the mortar for the Internet of post PC devices— an essential ingredient to put stuff together. And as bonus, unlike Linux which puttered away quietly in the background doing the heavy lifting for services like Amazon and Google, Android was largely user-facing and would also therefore benefit from massive platform scale (and the resulting de-facto standard it would create) the way no piece of software since Microsoft Windows had.
Dave in Open Source 11:07PM Jan 09, 2012
Tags: android
Sunday Jan 08, 2012
Comments on blogs: emacs vs. vi
Brent Simmons says the blog comments vs. no blog comments debate is like vi vs. emacs. Despite his great explanation, only a geek would get thiat argument. Me, I like vi and blog comments... but may be that's because I don't get many.
inessential.com: Comments on blogs: I see my blog that way: it’s one place on the web, the place where I write. It’s one leaf on a tree. It doesn’t have to contain everything. These days there are so many ways and places to comment — so many other tools — that including comments here would be Emacs-like.
Dave in Blogging 10:21PM Jan 08, 2012
Friday Jan 06, 2012
Wednesday Jan 04, 2012
OCLC doing interesting things with OpenSocial
And yes that's OCLC, not OSLC.
Rogue Gadgets: Ian Boston: OCLC recently launched WorldShare, an OpenSocial based platform that uses Apache Shindig to render Gadgets and provide access for those gadgets to a wealth of additional information feeds. It does not provide the container in which to mount the Gadgets but it provides a trusted and respected source of rendered Gadgets. This turns the OpenSocial model on its head. A not for profit organisation delivering access to vast stores of information via OpenSocial and the Gadget feeds. Suddenly the gadget rendered feed is the only thing that matters. The container could be provided by OCLC, but equally by members. OCLC has wisely decided to certify any gadget that it is prepared to serve.
Dave in Links 09:47PM Jan 04, 2012
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Tweet @ 08:15AM Feb 19, 2012Software Patents Should be an Oxymoron | http://t.co/N9TzST2t #fb
Tweet @ 04:51PM Feb 18, 2012Google Circumvents Safari Privacy Protections - This is Why We Need Do Not Track | EFF http://t.co/zoI1f5ox
Tweet @ 04:31PM Feb 18, 2012Javascript MVC Frameworks | http://t.co/WeQA1p1E <- what's your favorite? #fb
Tweet @ 04:15PM Feb 18, 2012RSS vs Atom debate rages on (in one man's mind at least) | http://t.co/Sdmr7onX
Tweet @ 04:11PM Feb 18, 2012same here, @jaaronfarr. I'm still pissed (or maybe I should say non-plussed) that Google broke sharing in Reader
Tweet @ 03:52PM Feb 18, 2012No more RSS in Mac Mail and Safari | http://t.co/S81Eac2i <- did anybody even use those features?
Tweet @ 04:02PM Feb 17, 2012o you want to be a modern poster designer? http://t.co/Ae9Tp7x9
Tweet @ 07:28PM Feb 16, 2012current status: ignite raleigh! http://t.co/PbGS44EU
Tweet @ 05:32PM Feb 16, 2012ain't nothing wrong with that
Tweet @ 05:31PM Feb 16, 2012all the sudden, I've got a lap cat
Tweet @ 01:47PM Feb 16, 2012terrifying http://t.co/CmBArXPi.
Tweet @ 02:51PM Feb 15, 2012engaged workaholic n. A person who works compulsively because he or she loves their job | http://t.co/4RBxIptu
Tweet @ 08:17AM Feb 15, 2012RT @filmbabble: That movie you want? Not on Netflix Instant, but its lame sequel is - http://t.co/yECtehm7
Tweet @ 08:17AM Feb 15, 2012RT @mraible: My latest Comparing JVM Web Frameworks presentation from #Jfokus: http://t.co/zH3Ff4Di
Tweet @ 08:16AM Feb 15, 2012RT @Stephan007: JAX-RS 2.0 Early Draft Explained @ https://t.co/ia518K1Z
Tweet @ 05:22AM Feb 15, 2012JAX-RS 2.0 Early Draft Explained @ https://t.co/ia518K1Z
Tweet @ 07:05AM Feb 14, 2012This Valentine's Day, say it with 55 gallons of lube | http://t.co/7qhzyJR4 #fb
Tweet @ 06:41AM Feb 14, 2012RT @alexismp: What a difference a few years can make http://t.co/YoUdJrkq #openoffice #ibm
Tweet @ 04:15AM Feb 14, 2012hat a difference a few years can make http://t.co/YoUdJrkq #openoffice #ibm
Tweet @ 10:28PM Feb 11, 2012RT @nitya: Great @gigaom article on rethinking AdMeter solutions.. How social media is making polling obsolete http://t.co/cNXp5OsR via ...
Tweet @ 04:44PM Feb 11, 2012embedding works for me, @mistersugar. Perhaps your blog software is stripping out some of the JavaScript or HTML code?
Blog @ 04:42PM Feb 11, 2012Title: The meaning on the Facebook like button
Tweet @ 09:42AM Feb 11, 2012RT @TomJessiman: My coworker, matz http://t.co/g575icZu
Tweet @ 08:13AM Feb 11, 2012t @gigaom article on rethinking AdMeter solutions.. How social media is making polling obsolete http://t.co/cNXp5OsR via @zite
Tweet @ 01:15AM Feb 11, 2012atholic Church blasts contraception & ignores its current child sexual abuse scandal | Manhattan Diary | IrishCentral http://t.co/Fn1de6D6
Tweet @ 07:07PM Feb 10, 2012and: Trick question: 'Are all Google employees stupid?' >> http://t.co/zxRrYY5m
Tweet @ 05:15PM Feb 10, 2012pixies!
Tweet @ 04:44PM Feb 10, 2012w Chrome joins the party with some "Harmony": let, collections, weak maps, proxies, and more http://t.co/GDkl8b06
Tweet @ 01:43PM Feb 10, 2012thrilled about a couple of cool new projects that we just kicked off at #Wayin
Tweet @ 06:39AM Feb 10, 2012hy I'm Feeling So Hard-Nosed Over the Contraception Affair http://t.co/m5AG7MfN v @AdamSerwer @Kdrum
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