The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog). You might almost think that the whole scheme had been cooked up by a bunch of hyperintelligent but hopelessly socially naive people, and you would not be wrong. Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender. Our industry abounds in [...]
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ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) technology has been around a while now, and has moved from niche to mainstream along with code generation, unit testing, and agile development. ORM, in a nutshell, allows a developer to link object models to relational database schemas, eliminating the impedance mismatch inherent between relational databases and object-oriented programming languages. ORM can [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w Work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a machine that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such a machine is the ‘Turbo-Encabulator’. The original machine had a base-plate of [...]
A few months back I encountered the hot, hip, new web site Yelp. For those who don’t know Yelp is really a truly genius idea – a review site for restaurants and businesses that allows anyone to post a review. With just a quick glance I could tell that Yelp was better than longtime competitors [...]
This week I attended the Web 2.0 Expo at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It was an interesting scene both in the content presented and the attendees themselves. Like any event of this size, the speakers, panels, and sessions are hit-and-miss, in my case with duds-vs-great about 50/50. Some observations in no particular order: [...]
Consulting: If you’re not part of the solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
In my time working with and managing software developers, I have noticed some interesting personality traits which have the uncanny ability to make one completely nuts. Engineers in general have a reputation for being socially difficult; stereotypes range from the bearded stinky overweight guy to the geeky skinny guy with too-short pants and taped glasses. [...]
Requirements: • 3-5 years experience with Enterprise Service Bus products, (SAP, TIBCO, Oracle Fusion, BEA, WebMethods, etc.), SOA principles and SOA derived workflow tools, BPEL, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), etc. • 3-5 years experience in OO design and development in a variety of areas: J2EE, EJB, JSP, JSF, Struts, Servlets, Java Transaction API (JTA), JDBC, [...]
The UT is reporting that MicroSkills, a San Diego “certification mill” has closed abrubtly, leaving students out thousands. Students stunned as school closes I used to pass by the MicroSkills campus (located in a strip mall on Miramar Road) every day. Mostly I noticed that they seemed to play a lot of hackey-sack in the [...]
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