Getting used to a Mac - Applications and Behaviors
Several people I know have been switching to Macs recently and I've found myself rattling off the same list of advice and applications to each of... more »
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Deep Dive into Silverlight 2.0 - RIAs in more than one language
Guest Brad Becker gives us the insider overview on Silverlight 2.0 and how it aims to fit into the RIA world. Keying off his own background, Brad then... more »
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Silverlight 2.0 Targets Java, Android, Java SE 6 update 10 - RIA Weekly #26
With it's Eclipse plugin outsourcing, Silverlight appears to be going after the Java community. Not only that, but this week was chock full of RIA... more »
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Danny Coward on Java SE 6 Update 10, JavaFX, and Improving Client-side Java, and Installation
When I was in his neck of the woods last, I got the chance to talk with Sun’s Danny Coward, the Chief Architect of Sun’s Client Software (that is,... more »
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How much money can you make from open source?
The question of how much cash open source can bring has come up again. There's no shortage of opinion and schemes.
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ZoHo, Marketplaces, PDC, Strata, Pandora on Chumby, Enterprise RIA - RIA Weekly # 25
In this episode of RIA Weekly, we spend a fair amount of time talking about ZoHo mail and the ZoHo marketplace, the curious case of the missing RIA... more »
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Native iPhone Apps in Ajax
In this episode of RIA Weekly, Andre Charland tells us about PhoneGap, the open source framework for writing iPhone applications naively in JavaScript... more »
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The Latest on JavaFX - Open Sourcing, the Preview, and 1.0 - RIA Weekly #22
Recently, I had the chance to sit down with Sun’s Jacob Lehrbaum. We start out discussing the larger context that RIA technologies are finding... more »
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zembly.com demo - building Facebook and other applications in the cloud
This extensive demo shows off how zembly.com is used to develop, deploy, find, and extends applications deployed in the cloud. The platform is a... more »
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JavaFX Preview SDK Demo and Interview
We talk with Sun's Nandini Ramani who first gives us a quick overview of the JavaFX SDK preview release, and then demo's it for us.
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e4, Equinox, OSGi and Android with Neil Bartlett
After letting it rest way to long, I finally got around to editing and publishing this short video with Neil Bartlett from EclipseCon 2008. As the... more »
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Silverlight 2.0 and Deep Zoom
In this brief interview with Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb we go over the upcoming Silverlight 2.0 release. We also spend time talking about the Deep... more »
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Don't confuse SaaS with Cloud Computing
Some observations from the "cloud computing conference" week, and hoping to nail the difference between SaaS and Cloud Computing. Included is a napkin... more »
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Running JBoss in The Cloud, here on EC2
In this short video, I ask RedHat/JBoss' Aaron Darcy to tell me about their recent announcement of a beta for running JBoss on EC2. We go over what... more »
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Grady Booch on Multi-core, UML & DSLs at RSDC 2008
I had the chance to talk with Grady Booch at RSDC this year. I started out by asking him to explain why people are concerned about multi-core,... more »
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How Google Manages its Apple Desktops
In this short podcast, Google's Nigel Kersten tells us how Google manages the configuration of its "many, many thousands" of Apple desktops, all with... more »
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TuneUp Rails Applications and Get Help Profiling Them
I recently talked with FiveRuns' Steve Sanderson and Bruce Williams bout the product that they announced today, the public beta of FiveRuns TuneUp.... more »
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Balancing Open and Commercial Development at Eclipse
During RedMonk’s Unconference at JavaOne this year, I had the change pull aside Mik Kersten and Ian Skerrett for a little conversation about what it’s... more »
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Managing Rails with FiveRuns Manage 2.0
This is a short video interview with FiveRuns' Steve Sanderson and Bruce Williams about today's release of Manage 2.0, one of their products for... more »
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RIA Weekly #015 - JavaFX and JavaOne 2008 Wrap-up
Dion Almaer stands in as the special guest-host for this episode from JavaOne 2008. Being the last day, we spend go over the RIA news of the show…and... more »
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James Gosling Interview at JavaOne 2008 - Scala, Multi-core, Working Below the VM, and Epigraphs
While we may have recorded this episode at JavaOne 2008, we spent most of our time talking about more general programming and Java concerns: Scala and... more »
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A Roadmap for JavaFX - Adobe’s Beat Them By a Week, But So What? - JavaOne 2008
I really wanted Sun to announce that JavaFX was fully cooked and 1.0 was ready - pick up your CDs on the way out the door. But, they didn’t. To be... more »
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Update of the RIA Wars and Adobe's Open Screens Project
A brief account and commentary on Adobe's Open Screens Project and then a dip into thinking about the current state of RIA platform strategies.
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Getting your boss to use open source, or even go open source - 3 free papers
We just made public three free papers on going open source and using open source software. The idea is to explain to people who are skeptical and want... more »
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Groping to Understand Git - DrunkAndRetired.com #122
After a small discusion about libraries, we try to figure out what the deal with Git is. Are there advantages over a centralized version control... more »
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