I'm in Las Vegas, and my Blackberry just tried to do a bluetooth pairing with "Brenda Lee." Do we now have a whole new ? and easily spoofed ? type of Celebrity Encounter? And how many degrees from Kevin Bacon does that make me?[Tags: bluetooth celebritie s ]

Facebook will announce soon on its developer blog that it’s working on a Jabber/X MPP interface for Facebook Chat. The interface will allow users to talk to their Facebook friends using any Jabber-ena bled desktop client. It will also enable Facebook users with such desktop clients to see which of their friends are online, view frien ds’ profile pictures, [...]

Student Arrested for Tossing M&M at Police Officer

I’m excited to announce the launch of a new site, Bugpedia. Creating the Enerjy Index threw out a lot of f ascinating data and I was frustrated that I did n’t really have anywhere to put it. For example, if you follow this blog you’ ll have seen Rich& #8217;s post on our analysis of Cyclomatic Complexity . Well, just [...]

Sean McGrath gave the closing pr esentation at XTech 2008 last week in Dublin. He quoted from Jorge Luis Borges's The Analytical Language of John Wilkins. Wilkins was an 17th Century English scientist. (He is also one of the characters in Neal St ephenson's Quicksilve r.) Wilkins designed a Philosophi cal Language in which the letters of each word give not just the sound but also the specific meaning of the word. It would have been an amazing accomplish ment had it worked. Borges su

I'm at the offices of Betaworks in New York, meeting with CEO John Borthwick who I know for many years from AOL. They have built a product called Firefly which is rolling out tonight at the Tech Meetup in New York. He just gave me a demo and my first reaction was "You can't do that," then I asked if I could put a demo of it on Scripting News today and he said (to my surprise) Yes. It's so weird it's practicall y illegal. You can watch people's mouse move around the page, and then chat with the

Totally goofy but humorous Floppy Drive video. Technorati Tags: data transfer, Humor SHARETHIS. addEntry({ title: "Old School Data Transfer", url: "http ://sociali zedsoftwar e.com/2008 /05/13/old -school-da ta-transfe r/" });

Join us Aug. 4 ? 8 at the Mandalay Bay Resort &Casino in Las Vegas, NV... for the 10th Annual Sybase User Training and Solutions Conference .

Among the many reasons I’ve been posting so infrequent ly was wedding planning. My own. Last Saturday, Stacy and I conducted our ceremony at the Hillside Club in Berkeley. Ryan posted a set of 16 beautiful photos from the event. To be truly f orthcoming , Stacy and I were already te chnically married, having done a San Francisco City Hall [...]

The saddest day at the conference is undoubtly friday, when they pack the pavillion stuff and you perceive that the thing is almost over. For some reasons, however, friday has been one of my most important days at the confer ence...

Are you hopelessly addicted to program ming in Sh arePoint? Do you think that everything in the world can be fixed using a custom list, some duct tape, the BDC and chewing gum? If so, read this post!

I recently picked up Ron Paul&# 8217;s “The Revolution : A Manife sto” . I’ve made my way through the first two chapters which do a great job of simply explaining the problems with our g overnment. A few of the highlights include, for example, the 1996 election won by the Republican party: The Contract with America was typical [...]

I’m giving a short pres entation on the  220;future of Web 2.0″ at a CIO roundtable session in Chicago on May 12th. You can download the 14.2MB PDF version of the presen tation:

After waiting four years since my 1st Dan (1st degree black belt) in TaeKwonDo (TKD) I was given the"g reen light " by my Master - Stephen Yeoh - in March to ...

This years JavaOne was a not to be missed event. Here are my views on how the conference has changed.

New APIs, new algorithms and new pr ogramming language. Want more can a geek ask for?

As I write the last of my event summary reports and follow up action items, I am now officially putting a bow on the TIBCO user conference (TUCON 2008) What a madhouse. I was acco untable for the TIBCO Analyst Summit (TIBCO?s first ever), two days of the Business O ptimizatio n track of presentati ons (combining [...]

Apparently Lucas is up to his old tricks again . How sad . I was hoping that Spielberg might diminish Lucas? influence on the film . *sigh* I?ll probably go see it anyway. On the upside Iron Man was surpri singly good and Prince Caspian looks to be good... (read more)

PocketBuil der 2.5.1 is getting some new samples from our evangelist Ian Thain.

Dave Fish has a number of entries on his blog site demon strating the soon to be released features, including DataWindow ToolTips and New Graph Styl es.Origina l Entry

Stockholm, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Munich and Milan are the cities I will be stopping in as part of the second leg of the European on AIR Tour. I will be MCing the event, and giving a session on building your first AIR applic ation with Flex. The first leg was completely sold out, and the second [...]

At the end of this week, I will no longer be employed by BEA Systems. It has been a great 4 years working at BEA, and u ndoubtedly the highlight of my career thus far. I have enjoyed the opport unity to write for the BEA developer community, and to lead Tooling at BEA these last 3 years.

According to Forrester research wider handset av ailability , improved network coverage and new pricing models are going to foster rapid adoption of mobile internet services in Europe.By 2013 they predict that the number of people using the Internet via mobile phone will be 125 million - three times toda y's figure.  Some countries, such as the UK, will adopt even faste r. Im proved handset devices, such as the Iphone 2.0, improved networks, such as 3.5G, better network coverage, and fl

Meet you at the JavaOne Modularity session and BOF on Wednesday (May 7th) to share more about the Java Module System and OSGi support. We will show some simple demos of the Java Module System and how a Java module imports an OSGi bundle.

The ColdFusion 8.01 System Req uirements as shown in the detailed platform support matrix [PDF] indicates that support for 64-bit Linux dist ributions is limited to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 10.1. This fine print appears to often go o verlooked, so I just want to broadcast it a little louder here. I was contacted today by someone reporting installati on problems and mentioned glibc and floating point errors. A bit of Googling turned up this Google Group thread