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 [...]

Americans going to play golf. Los Angeles Times Well, you can’ t say the feds aren& #8217;t getting serious about border enf orcement. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is about to “ deportR 21; an entire U.S. business. Plans for the fence the feds are building along the Texas/Mexi can border will slice the Fort Brown Memorial Golf Course in Brownsvill e off [...]

Parade magazine today reports on the top ten names for baby boys and girls this year:Jacob EmilyMicha elIsabella EthanEmmaJ oshuaAvaDa nielMadiso nChristoph erSophiaAn thonyOlivi aWilliamAb igailMatth ewHannahAn drewElizab ethOk, but I seem to meet more and more kids with one-off names. Isn't the long tail of names getting longer every year ?[Tags: long_tail ]

The Apple online store has stopped selling iPhones co mpletely, stating they are currently unavailabl e. What does it mean? In some way I’m inclined to say “not much.̶ 1; Apple rarely telegraphs its moves this far in advance. However, since O2 in the UK has stopped selling iPhones and a number of folks have had trouble buying [...]

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:

From time to time people ask what the images in the margins of Scripting News mean. I don't think I've ever answered the question on the blog itself. There are many answers to the question because they mean whatever you want them to mean. The point is to stimulate creativity . If I wrote an article about Fidel Castro, for example, and put a fiery picture of Fidel next to the piece it would satisfy curiosity. "I wonder what he looks like?" Suspense e liminated. That kind of imagery serves to quell

Do you know what Moore̵ 7;s, Metca lfe’ s,and Reed ’s Law are and how they are related? Have your read Wealth of Networks, Democratiz ing Innova tion, Free Culture, The Long Tail, and Small is the New Big? Find out why in this excellent video of Paul Jones talk to TriLug last month. Do you know that iBiblio that hosts [...]SHARE THIS.addEn try({ title: "Paul Jones R 20;Lecture s” on the History of Ibiblio, Laws, and Ideas", url: "http ://sociali zedsoftwar e.com/2008 /05/11/pau l-jones

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.

Approximat ely 250,000 cell phone subscriber s lost service for most of Tuesday this week in Vermont and neighb oring states. According to the Bra ttleboro Reformer, a “s oftware is sue” caused the problem, which caused the loss of Un icel’ ;s cell phone service from about 4:00 am until 2:30 in the afternoon. Public Relations Manager Miriam Svobodny said [...]

Of late, t here’ ;s been some discussion about whether the role of design will have a seat at the table — you know the table, the large mahogany one where all the important decisions are made. Adaptive P ath’ s search for a CEO (or, as one candidate put it to me yesterday, “It& #8217;s like your adopting a parent, 221;) [...]

I recently ran across this 15 minute clip of Clay Shirky talking about what he brillia ntly refers to as the cognitive surplus and how that applies to things like Wikipedia and Web 2.0. It's an absolute must-watch

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

Now I can say, at last, that I'm a JavaOne speaker, really, not only a successful submitter. This year no headache, sore throat, cold, flu, pain in the ass prevented me from performing my talk. Not even the stinking MacBook...

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 [...]

I relied on two models when I wrote Java Script: The Good Parts. The first was Kernighan and Richie's The C P rogramming Language. It is a brilliant little book. I thought there should be a K&R for JavaSc ript. When it seems that most tech books are sold by the pound, it is nice to read a little book that cleanly lays out what you need to know. The other was William Goldman's The Princess Bride. Goldman remembers his grandf ather reading him a wonderful book by S. Morgenste

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

There have been lots of exciting d evelopment and changes going on in the modularity areas recently.