Working in NetBeans, I have noticed that Java DB is incredibly solid:
it Just Works. It starts quickly, it runs well, it does everything you need it to do.
But in some ways I think this can actually mislead people into thinking
"well, it's so small and easy to use, it must be just a developer
database." Sometimes I wonder, maybe if Java DB required a big installation and
lots of set up,...
Thanks to a tip from Simon, I was able to get in on the deal to get a free FON wireless router.
What is FON, you may ask? Well, it's kind of like a home exchange for network access points. If you use their router to set up your location as an access point for FON members, then you get to use any other FON member's access point absolutely free. If you're not a member, you can still use it for...
This was shown to all of us by Jim Bisso at our Visual Web engineering meeting today. An excellent parody of PowerPoint marketing, and great in it's own right.
I should have seen it coming. The company I work for is putting a lot of energy behind multi-core CPUs. Scaling on multi-core chips is becoming more and more important. But do I think about building a program so that it is highly parallel? No. I have enough to think about.
But there are signs that I need to start thinking about this. And if you aren't, you probably should.
Sigh. I'm...
Alex Iskold talks about how Yahoo! Pipes enables us to use the web as a database, showing the similarities between structured queries over the relational model and structured queries over RSS/Atom feeds.
The Semantic Web folks have a very similar vision, but the power of Yahoo! Pipes is that it takes advantage of an existing web standard (RSS/Atom) and does not try to impose yet another meta-...
I have been thinking for a while about how you data mashups: the ability to query and combine data source across the web into new data sources. I've looked at the Semantic Web, I've looked at Google Data and Amazon S3. To me what you want is a very very simple way to query web services in a way that a program can understand.
Now there is a new kid on the block for data mashups, and a...
