Archive for April, 2007

Funeral Blues — Auden

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,Silence the pianos and with muffled drumBring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overheadScribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,Let the traffic policemen wear [...]

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Cannot restart WEBrick server

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Although this is now totally obvious, I thought I’d point it out because it took me a minute to debug it today
An error in the environment.rb file will manifest itself in the server not being able to start. If you can’t get your WEBrick to restart, check the environment.rb…
 
My goodness how I miss a [...]

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The revolUXion has a new home…

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

or, at least a new RSS feed home
Dax has been busy!  We moved over the revolUXions to a real blog engine.  Unfortunately, everyone needs to update the links…
RSS feed
We’ll have comments enabled on each show, so any feedback would be great.
 
Stay tuned to the blog, we have a bunch of new ideas for the show, as well [...]

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tweet tweet tweet

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

This is how I exactly felt about twitter.  I thought of it as “group instant message.”  Now that I’ve left Ford, I no longer see those friends every day.  I thought twitter would be a way to keep in touch with them all at the same time.  As it turned out, the people I tweet [...]

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A Web 2.0 Framework for Real-time Location Intelligence

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

 

Abstract – With increasing deployments of Global Positioning System (GPS) devices, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, and other location-aware devices, it is now possible to capture time-varying object information. In addition, existing systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems emit ancillary object metadata (e.g., inventory levels in a warehouse). The challenge is how to [...]

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Kurt Vonnegut – 1922-2007

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

 
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

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YAML SHMAML

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Spent the day working with YAML and Ruby.  YAML is an object serialization strategy, and the integration with Ruby on Rails is really spectacular, it just kinda works. 
SOAP is to REST asYAML is to XML

Below is my YAML file, isn’t that purty?  Nice, readable, kind obvious what it does….
— http_server: port: 3000server: http://localhost/
live_feed: [...]

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The city by the bay…

Friday, April 13th, 2007

A reminder, I’m speaking at the Location Intelligence conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, April 18.  I’m going to be talking about our GeoBoost product (whitepaper), and our new GeoTemporal analysis views.  If you’re in SanFran, stop by and say hi!

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Vizzini: He didn’t fall? Inconceivable.Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Vizzini: He didn’t fall? Inconceivable.Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.The Princess Bride (1987)

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revolUXions episode #6

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Dax and I just posted the next revolUXions, “New Controls in WPF, Part 1.”  In this episode we look at the new controls available in WPF and .NET 3.
 

 
 
 
Technorati tags: revolUXions, wpf, xaml, ux

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