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Alchemy: C and C++ running in Flash
So you think Flash is fast now? Check out Alchemy as soon as you can. Alchemy was previewed 11 hours ago for the purpose of reusing existing C and C++ libraries in Flash Web applications.Alchemy is a research project that allows users to compile...
Why Tech Stocks are a Good Buy
I've been around. I got slammed in 1987 when the stock market crashed. I remember my parents getting crunched in 1980. There is an important cycle here that has been emerging in my head as a theory but it might be several years before we can fin...
Man pages that read more like legal contracts
Case in point: I want to use “find” to find files I’ve recently created. man find (BSD edition): -ctime n[smhdw] If no units are specified, this primary evaluates to true if the difference between the time of...
22nd Century @ 330 Ritch, Monday Nov 17
10:00 PM will hit the stage. Set list below:Peculiar - Original (for upcoming 2nd CD)Echo Beach - Punk version of Marth and MuffinsLive in Space - Original (off CD "The Twenty Second Century")No Secrets - Punk version of Angel City songLet me be ...
Double-neck Fender Pre Bass/ Stratocaster done!
It took me a while to complete this project but it is finally done. The body itself was built in 1986 by Cremer Guitarworks out of Illinois. I originally put some cheaper necks on it to test it out but it is now complete with a 2005 Pre bass and...
Lance Armstrong at Web 2.0 Summit?
While it would be hard to say which talks were the best, my high point was getting to personally meet up with Lance Armstrong. After watching him win a battle with cancer, then proceed to win the Tour de France 7 consecutive times, this is a pers...
Guid0: A Javascript GUID Generator
Guid0.js Guid0 is a GUID library for Javascript. Okay, it doesn't yet do official, bona fide, 128-bit, GUIDs yet, mainly for API design reasons. But this is a library you might find useful if you want to generate a unique ID in your Ajax app. Us...
Best paper award at MDWE workshop 2008
Our paper "A Metamodel Transformation Framework for the Migration of WebML Models to MDA" (by M. Brambilla, P. Fraternali, M. Tisi) was awarded the best paper prize at the 4th Int. Workshop on Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE 2008), colocated wi...
Watching James Ward demo Pixel Bender at jFall!
James Ward just did a great demo of Rich Tretola's AIR iteration of FotoBooth. Rich used the new Pixel Bender technology in Flash Player 10. The results are amazing!Download Rich's app at:http://blog.everythingflex.com/fotobooth/Original post at...
Duane's World TV now on Podcast
We have just finished uploading most episodes of Duane's World in high quality m4v format. The new site may be accessed at:http://www.duanesworldtv.comPlease let me know if you find any issues (public beta).Original post at http://technoracle.blo...
Special Mobile events at MAX 2008
A special bulletin from the awesome Lisa Powers!!!! Meet Lisa live at the show at 33o Ritch Club Monday Nov 17 from 10:00 - 12:00 if you have more questions!Mobile Summit at MAX 2008 – November 16Join Adobe and our partners — Nokia, Qualcomm®, Ve...
Duane's World Merchandise now available
A lot of people asked me if they could get a Duane's World T-Shirt. There is now a place to order via the Duane's World (not quite completed) web site.Here are some of my fav's:Army fatigue DW short with skull logoWomen's Ringer TOriginal post at...
Piotr and Duane: "Come to MAX in Milan!"
For anyone out there still with any doubt of whether or not they should come to MAX EMEA in Milan, Dec 1-4.Here is a partial list of the top evangelists and luminaries who will be there:Enrique DuvosJames GovernorPiotr WalczyszynChristophe Coenrae...
Duane's World Episode 13 - Konductor, How to Drag & Drop in AIR
This episode was filmed in Vancouver where I was lucky enough to catch up with Konductor Software's Derek Zarbrook. Derek demonstrates how Adobe AIR has been used to enhance a user's experience in content management, and how Dreamweaver extension...
MAX 2008 :: Going off big time and secret show!!!
I don't know what the limit is or how many more we can squeeze inside MAX, but I just got an internal email stating the number (sorry - cannot share) and I believe it will be amongst the largest 3 events I have attended this year! MAX is gonna ro...
Palin dupe not new, they did it to Bush too.
Having read of the great dupe whereby Sarah Palin got rooked by two Canadian pranksters, I had to both laugh and shake my head at the immensity of the stupidity. First - I laugh because it is good to remind us that no matter what our status in...
Beware Mutant Pumpkins!
Happy Halloween.Original post at http://technoracle.blogspot.com
Adobe Evangelists caught on video discussing MAX secrets
Warning - this is shocking! It may not be suitable for all family members, frightens small children and bruises fruit at up to 60 paces.Original post at http://technoracle.blogspot.com
Busy Adobe Evangelists? Private Party?
Well - this is the message I got today when I logged on. Guess which button I pushed?;-)For those of you who I did not get stuff done for - sorry about that. It will take me weeks just to organize the calendar which I do not have time for until ...
More greatness from fellow evangelist Lee Brimelow
Today Lee sent out a message internally. Here is the message:Today I interviewed Justin about the changes to the FileReference class. I’m sure you have heard about this a lot in your travels. You can direct people to this interview for more detai...
Defining RIA: Borders, a case study?
Rich Internet Application (RIA). What is it? How would you explain it to someone? It is not easy to do since the "rich" part is really subjective. For years I have thought about this definition as part of the Web 2.0 Patterns book and the trou...
Duane's World 12 - Open Source, Oysters and Beer!
This is part two of the coverage of Open Everything from Hollyhock. In this episode, I get to talk to Mark Surman (Shuttleworth Foundation) as well as collect further thoughts from Joel Solomon and Mozilla's Zak Greant. The code and tunes section ...
Flash SEO Research: Google DOES use Ichabod to index Flash
For Flash Search Engine Optimization fans, this will be very interesting!The first part of my research project into how Google and Yahoo use Ichabod to index flash is complete. OK. Before you get all excited about what you see above, let me give ...
Live Labs Web Sandbox
Earlier today we launched a technology preview for Web Sandbox, a project aimed at securing Web 2.0. The Sandbox applies techniques from programming languages to inject an interception layer that in effect virtualizes the execution of untrusted co...
The latest Video interview on Flash SEO from Web 2o0 in Berlin
Original post at http://technoracle.blogspot.com
Technoracle (a.k.a. "Duane's World"): Flash Search Engine Optimization tricks
Technoracle (a.k.a. "Duane's World"): Flash Search Engine Optimization tricksOriginal post at http://technoracle.blogspot.com
Flash Search Engine Optimization tricks
I just finished speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin on the topic "Search Engines and Flash: Secrets, Tricks, and Black Magic" Adobe Flash (*.swf) is a binary format and has not always been accessible to search engine spiders (small bits of code...
RedMonk captures Adobe-SAP SOA story
While many of us tech-heads have lived in ServiceLand for years, the mainstream media and analyst communities have not fully understood the true benefits. RedMonk, the analyst firm out of the UK, is IMO one of the first to really put the pieces o...
Apple losing the Web 2.0 crowd?
Last year at the Berlin Web 2.0 conference, I took this photograph of the entire front row sporting Mac laptops. The blog post was entitled "Does Apple own Web 2.0?".This year the trend has seemed to be more of a Microsoft/Mac stalemate. It appe...
Offline Sound: No Flash, No File
I just did some tinkering with offline sound and it turns out you can embed an audio clip in an HTML file, and play it without using Flash. I could have demo'd this in a raw HTML file, but it was just as easy to stick it in a Tiddlywiki file. So I...
For Browser Extensions, Grease is the Word
Chrome now has Greasemonkey support. The Chromium patch came from Aaron Boodman, who is at once a Google employee and the brains behind the original Firefox Greasemonkey extension. It makes me wonder if this is the plan for Chrome add-ons. Forget...
Drupal User Group Talk on Flex/AIR, PHP and Zend
Here is the video. Special thanks to Lee Brimelow and Kevin Hoyt for the help and code samples on this topic. Yes - I did really scoop the last cold beer at the meeting! If you want the slides, please email me at dnickull at adobe dot com.Origi...
Drupal User Group Talk and Code Samples
Last night in Vancouver I spoke at the Drupal User Group about Flex and PHP. Kevin Hoyt is owed a major thanks for helping me get set up in time and wrote a ton of materials for the class. The gist was to talk about how to use a Flex front end f...
Jon Bosak on PDF, ODF and OOXML
I have known Jon Bosak for years. For most, he needs no introduction and has been credited with many things from being a co-inventor of XML to really moving technical standards into the limelight they deserve. Most people are completely in the d...
Buy! Buy! Buy!
I got up early at 6:00 today thinking I would beat other investors to the punch on the TSX exchange to buy Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce stock at $48. After all, the dividend yields roughly 7.5% at that price! Way to slow! By the time the ...
Why I hate Wikipedia
I have ranted about Wikipedia going from a worthwhile, exciting example of how to harness collective intelligence to a micro-managed fiefdom who's ruling class does not tolerate any dissent. The main issue is their "notable" clause, instructing e...
Political Streams Online
A project I've been involved with for the first part of the year is now live, just in time for the election season. My fingerprints are on the underlying platform called Social Streams. One of my favorite features is the ability to navigate across...
Why there is no Web 2.0 Architecture Document
Following my previous post, I received a rash of emails with people generally agreeing, some laughing (they were there and it brought up memories) and thanking me for this article. I also received a couple of emails from people who were generally...
“Can’t Open Your E-Mailbox? Good Luck.” Actually, Make Your Own Luck
New York Times has a popular article about an important topic: getting locked out of your webmail account: LOGGING on to Gmail or other e-mail service has become a routine of daily life, completed without a thought. What would you do, however, i...
Forensic Architecture and other lessons from SOA land.
Forensic Architecture! What is it? I use this term to refer to the process of describing the architecture of something after it has been built. It is a largely frustrating, cumbersome process yet I seem to have made a career out of it. Let me ...
I am Carbon Man!!
According to Dopplr.com, my carbon debt is just a bit on the high side. In fact, it shows that in 2008 alone, I have added over 22,500 kg (about 50,000 lbs) of carbon into the atmosphere. Sorry about that.I guess the 12 trees I planted on Mayne ...
Vale SOX? Obligatory Sarbanes-Oxley Mention
I can't let the current credit crunch / financial crisis / Wall St meltdown pass without mentioning the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, aka SOX. I feel compelled to do so because I haven't seen it mentioned once in the mainstream media during the past fortni...
InterAct 2008 - a great conference in DC
The 2008 InterAct conference is one of the best run, most relevant conferences I have attended. Not only did it completely sell out (both attendees and exhibitors), I got the distinct impression it was really appreciated by all the people I talke...
A real Fire Drill at the US Commerce Department
I am in DC and just saw a fire drill as the US Commerce Department while enjoying my morning Espresso. I couldn't help but point out the metaphor to some employees outside given the current economic crisis. We had a good talk and they went back ...
An OpenSocial Sketch
My fellow Osmosoftie Paul Downey made this bodacious sketch when I ran through my @Media Ajax presentation on OpenSketch: If you haven't seen his handiwork before, he has a great talent for this distinctive style of text. Check them out. He als...
Duane's World 11 - Open Source, Open Everything
Part 1 of a two part show about the Open Everything event from Hollyhock on Cortes Island, BC. Duane interviews Joel Solomon who talks about Renewal Partners, social change and technology while contemplating what “Open” really means. During the ...
Stop using the term "Web 3.0"!!!
I recently became aware that despite attempts to educate people to the contrary, the term "Web 3.0" continues to be used. It is only natural I guess given we use the term "Web 2.0". I do believe using either term in a purely literal sense is fla...
MAX AIR Boot Camp filling up fast
The talk James Ward and I are delivering on day one of Adobe MAX 2008 is filling up fast. The talk is entitled AIR Boot Camp and will be delivered both in San Francisco and Milan. Curious about AIR? This is the place to go! If you are planning...
How about a solution that benefits the people (gasp!)
I am angered today by the continuing rhetoric from Washington on how to solve the financial sector meltdown. The powers that be want to spend Americans tax dollars (hard earned by the average American) to bail out big Wall Street firms. Under th...
Reflections from a TiddlyWiki Tiddler and Thoughts on a Guide for Web App Development with TiddlyWiki
I've recently begun working on a project with Osmosoft, which I'll announce Real Soon Now, and have got my hands dirty with TiddlyWiki to the point where I'm now able to make at least some useful functionality. You effectively get an MVC framework...