On my way to Tokyo, November 2nd, for the Delphi 2005 launch, I read an article in the New York Times World Business section. The article was titled "India Taps China’s Reserve Of Technical Talent". InfoSys Technologies has a division (Infosys Technologies (Shanghai) in China to give them an additional source of "unlimited, low-cost human […]
Do you talk back to your computer? If you have a camera connected to your computer, would you let the computer scan your face to look for expressions? What if your keyboard and desk could check for sweaty palms to know you are nervous or upset (or furiously coding)? Can (or should) a computer respond […]
Back in October I first read BusinessWeek Online’s interview with Steve Jobs in their Voices of the Innovators series of articles. The title of the interview article is "The Seed of Apple’s Innovation". I enjoyed reading about Jobs focusing on important projects, "saying no to 1,000 things so as to concentrate on the really important" […]
More than 30 years ago, Ken Bowles and Mark Overgaard started what became, the UCSD Pascal. I had a copy of it on my Apple II before Philippe Kahn gave me a Turbo Pascal v1 floppy disk at Fall Comdex Las Vegas 1983. For some of you who don’t know - UCSD Pascal was the first […]
I was reading the SD Times Monday 11/08/2004 e-newsletter about the Java Business Integration (JBI) specification being in Early Draft Review status. The close of the early draft review is November 22, 2004.
Quoting from the JSR 208 page - "Java Business Integration JSR (JBI) extends J2EE with business integration SPIs (service provider interfaces)." JSR 208 […]
I spent three days in Vancouver last week at the OOPSLA 2004 conference. It was great to be back at this wonderful conference after a two year hiatus (2002 I was travelling, 2003 it was the week before Borland Conference 2003).
They always have a good bookstore at OOPSLA filled with the latest methodology, process, and […]