Alex Miller blogs about a few things to come Java 7, such as the former draft on JSR-292 invokedynamic, the web service’s connector for JMX — JSR-262 — and a few more interrelated notes on NIO2.
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Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research spelt an astonishing report gentled And Straight off for the News…The Emperor Has No Clothes”. If you can catch a copy, interpret it. Starting with the unsatisfying but waited news that journalism is no longer a service consumers want to pay for, he travels on to the problems presenting Internet video. He does a far best job than I of all time did explicating the failings of Internet video and the expectation of liberal content. This is the report I bid I had blogged.
From the report:
Ironically, we are headed up down the same self-destructive road for other kinds of traditional media,as good. Five years into the video-over-the-Internet revolution, we have got word two things. For the first time; consumers won”t pay for content on the web, so it will have to be ad supported. And second; it won”t be ad supported.
In the cable TV network world, half of all revenues come from affiliate (carriage) fees paid by the Comcasts and
DirecTVs of the world. The other half comes from promoting. But in the TV world, a distinctive half hour show bears out an ad load of about 8 minutes.
On the web, other evidence intimates that consumers will tune up out – click off – if they are haled to see more than 30 seconds or indeed of publicising up front, and peradventure another 90 seconds of advertising over the next thirty minutes. Hulu.com, for example, which has already been lionized by many as the future of TV, dishs two minutes of advertising for every 22 minutes of programming(i.
e. the programming duration of a distinctive half hour show from television). Arrogating selfsame CPMs for web video and TV, and after accounting for turned a loss affiliate fees, a 30 narrow program on the web with two minutes of advertising paies around 1/8th as much revenue per viewer. (more…)
In July I will be paying a keynote address at GUADEC , the one-year GNOME conference, being maintained this year in Istanbul.
In September I will be addressing once more at the Business of Software conference, being kept this year in Boston.
And lastly, for something completely unlike, don’t omit the Jam Session at Tech-Ed on June 3rd. Several of us minions from SourceGear are bing after to read the stage and pay our rendition of Pinball Wizard. It’ll be me on acoustical guitar, our development manager Jeremy Sheeley on bass, and our product manager Paul Roub runing the Evil Mastermind Schecter PT that will be paid off later that week.
And BTW, none of us will be trimed as The Vicious Mastermind. This should be obvious, as The Vicious Mastermind would ne’er do something in reality nerveless like a song by The Who. Kind of, he would do something like a Kelly Clarkson song and erroneously trust it was nerveless. 
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After positing my last post (rant), I re-taken it and had a thought pass off. Perhaps I besides should depict humility and read the affirmative view that the developers of these projects in truth did have good reasons for their reinventions and innovations.
Perchance someplace in this world is a developer considering honest-to-goodness code that I droped a line, avering “WTF!?!?”. I’m certain I as well had a reason…
Project Distributor: Introduction to our staggered web service model
So Darren and I have assigned in about a month at present on the Project Distributor website. We are begining to progress to that decisive point where the site is pretty coolheaded, we have plenty of users, we are thinking of operating out of the permissible bandwidth for the demo site, and all sorts of other things that lean to bechance all at erstwhile. At present, there are some problems you can plan yourself out of, and others that you in truth have to hold some money at. Our up-to-the-minutest enhancements can be summarized up in a little list.
I’m hither to talk about the last two, since Darren already corrupted some extra hosting for us. The concept will be to free a fairly static version of the application so that groups can host tools, code snippets and other source/binary releases for their teams to partake in. The application is very lightweight and well-heeled to set-up, so it won”t require a bunch of hand holding and configuration to get up and running initially. From our standpoint we resolve a number of issues at this juncture. The most obvious problem is what we separate the Lutz Roeder use case..NET Reflector is the central type of application we’500 love to catch hosted because it makes believe it a bit well-fixed to find oneself, not that Google does a tough job, we’d simply like to get a bunch of tools in one place, with some features for feedback, novel releases, and some nerveless client tools for printing.
Is there anything more fun than riding about, developing your hair, pledging a Bud while listening to Jethro Tull and ruminating how to exchange the balance of power in the search world and unseat Google ?
Best search ? Too immanent. Better monetization ? After the fact. Best User Interface ? Will we cognise it when we fancy it ? A newfangled and dissimilar search ? Semantic ? Human powered ? We won”t know till we know.
But what about the Google Index, all the websites that are indexed by Google ? What is it deserving to be in the Google Index ? What would you, as a website owner require in order to take your site from the Google Index and no longer be uncommitted when someone does a google search ?
It should simply be a matter of dollars and cents and sense, shouldn’t it ?
How many websites would have to recuse themselves from the Google Index before Google Search was negatively touched on ?
Mahalo.com intends it demands to sustain the 25k most common search terms in order to be successful. What would encounter if MicroSoft or Yahoo or a MicroHoo attended the 5 top results for the top 25k searches and compensated them to allow the Google Index ?
A theoretic maximum of 125k sites, but with overlap, in all probability closer to 100k or less, times how much per site on average ?
The math starts out to pay back interesting. At $1,000 per site median times 100k sites, thats only when $ 1 Billion Dollars. The distribution would plain favour the bigger sites, indeed of that billion dollars, would the top 1k sites get hold of 500k each and the resting 99k parted the rest ? (more…)
Whenever I head a project, I e’er essay to plan in such a way that arranges me and my team up for success. I do this in many ways, starting with a dear methodology, doing exhaustive analysis, and allowing for a level of risk/certainty on with any estimates I allow for.
Part of this strategy takes insuring that client expectations couple developer and project expectations. I be given to utilize the essayed and honest approach; “Plan for the spoiled, hope for the betterest”.
Some people view me as a pessimist, but I implore to dissent – I view myself a misanthropical, yet affirmative, realist. By that, I think of that although I do design everything based upon the spoilt case scenario, in my heart I really consider we are geting going to reach the betterest case scenario every time. It oft surprises me when people read my approach to be electronegative while at the same time, I frequently consider their set about primitive & overly affirmative.
The truth is that there appears to be a gradient scale of attitudes and philosophies employed from project to project depending upon the people conducting and participating in the project.
Over the years, I began a individual game in my head of making nicknames for the dissimilar patterns of behavior. Hither are a few names of I have toyed with in the past:
“Require the spoiled, then add 20%” - The Pessimist
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We just posted some updated bits and samples for ASP.NET Dynamic Data… I encourage you to go pick them up and let us know what you think…
Some cool new stuff in this release:
Scott Hunter recently did a HanselMinutes podcast that you should check out..
ScottGu did a post recently that hits the high points of Dynamic Data…
Give them a try, we’d love to have your feedback!
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/dynamicdata
http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/04/23/updated-asp-net-dynamic-data-bits-posted.aspx
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Do you know where your data is? If you’ve been involved with software at any point in the past two decades, chances are it’s in a database. It would seem silly to put data, especially frequently changing data, into code.
How about those business rules? Business rule engines haven’t been around as long as databases, but times are a-changin’. Imagine a world where the folks that come up with the rules can enter them, test them and even deploy them without having the development team so much as lift a finger. Costs are signifigantly lowered, deadlines are met, everyone gets bonuses and is promoted to figurehead VP positions.
Interested? Please stop by and check out our webcast next week:
Rules for Enterprise Agility: Webcast, March 15th, 11am CT
IT architects, application developers, business analysts and process owners will learn about best practices for rules-oriented architecture and application development, and how business rule engines can provide substantial benefits in consistent decision making, increased revenue and decreased operating costs.Also see: Uniqueness Typing Simplified
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Featured speakers include industry analyst and veteran application development expert Dr. Adrian Bowles, and Larry Buettner, CIO of Wheels, Inc. and a member of ComputerWorld’s 2006 list of Premier 100 IT Leaders.More information: http://www.inrule.com/Event_Info.aspx
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