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Here's Michael Rueger and John McIntosh at Smalltalk Solutions 2008, talking about Sophie. You can grab the slides here, and the video here.
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Here's Michael Rueger and John McIntosh at Smalltalk Solutions 2008, talking about Sophie. You can grab the slides here, and the audio here.
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Well, at least at the main paper there, the Inquirer. Get a load of their "thinking" these days:
Colleagues - Beginning today, we are adopting an Inquirer first policy for our signature investigative reporting, enterprise, trend stories, news features, and reviews of all sorts. What that means is that we won't post those stories online until they're in print. We'll cooperate with philly.com, as we do now, in preparing extensive online packages to accompany our enterprising work. But we'll make the decision to press the button on the online packages only when readers are able to pick up The Inquirer on their doorstep or on the newsstand.
As Jeff Jarvis notes, that means it's time to get out for any reporters stuck there. I simply can't believe that this is what passes for "thought leadership" at a media outfit now.
The "synergy" behind all of those airline mergers is coming home now with higher fuel prices. It's my opinion that even had fuel prices dropped, something very similar would have happened anyway: large mergers just don't work well:
The global airline industry will fly 60m fewer seats in the run-up to Christmas - equivalent to a 7% cut in flights - as high oil prices and the economic downturn force carriers to cut services.
Experts predict even deeper cuts in 2009 as part of a prolonged retrenchment of an industry that has expanded rapidly in recent years. Airlines will offer 59.7m fewer seats between October and December compared with the same period last year, according to flight information company OAG. Britain's biggest carriers have already confirmed significant capacity cuts, with Ryanair, easyJet and British Airways all reducing services.
This is a lot like what we saw in the train industry a century ago (consolidation and route reduction), and in the car industry starting about 50 years ago (consolidation and reduction). There have just been too many seats chasing too few passengers (even with the expansion in flying over the last few decades) to sustain as many airlines and planes as there have been.
On today's Smalltalk Daily, we take a look at Byte classes.
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I took this from the observation deck outside the "California Grill" at the Contemporary Resort - it was a wonderful dinner:
Wired quotes Dean Kaminsky, who explains that the DNS flaw that's been reported is worse than we thought:
"There are a ton of different paths that lead to doom," says Dan Kaminsky, who finally revealed the full details of a security hole that's rattled the net.
yet another thing to file under "we don't know what we don't know"...
On today's Smalltalk Daily, we take a look at Ephemeron classes
Cuil is still suffering from the "misbegotten image problem - here are some search results for "Smalltalk"
We did attend OOP 2008, but it's not exactly a related icon for my blog...
According to a California judge, not so much - she ruled that surreptitiously made copies of email were fine, because - technically speaking - they were copied from storage, not while in transmission:
The issue boils down to the judicial definition of an intercept in the electronic age, in which packets of data move from server to server, alighting for milliseconds before speeding onward. The ruling applies only to the 9th District, which includes California and other Western states, but could influence other courts around the country.
In August 2007, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, in the Central District of California, ruled that the alleged hacker, Rob Anderson, had not intercepted the e-mails in violation of the 1968 Wiretap Act because they were technically in storage, if only for a few instants, instead of in transmission.
If that definition holds up, then anyone could grab anything, and it wouldn't qualify as interception. Can someone apply some common sense to this?
I thought it was good news when American announced WiFi for their long haul flights - now Delta has upped the ante, and announced it for their entire fleet:
American Airlines and Virgin America have been on-board for some time with in-flight Wi-Fi. Both have announced testing of Wi-Fi aboard its airliners for a limited number of flights. But Delta is making a big splash with an ambitious rollout of Wi-Fi to all its domestic fleet. This is big news coming from an airline that has been struggling lately.
I might have to consider my flying choices again...
Technorati Tags: wifi, air travel
On today's Smalltalk Daily, we'll take a look at creating custom weak objects.
No one wants to manage all of their IT services themselves, and lots of companies have would be well served by not handling that themselves. However, this Google service story explains the need for a solid terms of service contract:
Nick Saber isn't happy now. Monday afternoon, after lunch, Nick came back from lunch to find out that he couldn't get into his Gmail account. Further, he couldn't get into anything that Google made (beside search) where his account credentials once worked. When attempting to log in, Nick got a single line message:
Sorry, your account has been disabled.
The vast well of non-information sounds pretty disturbing. Google is a classic engineering led company, and this non-customer responsive thing accentuates that.
Technorati Tags: cloud computing, PR, marketing
Settling in now, and the pool is looking inviting. Travel went without a hitch today, so - so far, so good.
I'll be heading out for vacation soon, so the pace of posting will get slower. I do have "Smalltalk Daily" posts queued up already, so those will come out regularly. I probably won't get to any of the Smalltalk Solutions content until I return though - other than next week's podcast, which will be from the conference.
It turns out that you can define your own collection classes in Smalltalk without using delegation to an instance variable; today's Smalltalk Daily shows you how.
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