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Eclipse Conference Season

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:05:12 -0700

As we near the end of summer, conference season seems to be starting and there are a number of Eclipse conferences being organized.The producers of the successful JAX conferences in Europe are starting a new Java and Eclipse oriented conference in San Jose, called JAX San Jose on Oct. 5-9. There is some great Eclipse content and an impressive line-up of speakers. It is nice to see a new...

Calacanis, Arrington Talk TechCrunch50 On TechTicker

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:54:34 -0700

TechTicker’s Sarah Lacy interviewed Jason Calacanis and Michael Arrington about the upcoming TechCrunch50 conference. The first two segments are up. In the first segment, Lacy talks to the two about the origins of the conference and why they are so determined to end payola in tech events.

The conference is back on Sept. 8 and now dubbed TechCrunch50 for the 52 companies debuting at it. (Don’t ask.) It’s being held the same day as Demo this year and tech folks are choosing sides carefully. For a two-year-old conference, TechCrunch certainly has some big-name loyalists. Among its panel of experts are Marissa Mayer of Google, Marc Andreessen of Netscape, Opsware and Ning fame, Mark Cuban, Chad Hurley of YouTube, and some of the Valley’s most powerful investors. Not bad.

Center stage are the startups. Both Calacanis and Arrington are known for rubbing some people the wrong way, but even critics admit these are two guys obsessed with helping fledgling entrepreneurs. They don’t charge companies to present and spend hours with each one, helping founders hone their pitches.

In part two Lacy dives down into one of the trends we’re seeing with this year’s applicants: next generation virtual worlds. This is already big business, and tech advances are letting users do and see more with less bandwidth.

Segments 3-4 will be on TechTicker Friday.

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MooTools Accordion: Mouseover Style

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:00:36 -0700

TechCrunch50 Is Oversold

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:54:33 -0700

The TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco next Monday through Wednesday is now oversold. We had originally anticipated as many as 1,500 attendees (50% more than last year), but we blew through that number earlier this week and are now at around 1,650 attendees. The venue actually holds this many people without any problems, but we have to order more infrastructure stuff to accommodate everyone.

We will be cutting off ticket sales tonight at midnight or when we hit 1,700 attendees, whichever comes first, to get a final attendance count. So if you plan on attending, get on the ball now.

The final agenda is now on the TechCrunch50 site as well. Check the blog for regular updates.

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Submit Your Toughest Questions For VCs on TechCrunch50 Panel

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:54:40 -0700

We’re all gearing up for TechCrunch50 next week, and with all the startups and venture capitalists at the conference we thought it would be a good opportunity to talk about what it takes to get VC funding these days and whether or not venture capital even maters as much as it once did. I will be grilling a panel of VCs on what they are looking for these days, how spooked they are by the liquidity drought, and how the venture capital game in general is changing. The VCs on the panel will be Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Raj Kapoor (Mayfield Fund), Ross Levinsohn (Velocity Interactive Group), Sumant Mandal (Clearstone Venture Partners), George Zachery (Charles River Ventures).

I’ve got plenty of questions for them, but would also like to know what you would ask them. Submit your questions in comments, and I will select some of the best ones to ask the VCs on stage. (If you like a question that’s already been submitted, you can second it (or refine) by replying to that comment). Here are some questions to get the ball rolling:

1. At what point does the lack of IPO exits start to impact what you will invest in today? And how?

2. You are still raising plenty of money, is it harder or easier to invest than in the past?

3. Have you seen any startups in the past three years that could be the next Google or Facebook?

4. Do startups even need venture capital anymore with so much angel and corporate money out there, and with startup costs for Web companies going down?

5. How are you competing against all the seed incubators popping up all over the place like Y Combinator, Tech Stars, LaunchBox, DreamIt, etc.?

6. What are the biggest problems that need solving that startups should be focusing on right now?

7. What business models will you absolutely no longer invest in?

8. Is there any danger of innovation dying in Silicon Valley?

9. What was the most memorable pitch you ever saw? What was the most effective?

10. Does Silicon Valley need a shakeout? Are we already seeing one?

I need ten more.

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Submit your talks for PPW 2008!

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:52:11 -0700

ehdonhon writes "The call for papers for the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is still open, but not for long. It's time to step up and submit your talk. Don't you want to be part of the excitement? Don't you have something to share with the Perl community? Don't you want to make your mark on the historic PPW? Of course you do! So why put if off? Submit your talk now. Just click: http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/newtalk and fill out the form. It's that easy. But don't delay! Claim your speaking spot while there's still time."

Eventful for iPhone - Eventful

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:04:27 -0700

Bar Camp Vancouver 2008

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:57:23 -0700

OneWebDay " About

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:58:32 -0700

[from swwsman] APLYCADOS - Foro de Contratación Pública

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:00:09 -0700

[from swwsman] e- Contratación Pública. Seminarios y Congresos sobre Derecho ...

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:00:09 -0700

This Week In Philly - Philadelphia Events Blog

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:56:31 -0700

TechCrunch50: We Need Student Volunteers, Last DemoPit Tables Have Opened Up

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:54:24 -0700

TechCrunch50 starts next Monday in San Francisco. We’re on track to sell out the 1,500 available tickets sometime in the next 48 hours. We’ll have a bunch of updates for attendees here and on the TC50 blog over the next few days.

Here are two updates now: We need more student volunteers, and we’re opening up the last five demopit spots to non-TC50 applicants.

Student Volunteers: Here’s the deal - work a day for us and enjoy the other two days free. Alternatively you can register for all three days for just $150 and skip the work. Frankly, volunteering for a day is actually fun, and you get to see the inner workings of a conference (ever hear about making sausage?). Either way, it’s great to have a lot of students at the event to round out the audience. Plus, everyone is trying to hire you. If you want to volunteer, email Tanya at TechCrunch dot com.

DemoPit: The TechCrunch DemoPit is a way for the 1000+ startups that applied to TechCrunch50 but didn’t make the final cut to participate. You get tickets for half the normal price and you also get to exhibit your company for one of the three days. Just like last year, you collect poker chips from attendees and whoever gets the most gets the last spot on stage at the end of the conference. We’ve sold most of these spots, but five are left and available to startups who want to pitch something new. Email Dan at TechCrunch dot com if you want to be considered, no later than Tuesday afternoon. After that we go to the printers for signage, and we need some time to review the requests.

More news soon. See you next Monday.

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OPUS - Ein Event-Modell für WS-BPEL 2.0 und dessen Realisierung in Apache ODE - Steinmetz, Thomas

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:56:32 -0700

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Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:59:52 -0700

Announcing A Grassroots Roundtable And 100 Tickets Available For TechCrunch MeetUp in Austin

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:54:13 -0700

Today, we are releasing 100 additional tickets for the TechCrunch Meet-Up in Austin, Texas with the team from Austin Ventures. As previously reported, we are in town on Thursday, September 25 just in time for the Austin City Limits music festival.

Get your tickets now, as we only expect to release one additional round of tickets prior to the event. We do have a handful of three day ACL passes, including backstage access and admission to the Austin Venture tent, to give away to sponsors and designated attendees.

Also, I will be hosting a Roundtable Discussion prior to the Pangaea Meet-Up, at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center located on the University of Texas at Austin campus. This will be similar in format to the Mobile Web Wars Roundtable I hosted in July—two dozen founders, CEOs, VCs, and execs in a room talking about an issue, live streamed over the Web. The theme of the Roundtable will be “The Web Starts at the Grassroots”. It will focus on how to use the Web to build grassroots support for startups, brands, politicians, and social causes. Look for a post from me later in the week with details on participants and access to tickets. If you are interested in joining as a participant, please reach out to me via email this week.

The TechCrunch Austin Ventures Meet-Up will be held at Pangea, one of the hottest new venues in Austin. At Pangaea we will feature local start-ups and other sponsors, starting at 5:30 p.m. (central time) and running to 10:00 p.m. (or whenever they kick us out).

All of the proceeds from the TechCrunch Austin Ventures Meet-Up will benefit the Lance Armstrong Foundation, an organization uniting people to fight cancer – believing that unity is strength, knowledge is power and attitude is everything.

In addition to releasing tickets for the Austin Meet-Up, sponsorship opportunities and demo tables are now available for companies to show off their products. If you want to support the event, please contact Jeanne Logozzo or Heather Harde. If you are a member of the press wanting to cover the event, please contact Sarah Ross.

Attendee identification will be checked at the door. Tickets are not transferable and not refundable. If you use your name to purchase multiple tickets, your guests must arrive with you to check in at the door.

We look forward to seeing you in Austin.

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Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:59:26 -0700

CEP is Not BPM, BAM, BRE, BRMS or SOA | The Complex Event Processing Blog

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:58:31 -0700

ISKO UK - International Society for Knowledge Organization

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:57:28 -0700

PodCamp New Media Community UnConference

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:56:11 -0700

Second Ubuntu Developer Week!

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:10:55 -0700

The second Ubuntu Developer Week will be held from Sep 1st to Sep 5th in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net.

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‘There are Wiki docs, MOTU Videos, MOTU Interviews and we’re seeing more and more contributors each day. This is all good and well, but there’s nothing like talking to real people, asking real questions in a real-time environment.

‘The Ubuntu Developer Week is designed to give you an overview of what’s going on in the Ubuntu Developer world. Speak to the developers, learn, ask questions and finally realise “It’s true, I *can* make a difference by helping out here.”

‘Let’s take a closer look at the sessions we have:

Packaging 101 - MOTU Daniel Holbach will talk you through the bare-bone structure of an Ubuntu package and how to get there the easiest way.
Upstream Bug Linkages - In his session Jorge Castro will demonstrate the importance of linking Upstream bugs, acting as a liaison with upstream projects and be an important tie between upstream projects and Ubuntu.
Introduction to MOTU - Iulian Udrea has been very active in the MOTU team and will share his experiences with you and of course answer all your questions.
Soyuz and all that Jazz - Celso Providelo is not only going to run one session, he’s going to run two. This is the second one and will get you up to scratch on Launchpad’s Distribution Management.
Working with Ubuntu<->GNOME QA (tips&tricks) - Pedro Villavicencio is amazing. He’s from Chile, knows GNOME Bug numbers by heart and just generally a great guy. Obviously he’s in touch with the GNOME Bug Squad a lot, he will show you how to contribute to both Ubuntu, and GNOME at the same time.
How do I fix an Ubuntu bug? - Daniel Holbach will take you on the journey from finding a bug to work on, the process of fixing it and getting it integrated into Ubuntu.
Introduction to BZR - David Futcher has used bzr in his work on Ubuntu and will guide you on your way of learning one of the most important tools in today’s development ecosystem: distributed revision control.
Kernel module packaging with DKMS - Mario Limonciello will talk you through state of the art kernel module packaging with DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support).
Using the Launchpad Web Service API - Leonard Richardson and Barry Warsaw, two of the Launchpad hackers behind the Launchpad Web Service API will demonstrate a few examples and answer questions about the project that is hopefully going to put an end to all Launchpad screen-scraping.
Launchpad Hacks - Brian Murray, Ubuntu’s bugmaster does bug triage, bug statistics and chearleading on #ubuntu-bugs at day and writes Greasemonkey scripts at night. He’s done a lot of useful little hacks that make Bug Triage quicker and more fun. He will show you how.
bzr for packaging - After David Futcher’s session and if you’re into packaging, you should be ready to go for James Westby and the magic he will teach you. James is not only author of bzr-builddeb, but also heavily involved in DistributedDevelopment.
How do I update a package properly - If that’s the question you’ve pondering yourself, MOTU and Mentoring Mastermind Cesare Tirabassi is your man. Updating, Building, Testing, Tips and Tricks all included in the session.
Introduction to PPAs - Launchpad hacker Celso Providelo has put a lot of work into Soyuz and PPAs. He will explain how to make the best use of Personal Package Archives.
Introduction to the Server Team - Mathias Gug of the Server Team is a brilliant guy - always around to help you get started in the Ubuntu’s server land, generally helpful and easy to work with. His session will show you where to get involved if you’re into Ubuntu and servers.
Various ways to patch a package - Two great french contributors in the MOTU team, Christophe Sauthier and Didier Roche, are delivering this session: get ready to patch packages and make your changes fit neatly into existing packages.
Automated Testing for the Desktop - Ara Pulido has been busy working on automated Desktop tests for Ubuntu and will show how to make best use of them, how to get started and what to bear in mind.
A WebKit browser in PyKDE - You’re into KDE? Always wanted to start hacking? Jonathan Riddell is definitely your man: he’ll show you how much fun PyKDE is.
Having fun with the Mozilla Team - Firefox, Extensions, Xulrunner, Thunderbird, etc is right up your alley? Alexander Sack and the Mozilla Team are the people you’re looking for.
How to avoid making Archive Admins unhappy - Lots of changes Ubuntu Developers upload land directly in the archive admins for extra scrutiny checks. Steve Langasek gives the ultimate session to avoid common pitfalls and make archive admins enjoy their work with you.
Ask Matt - Matt Zimmerman is not only amazing, he’s also technical leader of the Ubuntu project, CTO of Canonical, chair of the Technical Board and great at playing the guitar. We are happy to have him here to run a Q&A session with him.
Unit testing Python code, with code coverage measurement - Debian and Ubuntu developer Lars Wirzenius is going to talk about code testing and code coverage measurement. If you want to learn how to write good code, make sure you don’t miss the session.
Introduction to the Installer Team - Ever wondered how Ubuntu’s installer works? Did you ever think: “I’d really like to get involved there.”? This is your chance, meet Evan Dandrea.
Introduciton to the Security Team - Kees Cook and Jamie Strandboge are amazing, they work day and night to keep your and your mom’s Ubuntu machine safe and secure. Want to get started in the Security world? Kees and Jamie will show you how.
Kernel Discussion - We have Ben Collins here who will lead the Kernel discussion. Ever wanted to help out Ubuntu’s Kernel hackers? Ever wanted to know how you can get a foot into the door in the Kernel team? This is your chance.

Check out the timetable, how to join in and the “rules.”

MySQL 5.1 Use Case Competition ? until end of September!

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:05:44 -0700

We timed our Use Case Competition to coincide with summer holidays, and are now prolonging the duration of the Use Case Competition with one month, until 30 September 2008.

To recap, here’s the original posting (with an updated deadline):

With 5.1 having officially been in Release Candidate status since September 2007 and soon approaching GA status, the MySQL Community Team launches a competition for the users of new features of MySQL 5.1:

Submit your MySQL 5.1 Use Case Report to community(at)mysql.com by 30 September 2008 and have a chance of winning one of our prizes:

1st-3rd prize: A MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 Pass, including a dinner with MySQL co-founder Michael “Monty” Widenius

4th-10th prize: MySQL Community Contributor T-shirts

11th-20th prize: A Sakila mascot (MySQL’s pet dolphin)

You may phrase your MySQL 5.1 Use Case Report freely, but the more colour you give it, the better your chances of winning.

By submitting the report, you also volunteer for appearing in our upcoming Use Case articles. We will consider any data you submit in your Use Case Report as public and quotable in our reports. However, you may ask us to anonymise certain aspects of your use case, should you otherwise not be able to participate in our competition.

This is the desired format of your submissions:

From: <you> To: Community(at)mysql.com Cc: <any of your colleagues you wish to inform> Subject: MySQL 5.1 Use Case Report: <Feature> / <App Name>

MySQL Community Team,
At <company/organisation> we've used <new 5.1 feature> since <date>.

We're now on MySQL 5.1.<n> and we started development using <new 5.1 feature> with MySQL.5.1.<m>.
Purpose of our appication:

Reason we need <new 5.1 feature>:

Development environment, OS, language:

Deployment environment, OS, hardware:

Relevant metrics on size/type of application:

Our comment on how <new 5.1 feature> meets our needs: - comments on usability of feature - comments on clarity of documentation - comments on performance - comments on bugs encountered [1]

Our greetings to the MySQL Engineering Team:

Name and email of submitter / developer:

Name of organisation:

Geographic location (city, country):

MySQL Enterprise customer: (YES/NO)

[1] If you’ve found bugs, then please follow our bug reporting instructions and share bug numbers from bugs.mysql.com in your use case report.

We’re looking for Use Cases on all new MySQL 5.1 features, but especially on

Partitioning: Doc * Forum * Articles JonS & PeterG, RobinS, RS2, Giuseppe

Row-Based Replication: Doc * Forum

Event Scheduler: Doc * Forum

Logs on demand / Table logging: Doc * Forum * Article Giuseppe

Plugin API: Doc

XML functions: Doc * Article: Bar & PeterG

but also other improvements: Doc *Article Jay

Links:

MySQL 5.1 Article Recap: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-5.1-recap.html

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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:01:07 -0700

Develop | Oracle OpenWorld 2008

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:06:13 -0700

HTML DOM Event Object

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:43:22 -0700

Eventos Javascript

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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:27:14 -0700

W3C DOM Events

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:59:27 -0700

Japan’s Kao Chekki (Face Check) Proves That Vanity Apps Know No Boundaries

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:07:51 -0700

On Facebook, there is no shortage of apps that tell you what celebrity you look like based on your photo (FaceDouble is the most popular), but in Japan we like our vanity apps on our mobile phones. After all, the camera is built in. Take the case of Kao Chekki (Face Check) by J-Magic, a web company that was totally unknown until the end of April 2007, when it caused a Japan-wide frenzy with its free Kao Chekki service. By June 2007, the mobile site had registered an incredible 20 million requests, and continues to be popular to this day.

The service is quite simple and cleverly plays with human vanity: People submit their photograph from their cell phones to check which (Japanese and international) celebrities they resemble the most. Kao Chekki scans the pictures and emails back the top three celebrity matches, including percentage match, a few moments later.

Kao Chekki works very well with Japanese faces (trustme on that one), but seems to have slight problems with foreigners. Michael and Erick really don’t resemble Gori-san and Kiyokiba-san, respectively, do they? Although, Gori-san is known as a cut-up.

The site’s overwhelming success spawned a number of copycats, including a rather bizarre service called Koe Chekki (Voice Check): Here, users call a phone number, leave a short message and are then emailed back to their cell phones with a list of celebrities with similar voices. Okay, maybe that one won’t translate overseas.

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blueprints: Events For JavaScript Components

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:05:42 -0700

Oracle OpenWorld 2008 - Content Catalog (cplan.com)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:05:23 -0700