Bright Side Framework
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Bright Side Framework 2.2.2 (BS
Remoting)
Bright Side Framework 2.2.2 (BS
Remoting)
04/29/2004 04:50 AMA framework for building J2EE applications accessed by rich Swing
clients.
Bright Side Framework 1.0.1 (Smart Value
Object)
Bright Side Framework 1.0.1 (Smart Value
Object)
04/26/2004 07:30 AMA framework for building J2EE applications accessed by rich Swing
clients.
Bright Side Framework 2.0 (Remote
Iterator)
Bright Side Framework 2.0 (Remote
Iterator)
02/17/2004 03:42 PMA framework for building J2EE applications accessed by rich Swing
clients.
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
04/19/2005 09:06 AMThere is one good thing, in my opinion, in Apple being forced to
change the name of Rendezvous to Bonjour: a lot people know how to
pronounce Bonjour. :-)
The bright side of plummeting stock
The bright side of plummeting stock
04/16/2005 03:21 PMWell, it was fun while it lasted.
In case you somehow missed the bleeding headlines across the Mac
community, Apple, after posting some impressive second-quarter
numbers, saw its stock fall nearly 25 percent this week. When the bell
finally rang on Friday, AAPL had dipped into the $35 range, on a pace
to hit $29 by sometime next week.
It seems investors don’t think Apple is capable of producing “another
product of similar cultural and financial magnitude” anytime soon.
But we know better, don’t we? We, who suffered through the dark ages
and waited patiently for OS X. We, who bought three generations of
iMacs and knew Apple before it was a music company. We, who owned
iPods long before they appeared in 50 cent videos or on The Sopranos.
We, who cheered every minor 10.3.X update and watched each Macworld
San Francisco keynote a few too many times.
We, who can recite the “Think Different” poem from memory.
There’s a certain relief in the fact that the inevitable has finally
come, but I can’t help but wonder what, exactly, Wall Street was
looking for:
5.3 million iPods. Over 1 million Macs.70-percent increase in
revenue.Strongest education quarter in 5 years.
Perhaps it was Steve Jobs’ “Apple is firing on all cylinders” comment
— didn’t that seem a little too positive. Like he’s trying to cover
something up?
Even though I sensed it was coming, it’s hard to look at the numbers
and understand the result. But the bottom line is Apple should be
thankful. Now, they can go back to business as usual — surprising the
rest of the world as Mac users debate the specs of the next iBook
update and the validity of the latest anonymous snapshot or rumor
report without the scrutiny of investors and the prying eyes of
mainstream media.
Who needs all that attention anyway?
Besides, Apple’s best work has always come at its lowest points: the
iPod, the iMac(s), the iBook(s), even the Macintosh itself. Apple is
an underdog, and it seems that Wall Street has finally remembered (or,
in some cases, realized) that.
And between grumbles and curses, Steve Jobs knows Apple will again
shock the world. But through it all, we will stand firm; we, who scour
eBay for Newton prototypes and little Lego silhouettes.
We, the crazy ones, this misfits, the rebels.
We, who see genius.
Michael Simon is a freelance writer and editor, and paginator for The
Times in Pawtucket, R.I. He is the author of Failed Attempt, written
under the moniker of Morlium, which may be purchased for $9.99, either
through the iTunes Music Store or as a full-color paperback. He can
be reached for comment or inquiry by e-mail at morlium@mac.com.
Silicon Navigator Unveils Rocket
Framework -- First Native Framework for
the OpenAccess Database; Framework Co
Silicon Navigator Unveils Rocket
Framework -- First Native Framework for
the OpenAccess Database; Framework Co
04/06/2005 08:32 PMBusiness Wire UK Apr 7 2005 12:47AM GMT
Side-by-Side Console Round-Up: Xbox 360
vs Playstation 3 vs. Nintendo Revolution
Side-by-Side Console Round-Up: Xbox 360
vs Playstation 3 vs. Nintendo Revolution
06/17/2005 03:57 PMNothing like a good side by side comparison to separate the men
from the boys when it comes to the next gen gaming consoles. True, not
much is known at this time, but then again, for anyone seriously
mulling this over and hankering for a good solid spec mash-up, you’ve
come to the right place. In fact, we feel this is the longest, most
massively detailed side-by-side ever built on the topic. Here we
go……..
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Castor and Pollux walking naked, side by
side, past Kafka
Castor and Pollux walking naked, side by
side, past Kafka
01/05/2005 06:52 PM
Guy Davenport is dead. The
irrealist
a> w
riter,
tra
nslator of Archilochus, friend of modernists, and influential
teacher has joined
Hugh
Kenner in whatever lies beyond this mortal coil. More links at
today's
wood s lot, where I learned the sad news.
Kyocera's Passport KPC650 EV-DO PC Card
up to 35 Percent Faster in Side-by-Side,
Third-Party Testing against L
Kyocera's Passport KPC650 EV-DO PC Card
up to 35 Percent Faster in Side-by-Side,
Third-Party Testing against L
04/18/2005 10:04 AMBusiness Wire UK Apr 18 2005 2:03PM GMT
NADAguides.com Launches Side-by-Side
Vehicle Comparison Tool
NADAguides.com Launches Side-by-Side
Vehicle Comparison Tool
06/17/2005 04:35 PMNADAguides.com recently announced the launch of an online side-by-side
comparison tool, giving car buyers the ability to compare up to four
new or used cars simultaneously online. With this new service,
shoppers can compare new against new, new against used or used against
used for makes and models dating back to 1998.
Virtual Collaboration: If You Can't Work
Side-by-Side
Virtual Collaboration: If You Can't Work
Side-by-Side
03/19/2005 02:58 AM

The Idea: What do you do if you need or want to collaborate,
but
you can't do so in person? What purposes are best served by weblogs,
wikis, and other types of online collaboration tools, spaces and
media?
Collaboration entails finding
the right group of people (skills, personalities, knowledge,
work-styles, and chemistry), ensuring they share commitment to the
collaboration task at hand, and providing them with an environment,
tools, knowledge, training, process and facilitation to ensure they
work together effectively. This is challenging enough face-to-face in
real-time. It's doubly difficult virtually and asynchronously. But
there are examples of great music, literature, invention, scientific
discovery and problem-solving that have come from such handicapped
collaboration. How did they do it, and can you improve the likelihood
of brilliant virtual collaboration by using the right tools and
media?
Let's take a look at some of the alternatives:
Tool / Medium
|
Collaborative
Advantages
|
Collaborative
Disadvantages
|
Best Suited to Collaborative:
|
weblog
|
easy to post
& comment; content is subscribable/ publishable
|
participation
limited to comments
|
Conversations
|
wiki
|
anyone can
contribute content
|
harder to learn;
can be easily sabotaged; inelegant appearance
|
Projects /
Alliances
|
whiteboard
|
real-time; anyone
can contribute content |
content only
persists for duration of call; possible firewall issues
|
Conversations /
Projects
|
document-sharing
|
can be real time; anyone can
contribute content
|
possible firewall issues;
attention is focused on a document
| Conversations /
Projects
|
IM/skype/phone/ e-mail/
videoconferencing
|
real-time conversations;
audio/visual context; speed
|
content only persists for
duration of call | Conversations
|
mindmaps
|
shows and
documents consensus
|
can't capture
detail
|
Projects
|
discussion forums
|
threading of
comments; content is subscribable/ publishable |
limited
contextual knowledge of participants; can attract undisciplined
behaviours; threads can be hard to follow
|
Conversations
|
community of
practice/ interest spaces
|
organization;
defined membership; multiple collaborative tools
|
harder to learn;
formality can reduce intimacy and level of participation
|
Projects /
Alliances
|
personal e-mail
groups
|
flexible;
personal; easy to use
|
e-mail
overload/spam; threads get lost or hard to navigate and follow
|
Projects /
Alliances
|
social networking tools
|
large number of members; good
way to find collaborators
|
most actual collaboration is
done using other tools and media
| Finding
collaborators
|
in-person collaboration
|
easy; real-time;
context-rich; flexible
|
expensive;
time-consuming
|
All of the above
if time & cost permits
|
There are three levels of collaboration based on duration of
contact:
- Conversations: Where you're in contact just once, or a
few times, discussing a particular subject or group of
subjects.
- Projects: Where you're in contact as often as
necessary to complete a project.
- Alliances: Where you're in
contact in multiple
conversations and on multiple projects, working together for an
indefinite period of time.
A collaborative conversation
may be provoked by an interesting or important idea or an urgent
one-off need for information or assistance. Much of the time spent in
business is consumed in consulting with others, in canvassing for
ideas
or suggestions or comments, and in making decisions on what something
means or how to respond to it. These are generally quick,
collaborative
conversations. In large organizations these conversations are usually
peer-to-peer (where trust is stronger than up or down the hierarchy),
and as size increases further they tend to be more and more
intermediated (one middle-manager recently told me that 70% of his
e-mail and 50% of his telephone calls are of the "Who should I talk to
about X?" variety). In smaller organizations, these conversations are
more likely to draw on external networks, and to involve the use of
today's clunky social networking tools like LinkedIn and eCademy. I
have argued before that the next generation of social networking tools
should include 'people-finders' that streamline and automate the
process of finding the right person (inside or outside the
organization) to talk to, so that more time can be spent on actual
conversations with those people.
Once you've found the right person to converse with, if they're close
and inexpensive to talk to in
person,
that's likely what you'll do. But what if they aren't? How do you
quickly provide your Conversation Collaborators with the context they
need to converse with you effectively when you can't put a chart or a
piece of paper in front of them and brief them? Organizations have
found that if the person you want to converse with face-to-face is
more
than two minutes walk (or
elevator ride) away, the probability of you making the effort to
converse with them in person drops precipitously.
If you have a blog, an audience, and a little time, your blog can
serve
this need well. Ask a question on a popular blog and you'll probably
get an informed answer quite quickly (thank you readers!) Most
businesses, alas, have few established blogs and even less time.
Preferred conversation tools in business, when face-to-face is
impossible, are now IM and the telephone -- with IM trumping the phone
for its self-documentation, its suitability to multi-tasking, and
because it's easier to browse than voice-mail, and the phone trumping
IM if a lot of iteration is needed to provide context. White-boarding
and document-sharing applications, awkward as they are, can be helpful
additions to IM and telephone conversations if the participants are
savvy enough to use them properly (most aren't) and if documents and
graphics are needed to provide more context. E-mail is the
increasingly
unpopular fall-back.
Discussion forums are the ultimate tool of last resort for
conversations, because of the disadvantages listed above. In most of
the companies I am familiar with, they are only sporadically used and
quickly grow stale.
A variety of tools have been developed for more enduring project collaborations and alliance
collaborations. Because they tend to involve more participants than
conversations do, the logistics get tougher and the effectiveness of
these tools gets more challenging. And the threshold point for giving
up on the viability of in-person collaboration rises dramatically. I
think this is an absolutely critical point. It is the reason large
corporations, with the internal resources (people and money) to
sequester, have the capacity to collaborate more effectively than
small
corporations and loose, unfunded collaborative groups (though whether
they use that capacity to advantage is another question entirely).
Open
Source project teams and alliances have pioneered low-budget, virtual,
asynchronous collaboration, and are the role model to follow. But is
the reason for this perhaps that Open Source collaborations are
generally undertaken by exceptionally tech-savvy groups, very agile at
using and even inventing their own collaborative tools to get the job
done? They usually have a good GUI for the non-techie, but wade into
the material and collaboration technology behind a lot of these groups
and your head will start spinning. What about the other 95% of the
population? If I want to set up a virtual collaboration team to design
a model intentional community (with people I might end up spending the
rest of the my life with) or to invent a post-capitalist economy (a
large project if there ever was one), what tools and media should I
use?
Wikis are one place to start -- a bit nerdy and physically inelegant
but functional and not that hard to learn once you take the plunge.
They are, however, asynchronous tools, which is a significant barrier
to true collaboration.
There are some more robust collaborative 'spaces' for communities of
interest and communities of practice to adopt, but some of the best
'groupware' (like Groove and Exchange and eRooms) costs money and
requires considerable learning to use its different tools effectively.
These tools generally also require a coordinator to invest a lot of
time to setting up and managing the 'space'.
There are a variety of document-sharing technologies in the market,
which allow several people to see a document at once and to 'take
control' each in turn to change that document.
Ideally, using a combination of
- Skype (free global VoIP telephony),
- White-boarding (everyone online can see what anyone
posts to the white-board),
- Document-sharing and
- Mindmapping or some similar session annotation tool
(everyone can see what the group's 'scribe' has documented as the
findings, decisions and next actions from the collaboration)
would be a close approximation to an in-person collaborative session.
But that's a lot of
technology to juggle on your screen, to hog and interfere with your
bandwidth, and (if you opt for the more powerful tools in these
categories) can also require some outlay of money. My experience has
been (thanks in no small part to the valuable insights of online
communication wizard Robin Good and
Skypemaster Stu Henshall)
that video-conferencing (seeing the people you're talking with online)
is a "nice to have" not a "need to have", especially when bandwidth
limitations force you to choose which applications to have running at
any one time.
I am confident that, as bandwidth and processing power continue to
expand, we will soon see:
- A single, free, reliable, easy-to-use,
professional-looking
application that will provide what I've called Simple Virtual Presence
-- the four applications listed above plus the option of
videoconferencing (illustrated above), and
- A simple, free,
easy-to-use collaboration space where the results
of the online collaboration sessions, and a library of relevant
resources and links, are stored, with wiki-like capability so it can
be
maintained by any and all in the group.
Now that would be a real virtual collaboration
environment.
|
The Music Goes on Side A and the Flip
Side Is a DVD
The Music Goes on Side A and the Flip
Side Is a DVD
03/22/2005 04:52 PMNew York Times Mar 21 2005 6:56AM GMT
Silicon Navigator Unveils Rocket
Framework - First Native Framework for
the OpenAccess Database
Silicon Navigator Unveils Rocket
Framework - First Native Framework for
the OpenAccess Database
04/09/2005 07:57 AMFPGA Journal Apr 9 2005 11:25AM GMT
"side-by-side comparison"
"side-by-side comparison"
09/19/2004 02:22 AMXbox 360, Xbox Side-By-Side Picture
Xbox 360, Xbox Side-By-Side Picture
06/05/2005 11:36 PMThe Bright Stuff
The Bright Stuff
06/27/2004 12:53 PM
The Bright Stuff according to The Observer : "Here's our
new selection of 80 prodigiously talented young people - scientists,
DJs, novelists, architects, politicians - who we believe will shape
our lives in the early 21st century" Many familiar names,
including
Nick Denton,
Daniel
Brown and
Carl Churchill [
A to L,
M to Z].
A bright picture?
A bright picture?
09/17/2004 06:08 AMCNET Asia Sep 17 2004 10:59AM GMT
and those bright lights
and those bright lights
04/01/2005 02:42 PMJust after 9 Wednesday morning, we said goodbye to Felix The Bear. He
left us peacefully and quietly, surrounded by...
A bright picture
A bright picture
05/14/2004 06:15 AMUSA Today May 14 2004 10:43AM GMT
A bright idea
A bright idea
09/15/2004 07:38 AMUSA Today Sep 15 2004 12:07PM GMT
Burning Bright
Burning Bright
12/29/2003 08:30 AMweblog.burningbird.net/fires/life/burning_bright.htm#comment8521
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Information Bridge Framework Document:
Introducing the Microsoft Office
Information Bridge Framework
Information Bridge Framework Document:
Introducing the Microsoft Office
Information Bridge Framework
05/19/2004 11:41 PMLearn about the Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework from an
organizational perspective, including the rationale for exposing
line-of-business data to desktop systems and the benefits to the
information workers who rely on this data to perform their daily work.
In addition, review the Information Bridge architecture and the
advantages that this architecture offers for both deployment and
maintenance of solutions.
A Bright, Shining Bike
A Bright, Shining Bike
09/15/2004 12:15 AM
Zoom!
The upside of lax traffic laws and motor scooter travel in Viet Nam: a
good time isn't better had than a sunny day's travel from Hoi An to
the East Sea. If you visit here, take the time to go the beach. And
take a scooter as the traffic here seems much easier to negotiate than
anywhere else we've visited.
Scooters with manual transmission. Love 'em. The weather wa ...
Yule like this bright idea
Yule like this bright idea
12/08/2003 11:43 AMglobetechnology.com Dec 8 2003 11:13AM ET
Symantec's Bright Idea
Symantec's Bright Idea
05/20/2004 08:44 AMThe anti-virus specialist catches a cold IPO market -- and wins.
Bright outlook for the Sun king
Bright outlook for the Sun king
11/01/2003 09:46 PMScotsman Online Nov 1 2003 8:38PM ET
HP Remains No. 1; Apple, Not Sun, Bright
HP Remains No. 1; Apple, Not Sun, Bright
04/11/2005 08:05 AMApple was the bright spot in hardware thanks to the iPod. The
Cupertino company is now shipping more than four times as many iPods
as Macintosh computers. By Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News
CVS's Bright Picture
CVS's Bright Picture
07/07/2004 11:33 AMSend CVS your digital photos over the Net, pick them up the next day.
What will they think of next?
"Bright Young Things"
"Bright Young Things"
08/20/2004 08:53 AMStephen Fry takes a few liberties, but ultimately does Evelyn Waugh
justice with this deliciously dazzling adaptation of the gleefully
naughty "Vile Bodies."
Tiger burns bright
Tiger burns bright
06/05/2005 11:16 PMRating Mac OS X Tiger a 9.5/10 and Mac OS X Server Tiger a 9.3/10, Tom
Yager writes for InfoWorld, Unlike any OS X before it or any
competing desktop OS, Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) sends users
productivity skyrocketing before one manual is opened or one
application is purchased, thanks to stellar new search and workflow
tools. [Jun 03, 2005]
SSL to be one of 2004’s Bright Spots
SSL to be one of 2004’s Bright Spots
01/27/2004 03:30 AMMCI founder's bright idea
MCI founder's bright idea
09/13/2004 06:18 PMChicago Tribune Sep 13 2004 9:30PM GMT
MP3 market looks bright for Apple
MP3 market looks bright for Apple
04/13/2005 11:03 AMApple Computer will continue to dominate the MP3 player market, which
is projected to grow from an installed base of 16.2 million last year
to 56.1 million by 2010.
JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation, today
reported that U.S. shipments of MP3 players will grow 35% to 18.2
million in 2005 and maintain a compound annual growth rate of over 10%
through 2010, reaching an installed base of 56.1 million by then, up
from 16.2 million in 2004. MP3 players will reach critical mass this
year, fueling demand for digital music services and stores.
"Apple shows no signs of losing momentum," said Michael Gartenberg, VP
and Research Director at JupiterResearch. "The iPod is a consumer
phenomenon. Apple dominates this sector and will dominate portable MP3
player growth over the medium term," added Gartenberg. Mostly due to
the iPod's success, JupiterResearch has raised its near-term forecast,
but projects that flash-based player shipments will surpass those of
hard-drive models in 2007.
The forecast appears in the newly published report, "U.S. Portable
Music Device Forecast, 2005-2010."
Turn around, bright eyes?
Turn around, bright eyes?
03/17/2005 03:20 AM
The greatest cover ever. 10 years ago, a Norwegian band
called Hurra Torpedo performed a cover of the 80s classic "Total
Eclipse of the Heart". Thankfully,
Bill Bradford has shared with the
world this sublime rendition of Meatloaf's Finest Contribution to
Society.
[via ubermondo] Bright prospect for 3G in 2005
Bright prospect for 3G in 2005
03/17/2005 02:57 AMCHINAdaily Mar 16 2005 10:08PM GMT
Bright Future for Wéb-Tränslatiôns
Bright Future for Wéb-Tränslatiôns
07/14/2004 03:38 AMAn innovative Wakefield based localisation company receives
recognition for its innovative use of technology as it attends the
National Business Awards Regional final in Manchester. [PRWEB Jul 14,
2004]
Bright Times for Cree
Bright Times for Cree
07/28/2004 03:17 PMThe company delivers another quarter of solid LED sales growth.
Bright Lights Seen in Sky Over 5 States
Bright Lights Seen in Sky Over 5 States
07/10/2004 06:15 AMFree Internet Press Jul 10 2004 10:12AM GMT
Bright outlook for digital cameras
Bright outlook for digital cameras
08/02/2004 01:21 AMNews.bbc.co.uk - Sun Aug 1, 07:39 am GMT
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