Sybase at EclipseCon this week
Sybase is one of the silver sponsors for EclipseCon2008. Some of us will be at the sybase booth. Note that the exhibit hall pass is free
and you can sign up online. DTP and Sybase are going to be represented in various talks and tutorials. Please stop by if you've any
DTP/Sybase questions. You may also want to stay for one of the evenings as most of the evenings there is a party
sponsored by one of the companies. Stop by at the booth if you just want to find out which is the cool party ..)
Tutorials
- Implement Schema Editing Based on Delta DDL (Dafan Yang, Sybase)
- Data Applications in Eclipse: The Eclipse Data Tools Platform (Sheila Sholars, Loic Jullien, IBM; John Graham, Sybase)
- Enabling support for a new database or data source in Eclipse (Philippe Ombredanne, EasyEclipse/nexB)
Long Talks
- Introducing DTP Open Data Access Framework (Linda Chan, Actuate)
- Introducing the DTP SQL Query Builder (Brian Payton, IBM)
Short talks
- Creating Windows Mobile Database Applications with Eclipse (Jose Ramos, Sybase)
- Push for Usability of Data Tools Wizards (Brian Fitzpatrick, Sybase)
- DTP Help-Helper Plug-in (John Graham, Sybase)
TechWave 2008 Call for Papers... Now open
We are now accepting speaker proposals for the 60 and 90 sessions at the upcoming Sybase TechWave conference August 4 - 8th 2008.
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Kaazing - Real time messaging from a browser!!
I recently read about this company Kaazing. They were one of the participants in "DEMO". They claim to be solving one of the biggest deficiencies in Web 2.0 world, where this new breed of RIA cannot communicate in a bi-directional way in real time. If they attempt to do so like some of the companies like Meebo do, they will put tremendous pressure on network and resources.
http://gigaom.com/2008/01/28/demo-kaazing-turns-regular-browsers-into-real-time-apps/
From the very limited information available on the web, they seem to be translating java client code into javascript that can run inside the browser. I'm not very clear on how they accomplish the real time connectivity without the polling if the application running inside the browser cannot be listening on open socket connections. For them to solve the problem of polling frequently which they claim is issue with all the existing AJAX solutions, they'd have to start a listener within the browser and wait for the server to keep sending messages. I'd assume in a lot of cases, for security reasons, this may be disallowed. This may not be an issue for consumer applications which are the ones that they may target initially consider the deployment volumes of these kinds of applications.
At the end, it could be an application of messaging technologies with a different client consumer model but would probably be more relevant to this quickly multiplying number of AJAX applications.
Would be interesting to read more about their technology once they've more information up on their website.
More 2008 Thoughts...
Will 2008 be the year of Connecting Users in the Enterprise?
Personally I think 2008 will be a great year and this is why...
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Come see us at TechWave
We here in the WorkSpace team are excited about going to TechWave and opportunity to talk to our customers, about upcoming WorkSpace 2.0 release and get feedback. We welcome your suggestions for the future as well.
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Welcome to Development 2.0
"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." - Robert Frost
Welcome to Development 2.0.
When Sybase came to me and said "we would like you to blog on development, open source, and all manners of trends in the industry" I thought to myself "Excellent!" Followed immediately by "what am I thinking?" They want me to discuss the future of development? Well, absolutely. Here goes...
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@JavaOne
I was at JavaOne after attending to 2 fiull days of Sybase booth duties. Several of our customers came by and it was interesting to chat with them about WorkSpace, SQL Anywhere, and other things. We got some very positive feedback on WorkSpace. I will be getting in touch with those folks and follow-up on our discussions.
IT and the Secret of Life
Often times, engineers here at Sybase ask me “where’s the market going”. I wish I knew. If I did, I could trade stocks for a few minutes a day and forego all this fun. But I’m a better evangelist than stock picker, so I’ll stick to that, for now at least.
The question of where the market is going, of what our users need next, always reminds me of the comedy film “City Slickers” in which Curley, a scarey old cowboy (played by the recently-departed Jack Palance) asks Mitch (played by Billy Crystal) if he knows what the secret of life is.
Mitch sets up the zinger by answering “No, what?”. Curley, never wasting a word, holds up a single index finger and says, “One thing, just one thing…”. Mitch impatiently asks what the one thing is, to which Curley replies “That’s what you’ve got to figure out.”
Curley was right, you have to figure out the one thing.
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Hello? Hello? Welcome to Bill Jacobs' new blog in data integration...
Hi, my name is Bill Jacobs and I'm an Evangelist.
Welcome to Evangelist's Anonymous. Ooops, that's another day - today, I am manager of Data Integration Evangelism Team at Sybase and hope to engage you in some critical thinking, undoubtedly some critical responding, and perhaps some fun.
But who am I? Click through for a quick backgrounder...
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