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"If all people were great, there would be no great people."
“If all people were great, there would be no great people.”
- ewH
October in north jersey…dreaming of a white halloween?
October in north jersey…dreaming of a white halloween?
NIN encore time!
NIN encore time!
Nine inch nails - best concert I have been to…ever
Nine inch nails - best concert I have been to…ever
I’m not sure this is revolutionary, but its pretty darn...
I’m not sure this is revolutionary, but its pretty darn cool. I think it would be better if I could stand inside the sphere and play Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament in a fully submersed battle scene. :)
BigDog - Came across this video from a post from Shai Agassi. ...
BigDog - Came across this video from a post from Shai Agassi. The balance and agility of this thing is amazing. For a second, I caught myself actually feeling sorry for it when the dude was trying to kick it over and when it was slipping on the ice.
The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog’s legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next. BigDog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall and 75 kg weight.
Passpack Online Password Manager
Interesting way to keep all your passwords handy. Not sure I am ready to store all my passwords on someone else's server though. Maybe I will give this one a little while before taking the plunge.
My apologies for the RSS spam this weekend. Tip of the day:...
My apologies for the RSS spam this weekend.
Tip of the day: Don’t set Tumblr to import additional content from a feed that is a piped aggregate feed including the original Tumblr blog feed. This causes an infinite fail loop! :)
The dogs don’t seemed to be impressed while we watch UFC...
The dogs don’t seemed to be impressed while we watch UFC 86. Go Team Renzo Gracie!
I like the simplicity of Tumblr and I am am seriously thinking...
I like the simplicity of Tumblr and I am am seriously thinking of switching my blog over.
The Illusion of Completeness - embrace the "sketchy" prototype
As Joel Spolsky explains in his post The Iceberg Secret, Revealed, the user interface usually represents less than 10% of the actual functionality of the entire application.
You know how an iceberg is 90% underwater? Well, most software is like that too — there's a pretty user interface that takes about 10% of the work, and read more..
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Heroku
develop and deploy rails apps easily online
develop and deploy web apps online
The Bungee Connect application platform assembles all the pieces necessary to develop and deliver amazing web applications: Ajax for client-side interactivity, a full language for application logic, SOAP/REST connectivity, automated server-side state mana
Star Wars: Force Unleashed - this isn't your daddy's Atari
Since developing Majority Desk, I have really been appreciative, intrigued, and amazed by the potential of using simulated physics as the engine for allowing objects to interact in games and other software. For Majority Desk, we used the open source Open Dynamics Engine, and it gave us all we needed and more to simulate read more..
Science Debate 2008
My top issue in the upcoming U.S. presidential election is our focus on science and technology. Currently, we have an increasing attitude of entitlement, complacency, and whininess about our jobs being outsourced and our dollar value declining. Instead, we need to increase motivation and resources to be technology innovators and world leaders in read more..
Recently, I came across some videos of a very smart dude name Johnny Chung Lee that has been doing some interesting innovations with one of my favorite toys, the Wiimote. Johnny Lee is a Ph. D. student at Carnegie Mellon, and his innovations are both simple and brilliant. He is doing work similar to Majority read more..
Enterprise Tyranny Of The Or
There is an interesting battle going on between the Enterprise Irregulars vs. Robert Scoble and Nick Carr about the lack of sexiness in enterprise software. In Scoble's original post, he asks if anyone knows how to make business software sexy. Fellow Irregular, Michael Krigsman, responded in his blog:
Enterprise software is all about helping read more..
SDN Rockers and Guitar Hero III
If you play Guitar Hero, join the SDN Rockers tour group online
Developer's Journey through the SDN Subscription Program - Ch.1 Getting the Goods
Follow a code monkey in a journey through the SDN subscription program
majority desk - get your wiihands on!
At this year's demo jam, Dan McWeeney and I showed off a crazy little project called Majority Desk. The crowd was pumped and demo jam was a blast.
RIA with Flex Hands on Session at TechEd
If you are here at Community Day in Vegas, come join us for an RIA with Flex hands on session
Starship Enterprisey lifts off with Thomas Jung and ABAP
Starship Enterprisey podcast with Thomas Jung, "I Love ABAP"
RedmonkTV Interview on the Imagineering Fellowship
Video interview that Dan and I did with Cote for RedmonkTV. It was shot during SAP Sapphire in Atlanta to discuss the SAP/CP Imagineering fellowship program.
Business Intelligence needs to be more Intelligent
Potential to tie enterprise search, widgets, and harmony into BI to create a social platform for business users to collaborate.
Earn SDN Points by Helping with SAPlink
Find out how you can now earn SDN points and prizes by helping out with the SAPlink community project.
SAP & Colgate - All Aboard the Cluetrain
"A powerful global conversation has begun.... the result will be a new kind of conversation. And it will be the most exciting conversation business has ever engaged in." SAP & Colgate all aboard the cluetrain...full steam ahead.
Where Does Enterprise 2.0 fit in an SAP world?
What is Enterprise 2.0 and where does it fit in our SAP world?
Toolbar for SDN geeks
Download this free, handy SDN geek toolbar for your favorite browser.
Wii Goes Enterprise
Playing around on a Friday evening after work, a couple of coworkers and I decided to do a little experiment integrating SAP BI, Ruby on Rails, and a Wii remote. Is there any room in the enterprise for Wii? Add a little fun to your day and check it out.
Simplify your BW enhancements for global reporting variables
This handy BW variable redesign engine improves the old process of defining BW variables for customer exits in SAP. It is now available as a community project being distributed via SAPlink.
2006 TechEd Las Vegas Video Blog
"Ed Herrmann and Dan McWeeney, winners of both the Las Vegas and Amsterdam 2006 Demo Jams stole, err... I mean borrowed a camera from the SDN Crew and went on a adventure to capture some of the great moments taking place during the 2006 Las Vegas TechEd" Description by Craig Cmehil
I heart my cubicle
OK, most of us really don't "love" our cubicles, but here are some photos of where we work and our SDN wall of fame. Now that we have met some of our fellow SDN-crazies, we would like to "put a place with the face" and see where you work. Maybe we can get the SDN crew to award some extra points for the most creative work areas. Of course, you have to show off your SDN spirit to qualify. :)
