Log on:
Powered by Elgg

Matthew Weaver :: Feeds

February 15, 2009

iMoan, uMoan, Doctors Moan for the iPhone

Blogger Radiologist "Dr Dalai", provides a good summary of native PAC's viewers available for the iPhone. However his real intent appears to be encouraging the industry to provide better support of the iPhone. it seems he is not alone in this request. Doctors have been flooding the internet with requests and the industry is responding. For example Epocrates has also recently released it's premium Epocrates Essenatials for iPhone the the delight of thousand of users.

read more


February 13, 2009

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.


via


Born Into Brothels: Calcuttas Red Light Kids

Born Into Brothels (Calcutta's Red Light Kids) is a 2004 American documentary film about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, Calcutta's red light district. The widely acclaimed film, written and directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, won a string of accolades including the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2004.


via


Journey of Recovery: Recovering From Mental Illness

In conjunction with Kean Digital Films, MHA/NC is pleased to introduce Journey of Recovery, an extraordinary documentary that takes a close look at mental illness. Produced by Bart Kean and Ted Thomas, two mental health consumers who reside in North Carolina, this film was created to make people aware that you can recover from a mental illness. Various and individualized paths have led numerous people to recovery and the hope of Bart and Ted is that this film will be used as a learning and teaching tool to inspire consumers to take the Journey of Recovery.


via


The Future Of Food

The Future of Food is a 2004 documentary film which makes an in-depth investigation into unlabelled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly made their way onto grocery stores in the United States for the past decade. It voices the opinions of farmers in disagreement with the food.


via


Ghosts Of Abu Ghraib

The familiar and disturbing pictures of torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison raise many troubling questions: How did torture become an accepted practice at Abu Ghraib? Did U.S. government policies make it possible? How much damage has the aftermath of Abu Ghraib had on America's credibility as a defender of freedom and human rights around the world?


via


Silenced: TWA 800 and the Subversion of Justice

This documentary proves that the U.S. government-including the FBI and DOJ-are totally corrupt and involved in serious felony crime and the outrageous cover-up of truth concerning the mysterious crash of TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996. As you will see, Flight 800 was actually destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Every allegation made in this film is backed up with facts-none more dramatic than those that come from the Federal government itself. You'll learn what the 736 official eyewitnesses actually saw; why aviators reject the CIA "cartoon" explanation; how the Feds criminally suppressed reporting; the critical witness drawings; the rigged NTSB hearings; the damning radar data and documentation; the altered physical evidence; undeniable proof of explosive residue proving a missile strike; the stinging report from the machinist union; and much more! http://www.1-free-dvd.com http://thesenatorhillary.blogspot.com


via


Brainiac: Science Abuse

It may be a science show but there are no bearded professors and no socks-with-sandals allowed. Brainiac - Science Abuse showcases some wilful and witty lab misbehaviour that's guaranteed to produce exciting, and possibly rather dangerous, results.


via


Can Dogs Smell Cancer?

Could the dog be an even better friend to man than we imagined? Two years in the making and boasting unique access to new scientific trials, this is the first ever in-depth account of dogs' ability to detect cancer in humans.


via


Weird Nature - Bizarre Breeding

An astonishing exploration of nature's strangest behaviour. From cartwheeling caterpillars to acrobatic skunks, nature reveals its wondrous, spectacular and undoudtedly bizarre side. On this episoide we explore the unusual ways animals mate.


via


Battle for Norway - 1940 Campaign

A rare historical documentary filmed by the German's detailing their quest for Norway. This 81 minute-long German documentary was directed by Martin Rikli and Dr. Werner Buhre by orders of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. Produced in 1940, the movie follows the Invasion of Denmark and Norway in the spring 1940. For unknown reasons, the film was never shown in Germany. It was considered lost in its entirety until it surfaced at an Internet auction in 2005.


via


Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain - The Land of Lost Content

The 1950s were a period of apparent calm, order and prosperity for Britain, but much of the populace was hungry for change, many began to distrust the government and protestors and satirists led people to question and mock their rulers. In 1961, the liaison between working-class Christine Keeler and Secretary of State for War John Profumo brought the closed world of the British establishment together with the cocky new Britain growing up around it.


via


February 12, 2009

Sun Launches JavaFX Mobile

Sun Microsystems announced the availability of the JavaFX Mobile platform, enabling the Java wireless ecosystem to create expressive solutions, which leverage the power and ubiquity of the Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME). The JavaFX Mobile platform delivers rich content and services across a range of mobile devices – from mass market feature phones to smart phones. Sun also announced that several leading handset manufacturers, service providers and ISVs are working with Sun to ship JavaFX Mobile handsets.

read more


Developing Rich Client Applications Using Swing - Part 2

In Part 1 of this article, I introduced rich client development, available architectures for developing rich client applications based on the Swing toolkit, and technologies that could be used to make development more productive. In this second part, I’ll compare the most popular IDEs and evaluate them with an eye to Swing development for rich client applications.

read more


JBuilder of All Trades

I run a small custom software development company in Bulgaria called dSoft-Bulgaria Ltd. Established in 2003, our company provides information system design and development. We have a wide range of specialists in different areas and we deploy systems on several different platforms including Windows, Linux, Solaris, .NET, and J2EE.

read more


The Application Server and SOA

Over the past few years the industry has lauded, and users have increasingly adopted, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to the development and deployment of their IT to achieve greater business agility and optimization of the associated development and operating costs. When discussing SOA, much of that discussion normally focuses on either the role and value of a “governance” process to manage the lifecycle of a SOA deployment and the use of a metadata repository to contain and control the artifacts associated with that governance process, or the central role that an enterprise service bus plays in the transformations between, and the routing of invocations, of services.

read more


Semantic Technology

All organizations, including multinational corporations and government agencies, face a common problem of enterprise data integration. Obviously, large-scale sources of the problem stem from mergers and acquisitions. When a large company is formed from other pieces, each brings with it its own data, in its own form. But the problem isn’t restricted to large conglomerates.

read more


Scripting Tools and Languages – Fast, Flexible, Sexy

In this article we'll look at using scripting tools and languages in business applications. I am a big proponent of using scripting languages. Personally I use JavaScript very often: Why? Because it's fast, flexible and sexy. Technically, when I refer to JavaScript I actually mean ECMAScript, but I'll call it JavaScript in this article as it sounds sexier than the official standard ECMAScript.

read more


Election Time

I’m writing this article on the day before the US presidential Election. As happens, we’re also in the middle of the JCP’s annual election cycle. Our elections consist of two phases. The first round, during which members vote for three ratified seats on each Executive Committee (EC), has recently been completed. The second round, for two elected seats on each EC, is about to begin. (The election process is described briefly at http://jcp.org/en/whatsnew/elections and in more detail in our Process Document.

read more


Catching the Test Bug

The software industry is often obsessed with progress be it in the form of a new language, wire protocol, specification update, or some other technology-driven feature. For me, software is a means to an end, and progress should be measured in features that allow code to be written more efficiently, with fewer errors, and with an increased fitness of purpose. To this end, the single thing that has most changed the way I view and approach Java is the JUnit framework.

read more


OpenSocial for Application Developers

OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites. Built from standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create applications with OpenSocial that access a social network’s friends and update feeds. By using a common API, developers can extend the reach of their applications more quickly, yielding more functionality for users.

read more


Pet Store with JavaFX 1.0.- Part I

The goal of this article is to demo a sample Pet Store application written in JavaFX 1.0. I work for a company called Farata Systems. Laura is our office manager, and she doesn’t know Java. Everyone else does. We work in the enterprise RIA space using Adobe Flex as a main development tool for creating all these Web pages connecting to the server side applications written in Java.

read more


China Unicom Hopes to Promote iPhone

At the last moment of foraying into China, Apple faces a dilemma to choose a partner for the promotion of its iPhone. The new choice is China Unicom, which has started negotiations with Apple over the introduction of iPhone into the country. If China Unicom gets the license to sell the 3G iPhone in China, the business will greatly help the company's promotion of WCDMA products. China Unicom is the country's sole WCDMA carrier.

read more


February 11, 2009

iPhone for the Enterprise: My Unofficial iPhone Survey Results

Recently I used a great new facility on LinkedIn and started a poll. For this poll I posted a discussion link that stated "What will be the widestly adopted Enterprise Mobile Device in 2009?" The iPhone, like the PC before it, is a compelling and popular device that is usurping the entrenched technology. The enterprise will change and adapt due to the device's popularity as it did for the PC decades ago. Whether or not the iPhone is the perfect enterprise device is less important than the fact that it is such a popular device outside of the enterprise. Other devices like Blackberry and Windows Mobile do not have the kind of popular support outside of work that compels companies to build infrastructures to support them in the enterprise.

read more


Mailtrust to Provide Contact Sync Capabilities with iPhone

Mailtrust, the email division of Rackspace Hosting, announced their backup and synchronization capabilities with the iPhone. Mailtrust has released its new Noteworthy sync for iPhone tool, enabling customers to have access to their critical contact information on the go. Since the iPhone’s launch in 2007, Mailtrust has provided both their Hosted Exchange and Noteworthy customers with email sync capabilities, with Hosted Exchange customers also having access to calendars, contacts, and tasks.

read more


<< Back Next >>