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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
Our little running team "white knees" (last year it was "red knees" for Toronto Marathon) ran the 15th annual Run To The Rock Half Marathon yesterday September 12 2009. Together with about 600 runners, the course started from the nearby town of Cedarville northward toward the home of the ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Below is my list of cloud infrastructure providers and their data center locations (as of May 2009):
Cloud Infrasturcture Providers
US: Amazon EC2, RackSpace, GoGrid, SoftLayer, NewServers, ATT, Verizon, Sun Cloud;
EU: FlexiScale, ElasticHosts, Amazon EC2, ATT, Verizon;
Asia: ATT, Verizon(?), RackSpace(?), 21ViaNet' CloudEx(?);
Further:
RackSpace has data centers in US, Europe (London) and ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Background:
My name is Coach Wei. My goal in life is to be a good husband, father, son and friend while try to do some meaningful things. My professional career started at EMC Corporation whom I joined right after I graduated from MIT. In 2000, I founded Nexaweb with the goal of ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
The “Same Origin Policy” is at the core of browser’s security model. Under the “Same Origin Policy”, a web resource can only interact with another web resource if and only if both resources are from the same origin. However, “Cross site scripting” and “cookie” both brings security challenges in ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Here is a question that I have been pondering on and off for quite a while: Why do "cool kids" choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java?
I have to admit that I do not have an answer.
Why do I even care? Because I am a Java developer. ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Adobe sent out a press release this morning titled "Adobe to Open Source Flex ". Is that so? Dana Blankenhorn from ZDNet says this is A sign of desperation from Adobe ...Is that so?
After reading the press release a few times, the title "to Open Source Flex" seems to ...
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Introduction
Ajax is flying high and Ajax toolkits are certainly of big help. However, I do hear from people in the community complain about the size of various Ajax toolkits. A lot of Ajax toolkits require hundreds of kilobytes of download, sometime even over megabytes. Dylan Schiemann from Dojo ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
I am not as familiar with west coast VCs and have not run into Peter Rip, a general partner at Crosslink Capital. In general, looking at his blog EarlyStageVC, Peter is quite well informed and intelligent – which is why I was highly surprised to see a post from him ...
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
AjaxWorld is a great conference that hundrends of people gathered here at RooseVelt Hotel in NYC. You can see and hear the excitement around this new paradigm of computing. But once in while, there are things that are quite amusing.
Java vs. Microsoft WPF : It was great to catch ...
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Bob Buffone sent out this annoucement to Apache mailing list related to XAP:
The Apache XAP Team (XAP is an open source Ajax project at Apache Incubator) is pleased to announce the release of the 0.3.0 of its Declarative Ajax toolkit. Downloads of the project can be found at http://incubator.apache.org/xap/download.html
Project ...
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
This is an interesting article by Rich Seeley on 2/22/06:
URL: http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1244843,00.html
The number of mobile workers globally will soon be more than double the total U.S. population, according to predictions by another analyst firm, IDC Corp. IDC has predicted that in two years there will be 878 million mobile workers ...
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Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value
Web 2.0: The Paradigm Shifts
Web 2.0 refers to the 2nd generation web that is driven by two paradigm shifts from the first generation web:
A usage paradigm shift
A technology paradigm shift
Architecture of Participation: A Usage Paradigm Shift
The usage paradigm shift ...
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Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value
What Is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is the next evolution of the web that has a new usage paradigm as well as a new technology paradigm. The former is characterized by “architecture of participation” and the latter is characterized by “architecture ...
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
On October 31 2006, while we are all enjoying trick and treat on this Halloween day (a beautifully sunny day in Boston), there are some very nice treats in the web 2.0 space too:
JotSpot, a wiki-based collaboration software and service company, was acquired by Google on October 31 2006. The ...
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
Back four years ago (2002), a good friend who works at Microsoft told me confidentially that Microsoft is working on something called "XAML". "Very similar to Nexaweb - watch out", he said. To the contrary, I was actually thrilled. Regardless of what it means from a competitive perspective, XAML validates ...
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