July 2006 Archives

TechDocImages/50mA and Above How dangerous is electricity? Well, I may die laughing... (tags: offtopic)... Read More..

SimplePie A PHP API for parsing RSS and Atom syndication feeds. (tags: blogging)... Read More..

ABPMP San Francisco chapter meeting Originally uploaded by skemsley. Last night I attended the inaugural meeting of the San Francisco chapter of ABPMP, which included a presentation by Paul Harmon of BPTrends (pictured). Paul had some interesting comments about... Read More..

AirPower wiki Where to find power outlets in airports. Since it's a wiki, you can add the ones that you find, too. (tags: travel)... Read More..

Maybe I'm just ultra-sensitive to particularly stupid business processes that I run across because I spend so much of my time helping customers to fix their processes, but yesterday I ran afoul of a completely inane sales process at Circuit... Read More..

Bikely - Discover and share your favorite bicycle routes Google maps with user-submitted bike routes in various cities. (tags: mashups travel)... Read More..

Things will likely be slow around Column 2 this week: I'm headed for San Francisco tomorrow to just kick around the city and meet with a few business contacts, then attend the ABPMP San Francisco chapter inaugural meeting on Thursday... Read More..

Almost six months later, part 2 of this Gartner podcast arrives. Linda Cohen talks about the second four of the eight myths: the myth of sourcing independence;the myth of service autonomy;the myth of economies of scale;the myth of service management... Read More..

GopherNow! New mashup showing restaurants open now. Unfortunately, only covers San Francisco, Boston, New York, Atlanta and Austin so far. (tags: mashups) Top 10 Reasons to Embrace the Rich Internet Application Ryan Stewart of ZDNet on RIA (tags: web2.0)... Read More..

There's an Enterprise 2.0 session tonight at Rowers Pub in Toronto: Inspired by the success of everything Camp in Toronto comes one more event for your pleasure. Enterprise2.0 is about the business world applications of "Web 2.0" and "Social Media".... Read More..

I'm in a webinar (sponsored by Proforma) with BPTrends' Paul Harmon discussing their recent survey of business process trends. I expect to meet Paul face-to-face next week at the ABPMP chapter meeting in San Francisco, where he'll be speaking on... Read More..

A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about our startup meeting of the Toronto chapter of the ABPMP. I checked around for the other North American chapters and have now found myself invited to the inaugural meeting of the San... Read More..

Top Ten Reasons Web 2.0 Technology will Rock the Enterprise Just saw this post by Jason Kolb when tracking through some other posts. Excellent read on "Enterprise 2.0" (tags: web2.0 mashups)... Read More..

Catching up on some podcasts today while walking around Toronto, and listened to the June 30th RedMonk Radio that included a section on SOA and mashups. Favourite quotes: "Describing SOA as mashups is insulting to mashups" (Steve O'Grady), plus Coté's... Read More..

Last month, I tried out the Flock browser beta for a few days, but ended up abandoning it because their "cool" features weren't things that I could use, and it was just too much of a memory hog. This... Read More..

SIMILE | Timeline A DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. The next big thing for mashups? (tags: web2.0 mashups) Office 2.0 Database Ismael Ghalimi's list of everything Web 2.0 that you would need to run your office online.... Read More..

True to my expectations from our earlier interaction, I received an email today from Bluepring: As well as reminding me about the webinar today, it gave me a link to the in-flight process, which now showed that the reminder had... Read More..

Also from BPTrends, today's Email Advisor has an article on Alternative Process Analysis Models (direct link to PDF): There are a number of process analysis models that are designed to focus on more complex human interactions. One example is the... Read More..

As a follow-on to the BPTrends state of BPM survey published a couple of weeks ago, there's a webinar this Thursday (sponsored by Proforma) with Paul Harmon of BPTrends discussing the survey results.... Read More..

David Berlind is wrapping up the whole conference now, and we're all anxiously awaiting the announcement of the "best mashup" winners. He made a few comments on the wiki and how it will continue to evolve, especially over the... Read More..

Decision time. I have one wooden nickel to spend, and five mashups that I really like: ChunkLove, a gift registry finder that was created when the author's sister complained that she had a number of friends getting married and... Read More..

Platypus Firefox extension to modify a web page in your browser, WYSIWYG, and save those changes as a Greasemonkey script (tags: opensource web2.0 webdesign) Analysts see Java EE dying in an SOA world Enterprise Java is dead. Can someone... Read More..

"We can just hack that together" has been the rallying cry for mashups for a long time already, before the word "mashup" ever hit the scene, and Cameron Jones led us in the last breakout session of the conference... Read More..

Tom Ortega from eBay led a discussion on internal mashups (mashups within closed corporate walls). Like me, he sees mashups and SOA as two ends of the same spectrum, so there were a lot of things that they're doing internally... Read More..

I used the "law of two feet" (also known as "quietly slipping out the back door when you're bored") and am now in a session showing a mashup between Google Maps and Google Calendar. I'm probably the only geek... Read More..

Ten minutes into the email mashups session, and there's still an argument going on about whether this is about enterprise or consumer email (the description on the board said enterprise, which is why I'm here). Sigh. Maybe I'll check the... Read More..

I just received the latest copy of Roger Sessions' ObjectWatch newsletter (direct link to PDF), and there's a great article in it explaining SaaS in terms of making your own doppio macchiato instead of going to Starbucks, then later gives... Read More..

End of the first day of Mashup Camp 2, and boy, is my brain tired! It was a great day of new ideas, debating opinions, seeing new cool stuff, and meeting new and old friends. After some wrapup comments, we... Read More..

Like the profile data aggregation session, I didn't know what I'd get out of this session on client-side customization, but found it interesting nonetheless. We had a discussion on the different types of customization: Change the style sheet of a... Read More..

Sarah Harmer's done, and I'm on to President Alien. It really is getting late, I swear that this is my last post for the day. Or maybe my second last. Following the speed geeking, we had the breakout third session,... Read More..

We started the afternoon with speed geeking, where each mashup developer set up on a table, and the rest of us circulated around spending 5 minutes at each table for a quick demo. There were 21 tables but only 10... Read More..

Veneer was great, but short, so I'm on to Sarah Harmer's You Were Here. I'm starting to slow down -- it's was a long day of travel yesterday and a long day of idea generation today -- so may not... Read More..

As I mentioned in my previous post, I had to do all my blogging today offline because of the spotty wifi in the Computer History Museum, and I have to say that Windows Notepad makes a pretty sucky offline blogging... Read More..

David Berlind started Mashup Camp 2 a bit after 9am (which is great for us east coasters, but probably early for the locals) with the logistics and agenda framework for the day. As with Mashup Camp 1, and any other... Read More..

Commerce Starter Kit Open source e-commerce storefront for ASP.NET. (tags: payment)... Read More..

Photos from both Mashup Camps are tagged on Flickr as mashupcamp. There's already a number of new ones in there from the past two days of Mashup U (which I missed) and the party tonight. Check back for lots more... Read More..

Or is that Mashup Camp 2.0? I'm back at the delightfully quirky Hotel Avante again, meeting up with some people who I met back at the original Mashup Camp in February, and starting to meet a bunch of new people.... Read More..

Linksys WRT54G Revival Guide (tags: tools wifi) CentraSite Community Standards-based SOA forum and a multi-vendor services registry and repository. (tags: soa standards)... Read More..

I'm tuned into an ebizQ webinar on SOA standards, News Break: The First Standards-Based SOA Forum to Manage and Govern Your SOA. This link should be good for replay within a couple of hours after the webinar, or within a... Read More..

Tonight I found a new BPM blog in Dutch, BPM Scriptie, from the Netherlands. My Dutch being non-existant, I used Babelfish to try and get the gist of what he's writing (Google Translation doesn't do Dutch, unfortunately). All machine translations... Read More..

To start on my goal of moving my corporate website to a blogging platform, probably WordPress, I've converted the Column 2 archive on my corporate site (where I blogged before moving my blog over here to ebizQ in January) to... Read More..

I'm heading off to the first meeting of the newly-forming Association of Business Process Management Professionals Toronto chapter. I had posted a comment about ABPMP somewhere, and heard back from the organizers about starting a Toronto chapter, leading to today's... Read More..

I had a discussion last week with Mark Seamans, the general manager of Cardiff, about their V10 release of TeleForm and where it plays in the BPM market (you can find the full press release here). They're really a content... Read More..

The BPTrends survey, The State of Business Process Management, has just been published and is available free (registration required). Half of the 348 respondents to the survey are process practitioners or business analysts, with the remainder split between business, IT... Read More..

A happy 4th of July to all my American readers. For me, it's a day to catch up on my RSS feeds and email, since there's so little new content coming in today, and finish up a couple of small... Read More..

Enterprise Workflow Morning Session Comments on an academic conference about workflow, with pointers to the conference and its wiki. (tags: bpm) Speaking my mind Frank McCabe from Fujitsu labs, speaking in part about what's going on on the BPMN... Read More..

It's Canada's 139th birthday today; happy birthday to us! The best parade that I saw today was the one through Chinatown, where Canadian flags were carried alongside Chinese dragon puppets and tagu drummers. I was glad to be on foot;... Read More..