Moving on from BEA

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Dave Orchard
on May 6, 2008 10:17 PM | | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)
As of Friday, May 9th, I'm moving on from BEA Systems/Oracle.  It's been an amazing 7 years.  I've had a chance to be part of a great standards team from formation to transition.  I know that the BEA standards folks that are making...

XTech 2008

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Dave Orchard
on May 2, 2008 1:08 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I'm going back to Dublin next week to speak at XTech 2008.  I'll be speaking on versioning using XML Schema 1.0 and upcoming Schema 1.1 features.  Last year was the first time we ever went to Dublin, and now I'm...

Some Bisphenol-A(BPA) myths and facts

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Dave Orchard
on April 27, 2008 10:25 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
In all the hysteria about Bisphenol-A, it's been hard to find any real facts.  Simple things like: What's the real danger using our baby bottles? What are the effects of washing bottles?  In particular, if we already have been washing...

Amazon adds disk volumes to EC2

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Dave Orchard
on April 14, 2008 10:56 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
We can now use persistent local storage, aka volumes with EC2, rather than the S3 operations.  This could be used for a database for example.  Very simple unix commands to create, attach, mount, mkdir etc.  ...

First outright deception from our kids

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Dave Orchard
on April 7, 2008 10:49 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Yesterday our 28 month old daughter wanted to take a marker out of her "grampa"'s office, but we said she needed to keep the marker in the office.  We said she could take the paper with marks on it out,...

Guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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Dave Orchard
on April 7, 2008 10:05 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I did some research on how SEO works.  Herein are my findings.   Optimize pages All of the following are important: Keywords, Metadata, Content, inward links, header tags, alt tags, internal links, website structure, website theme, website code, use css,...

Penny to be eradicated

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Dave Orchard
on April 2, 2008 11:44 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Hopefully the private members bill passes and we'll finally get rid of the penny.  Next up, nickels.  ...

Flickr Find Friends feature: good start needs more work

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Dave Orchard
on April 2, 2008 7:27 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Flickr added a find friends feature that checks Yahoo, Google and MSN contacts.  A really interesting first start.   Very cool feature is that it looks like they use OAuth because I granted MSN only a 1 days access to flickr...

My Tweet cloud

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Dave Orchard
on April 1, 2008 8:00 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Using tweetcloud.com, I created my twitter cloud. Now it just needs real time scanning per user with REST URIs and caching so we don't have to do screen captures and then manual regeneration....

MapMyRun for SF embarcadero run

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Dave Orchard
on April 1, 2008 5:56 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I had a nice run from the W to Fisherman's wharf via the Embarcadero last night after dinner. But how far did I go? I found MapMyRun.com a few days ago and I tried it out for the run I...
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Elsewhere, Dave:

  • tweeted, "awake before 5 for the 5th morning in a row, not because of kids either. I think I'll go hike a mountain this morning."
  • tweeted, "Congrats @factoryjoe! A great home for Diso."
  • tweeted, "Clay Shirky doing a big grimace during Web20 keynote - http://snaptweet.com/3c970"
  • posted Clay Shirky doing a big grimace during Web20 keynote
  • tweeted, "working away. TAG work on versioning, lots of other stuff. Wierd to do work wihout getting paid."
  • tweeted, "Going riding at whistler. Perfect way to start unemployment."
  • tweeted, "Up way too early. Jetlag will not be vanquished quickly apparently. Working through administriva."
  • tweeted, "Back home, just finished reading stories. Trying to stay up a little longer"
  • tweeted, "Transfer W3C AC rep, sending affiliation changes, leaving working groups, filing expense reports, saying goodbye, ..."
  • tweeted, "Leaving #Xtech with @daveman692, should be good cab ride."
  • tweeted, "The joys of waking up modestly early because of jetlag: pre-#xtech gym workout. @adactio, this one's for you!"
  • tweeted, "Time for sleep after pubbing with @adactio and more at O'donoghues after #xtech"
  • tweeted, "Looks like my run at #xtech was 8 miles http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/ireland/dublin/484097416943. Now off to the pub!"
  • tweeted, "Just finished a 6 2/3 mile run in Dublin http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/ireland/dublin/707966800003. Now back to sessions"
  • tweeted, "Waking up to another beautiful day in Dublin and some more Open talks at #Xtech"
  • tweeted, "#xtech finished Versioning XML with XML schema talk, now I'm tired."
  • tweeted, "finished my Versioning XML with XML Schema talk, learning about Schema 1.1 assertions from Michael Kay."
  • tweeted, "@jtauber, @dckc, etc. thanks for asking about what's next.. The only plan is to take some time to figure things out."
  • tweeted, "Moving on from BEA: As of Friday, May 9th, I'm moving on from BEA Systems/Oracle.  It's been.. http://tinyurl.com/6332x2"
  • tweeted, "(almost) official, friday is my last day at BEA/Oracle."

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