CES | Vinny Carpenter’s blog

Some of Tomorrow’s Best Gadgets – There's some pretty sweet gear at this year's CES: tablets galore, smart cameras, cool phones, audiophile pr0n. Woot! This little trade show might have a future! Check out some of our favorites.
Verizon iPhone to Debut With Unlimited Data Plan | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD – Sources close to Verizon tell me the carrier will offer the iPhone with an unlimited data plan (presumably the same $30 unlimited plan they offer for other smartphones)
Could this be the year we get to ditch the cable box? — Engadget – TiVo, Google and Microsoft's approach seems more sound because they each attempt to aggregate all the sources into a single universally searchable interface
How relevant will Analyst Firms like Gartner (with its MQ) and Forrester be in the next 10 years? – Quora – If I want to go spend $10 on a burrito in my neighborhood, I can find a restaurant with 585 Yelp reviews.
If I want to spend $10m on a piece of enterprise software, I spend $5K on a report written by a single analyst a year ago?

There has to be a better way
Do We Need a Yelp for the Enterprise? – Last month Gartner released its Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting. The report positioned AT&T, Rackspace, Savvis, Terremark and Verizon as the leaders
Green Beans: Getting Started with Spring in your Service Tier | SpringSource Team Blog – This post will introduce developers to the options available in the Spring framework for building a better service tier
10 Productivity Enhancing CSS and CSS3 Tools and Generators | CreativeFan – With the advent of CSS3, there are also now some CSS3 tools and also some CSS3 generators that can create gradients for you, as well as provide WYSIWYG visuals
New Gadgets at C.E.S. – Slide Show – NYTimes.com – Motorola, which has fought its way back into the cellphone market, is now taking on Apple’s iPad with the Xoom tablet. It uses the newest version of Google’s Android operating system, called Honeycomb, which is designed to make it easier to interact with a touch-screen tablet.
Effective Clustered Indexes – This article will present all the attributes that I believe make up an efficient clustered index key
Gartner raises IT spending forecast for 2011 | ZDNet – Gartner on Thursday said it raised its global IT spending forecast to $3.6 trillion in 2011, up 5.1 percent from 2010. Gartner’s previous outlook called for IT spending growth of 3.5 percent for 2011.
Daring Fireball: Uniformity vs. Individuality in Mac UI Design – The new Twitter for Mac is somewhat polarizing, what with its almost entirely custom UI

What I Saw at C.E.S. This Year, Part II – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com – As promised: here are a few goodies I saw at C.E.S. that are worth looking forward to
Java EE and Flex: A compelling combination, Part 1 – JavaWorld – Adobe Flex is becoming a popular choice for generating the client side of enterprise Java applications. In this first of two articles, Dustin Marx demonstrates how Flex can help you deliver highly interactive user interfaces that access your Java EE application#039;s enterprise logic.
Tim Sneath : The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets – If you’ve downloaded and installed Windows 7 Beta recently, I think you’ll enjoy this list of my thirty favorite secrets. Have fun!
Adobe LiveCycle takes to the cloud | InfoWorld | News | 2009-01-11 | By Paul Krill – LiveCycle ES is a server-based offering combining data capture, document output, process management, and content services. It draws on PDF, Adobe Reader, and Flash in the creation and distribution of documents. Applications can run in a disconnected mode via the reader.
Compass – Java Search Engine Framework – Compass is an open source project built on top of Lucene aiming at simplifying the integration of search into any Java application
JimNeath’s bort at master — GitHub – A base rails app featuring: RESTful Authentication, Will Paginate, Rspec amp;amp; Rspec-rails, Exception Notifier, Asset Packager, Cap Recipe (multi-stage). Put together by Fudge to remove the need for boring project setup.
Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles – O’Reilly Radar – That#039;s why a time like this, when the bubble is bursting, is a great time to see how important it is to think about the big picture, and what matters not just to us, but to building a sustainable economy in a sustainable world
ivan krsti? · code culture » How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing – A “short squeeze” sounds inconspicuous enough; you wouldn’t tell it by Bloomberg’s language, but Merckle’s Volkswagen bet lost out to one of the most masterful hacks of the financial system in history.
pastebud: copy and paste for the iPhone – pastebud enables round-trip copy and paste on your iPhone or iPod Touch, between the two applications that matter the most: Mail and Safari.
To ban or not to ban: Bisphenol-A in food is OK with FDA but not with some scientists – Columbia Missourian – Professor of biological sciences Frederick vom Saal uses this laboratory in LeFevre Hall on the MU campus to study BPA. For more than a decade, vom Saal has denounced BPA as a toxin and threat to public health.

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