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Photos: Happy developers in da house

Some 150 people gather in a Los Gatos, Calif., mansion for SuperHappyDevHouse, a 12-hour marathon of coding, hacking and socializing.Participants of the 19th SuperHappy DevHouse hackathon session descended on Tom Harrison''s family home last weekend in Los Gatos, Calif. Harrison far left opened his house up to some 150 tech...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, SECURITY, photograph, Amit Patel, SuperHappyDevHouse, Los Gatos, Facebook, San Jose State University, hacking, chief technical officer, Ohio State University, University of Washington, online v

Image galleries 2007-08-16

Expanding JavaScript Metaobject Protocol

JavaScript has been a much maligned programming language. Browser incompatibilities, poor implementations, and some superficial flaws in its design have led to numerous headaches for developers, and for a long time, it was seen as an evil to be avoided. All of this belies the fact that JavaScript is a...

Tags: JavaScript, San Jose State University, Programming, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

White papers 2007-05-14

San Jose State University's proposed Skype ban: clueless, paranoid and Luddite

San Jose State University's proposed Skype ban: clueless, paranoid and LudditeHere's a problem......the uplink to the Internet.Like most VoIP systems, Skype works best when latency is low and congestion is rare. This requires money and that source is directly or indirectly the students. That leaves me with a...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., San Jose State University

Discussion threads 2006-09-26

San Jose State University's proposed Skype ban: clueless, paranoid and Luddite

In what strikes me as both a paranoid and Luddite move, San Jose State University is seeking to block the use of Skype on campus.The issue first came to light in last Monday's Spartan Daily, when reporter Stefanie Chase wrote that Don Baker, interim associate vice president of university computing...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2006-09-23

Model Driven Development With Interactive Use Cases and UML Models

Large scale enterprise software systems are inherently complex and hard to maintain. To deal with this complexity, current mainstream software engineering practices aim at raising the level of abstraction to visual models described in OMG's UML modeling language. Current UML tools, however, produce static design diagrams for documentation which quickly...

Tags: Software, San Jose State University, Use Case, Model-Driven Development, UML, Research & Development, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Business Operations

White papers 2006-05-04

Using an On-Line Virtual Server to Simulate Network Administration

Participants in the rapidly changing computer networking arena face the significant challenge of keeping up with technologies that are often expensive to deploy, making it particularly difficult to gain hands-on experience. A survey of current job descriptions indicates that Microsoft systems continue to experience strong interest among employers. Learning alternatives...

Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Network Administration, Lab, Network, Computer Networking, Virtual Server, San Jose State University, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Ip storage, Networking, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2005-09-02

Interworking Between Wireless LAN and CDMA2000

CDMA2000 and WLAN have different capabilities in distance range, data rate, and in other features. Combining CDMA2000 and WLAN will enable these WAN and LAN technologies to complement each other to enhance the available wireless network services. Architecture of Interworking between CDMA2000 and Wireless LAN is presented in this paper....

Tags: San Jose State University, WLAN, LANs, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking

White papers 2003-11-01

San Jose State University Integrates Business Processes and Technology to Reduce Costs

San Jose State University SJSU is a major public university located in the center of San Jose and in the heart of Silicon Valley. SJSU wanted to integrate key business elements, including Human Resources HR, financial management, and student administration. The challenge was to develop stronger relationship between business strategy...

Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., San Jose State University, Financial Management, Human Capital, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management

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Is Google trading access for positive media coverage?

<update:> I received this message from Jeff Jarvis regarding this post: "I had no access to Google. I have no idea why the words "generous access" are in quotes. Those certainly are not my quotes. I chose to write my book from a distance without any...

Tags: Google Inc., Jarvis, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Times repeats Google spin on Yahoo ad deal

Randall Stross, a business prof at San Jose State University, offers a full-throated defense of the Google-Yahoo pact, in the NYT today. Stross is currently working on a book called Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know and has...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Auction, Stross, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Welcome Sam Diaz

I'm pleased to announce that ZDNet has added another contributor to Between the Lines. Sam Diaz is our new senior editor based in San Francisco. Sam has been a technology and business blogger, reporter and editor at the Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News and Fresno Bee...

Tags: San Francisco, Sam Diaz, Sam, Corporate Governance, Blogging, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-15

9th Circuit to decide whether to dismiss NSA spying case against AT&amp;T

In 2003, Room 641A of a large telecommunications building in downtown San Francisco was filled with powerful data-mining equipment for a "special job" by the National Security Agency, according to a former AT& T technician. It was fed by fiber-optic cables that siphoned copies of e-mails and other online traffic...

Tags: Internet, San Francisco, AT&T Corp., National Security, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-14

YouTube lights up with questions for candidates

Can the wacky, populist world of YouTube really influence the presidential debates? Soliciting 30-second video questions, CNN is pawing through more than 1,479 submissions - on subjects ranging from the serious to the absurd - to present at the Democratic and Republican debates,reports the San Jose Mercury News.Only four dozen...

Tags: Elections

Blog posts 2007-07-19

'Nerds' compete in robo-competition

Last weekend, San Jose CA State University hosted a robotic competition where high school engineering students from across the country competed in a tournament showcasing their hand-built robots maneuverability, speed and precision, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. "Im trying to calm down right now," said Matt Yu, 17....

Tags: Robots, robot

Blog posts 2007-03-16

CA crime lab backed up six months on DNA testing

It takes some six months to get DNA results in California because the crime labs are so backlogged, the San Jose Mercury News reports. ``This is an issue where people are remaining in custody who shouldnt be, and people who should be in custody are out on the...

Tags: Government technology, Law enforcement

Blog posts 2007-02-22

Skype still knows the way to San Jose - State U, that is

Skype Journal's Phil Wolff posts that after lots of brouhaha, San Jose State University's Computing and Telecommunications department SJSU UCAT have said they will not ban Skype.Apparently, a Monday meeting between SJSU officials and Skype-owner eBay's governmental relations team did the trick.Although Phil was not in on...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2006-09-27

Students, staff rebel at universities' ban on Skype

In a dispute over network security, students and staff at two California universities are challenging administrators' bans on Skype, the eBay-owned VoIP phone service, reports The Mercury News. San Jose State University has delayed an outright ban on Skype due to an outcry from its students and staff. Restrictions...

Tags: ban, Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2006-09-25

Did Apple's concession erase the fine line between bloggers and journalists?

After being at Mashup University and Mashup Camp last week, I'm just now catching up on all my news from last week and noticed that I missed the blockbuster story that Apple has abandoned its efforts to use subpoenas in hopes of unmasking whoever it was that leaked trade secrets...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc.

Blog posts 2006-07-17

A media monopoly in SF/Silicon Valley?

Thursday evening my buddy Tom Abate, senior business reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle invited me to join him at a Media Alliance event at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center (why no heterosexual?) in San Francisco: The Coming Media Monopoly: Concentration of Press Ownership and Its Effects. [I...

Tags: journalism

Blog posts 2006-06-05

Will phishing spoofees like eBay and banks get hip to RSS for the end run?

Will phishing spoofees like eBay and banks get hip to RSS for the end run?Now you get the ideaDavid- No, you are not nuts. You have the right idea, but are looking at the wrong tool.You and I had this conversation over a year ago when I discussed private email...

Tags: eBay Inc., Microsoft Corp., bank, RSS, RSS feed, e-mail, phishing

Discussion threads 2005-01-25