Thursday, August 08, 2002

Making Money Warren's Way  [Business Week: Daily Briefing] 11:14:18 PM

UI Patterns for the web?. UI Patterns. UI Patterns and Techniques: Introduction. A set of UI design patterns that shows promise. [ideas] Looks like a good wrap-up of web ui design patterns. I'll probably go back there and have another go at it when I'm not so busy. ;) (Like, when is that exactly? I have no idea.) [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog] Wow - really good set of UI patterns, but not very web based unfortunately. I would REALLY love to see (and contribute!) to something like this for web UIs. All the standard tricks like master-detail forms, sortable tables, tab interfaces, drill down navigation, form layout etc - but for HTML. [rebelutionary] 11:01:14 PM

Microsoft, IBM and BEA Deliver Specifications for Business Transactions . In a late press release tonight, Microsoft, IBM and BEA "announced the publication of specifications to collectively describe how to reliably define, create and connect multiple business processes in a Web services environment, and help organizations coordinate business processes and transactions within the enterprise and with partners and customers across heterogeneous systems and within the enterprise. Announced were the new specifications to address transacted communications of Web services (WS-Coordination, WS-Transaction) and a new language to describe business processes (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, or BPEL4WS)." [Scott Loftesness] 10:51:50 PM

thinking in java 3 Bruce Eckel's posted what amounts to a beta of the third edition of Thinking in Java.The biggest change in the third edition is a "DiscoveringProblems" chapter that "teaches you about tools that you can use to findand prevent problems during your development process. These includeunit testing (JUnit, and a framework developed just for testing theexamples in the book); Ant, for automatic building; debuggers,profilers, and even Doclets." Great! TIJ is still my favourite Java basics book. [via Cafe Au Lait] [rebelutionary] 10:37:56 PM

Intel Chairman Andrew Grove said the company won't expense stock options, but will provide a new level of detail about its options program in its f... [Wall Street Journal] 6:13:28 AM

early indications the double dip has begun Best Buy: Lowers outlook. Consumer spending has widely been credited with keeping the depth of the current recession relatively mild. This morning Best Buy, a major retailer of consumer electronics, announced that it is not going to meet Wall St. expectations for the current quarter -- attributing the miss to new weakness in consumer spending. In revising its outlook, the Company cited declines in consumer confidence resulting in flat comparable store sales in the past four weeks, which reflected general softening across most product categories. "Our June results were in line with our expectations, but comparable store sales softened significantly in July, finishing the month essentially flat," said Brad Anderson, vice chairman and CEO of Best Buy Co., Inc. "In light of the environment, we are closely monitoring sales and inventories, and identifying ways to pare expenses in the second half." Unfortunately, Best Buy isn't alone. Other retailers reporting this morning include Neiman-Marcus (July same store sales down 2.7%), JC Penney (down 2.2%), and Talbots (down 19%). [Scott Loftesness] 6:07:22 AM