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The Longboat Key Club and Resort, 301 Gulf of Mexico Drive, will hold its third annual Junior Tennis Camp for children ages 8 to 16 who want to improve their tennis skills.
Campers can choose half-day sessions from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. or 1 to 3:30 p.m. or full-day sessions from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Morning sessions will consist of a warm-up, lessons on stroke production and mechanics, a live-ball drill, ball-machine practice and cardio tennis. Afternoon sessions will offer supervised match play, conditioning, movement-and-agility training and a "Davis Cup" team tennis competition.
The Key Club will also hold its sports camp for children ages 6 to 12 with a "peewee" half-day session available for children ages 4 and 5. Half-day sessions are from 9 a.m. to noon, and full-day sessions are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The camp includes tennis, golf and swimming, along with a variety sport each day, such as baseball or soccer.
Both camps have eight five-day sessions available running Monday, June 8 through Friday, Aug. 7, with a break week from Monday, July 6 through Friday, July 10.
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Cedars Tennis Resort, 645 Cedars St., will offer a morning summer tennis camp and said more information would be available by the end of the week. For more information, call 383-6426 and visit www.YourObserver.com this week for an update.
Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, has summer programs beginning Monday, June 8.
Children ages 2 to 5 can participate in "Mommy & Me at Mote: Sea Shapes/ I Spy," in which campers learn about ocean life through crafts, games, songs, stories and more. The three-day camps feature an animal feeding, live-animal interactions and a chance to wade through Sarasota Bay.
An adult must accompany each camper.
Students entering grades one through four can attend "Aquakids: One Big Home" program, in which they will explore ocean habitats. The five-day camp offers a boat trip around Sarasota Bay, snorkeling in coastal waters and visits to Mote Aquarium.
Students entering grades five through eight can participate in the new "SeaSleuths: Bay Bonanza" program, in which they will be on the water every day investigating the mysteries of Sarasota Bay. They will kayak in mangroves, snorkel above seagrass and fish in the bay.
Another program for students entering grades five through eight is the "Digi-Know How" program, in which campers will create digital media projects using computer applications and equipment.
Students entering seventh or eighth grades can head to Mote's Tropical Research Laboratory on Summerland Key for the five-day Discovering the Florida Keys trip.
And for students entering grades nine through 12, Mote offers scuba-diving camp, in which participants can earn their PADI Open Water Scuba Certification, and "Marine Ecology of the Florida Keys," in which students will travel to the Mote Laboratory on Summerland Key for five days of marine exploration.
For information, including a full list of dates, visit www.mote.org/summerprograms.
Sarasota Youth Sailing Program will hold summer camps at Sarasota Sailing Squadron, 1717 Ken Thompson Parkway.
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Every year I head for the Greenbrae shopping center parking lot to watch the fireworks. Usually everyone is milling around waiting for the spectacular while playing with their children or just sitting on the hood of their cars. This year was no different, except for the man parked next to me. He recognized me, got out of his car with folding-chair in hand and came over to talk. He was opinionated, angry with our politics, hated war and changed his political party affiliation. He talked for almost half an hour before I could get a word in edgewise.
He has always been a staunch republican. Voting for both Bushs, contributing to the party and volunteering for door-to-door campaigning for republican candidates. The war in Iraq changed all of that. Now, thanks to G.W. Bush, he supports the independent political philosophy. Still, to this day, his eyes fill with tears when he thinks of his only child killed in our war against Iraq. He doesn't blame the Muslims, Saddam Hussein or the Iraqi people. He blames G.W. Bush and the republican party.
He had a great relationship with his son. As outdoorsmen, fishermen, hunters, hikers and sports enthusiasts, he and his son had become best friends. But at the age of 24, adventure and "duty to country" called. His wife blamed him, claiming he encouraged their son to join. A claim he denies.
As a marksman, his son had the privilege of joining the sniper team. Snipers operate alone, keep close visual contact with the enemy and shoot the enemy from a distant concealed position. They operate independently without backup and act as lookouts. They are not treated mercifully if captured. Rationale being, ordinary soldiers can see and shoot at each other at equal distances. While shooting from the backyard of a residential building, his son was caught and killed. Six months later, his wife divorced him.
As the fireworks started, their bombardment in the symbolic hue of a red glare, he returned to his car and thanked me for listening to his anger, frustration, disappointment and dislike aimed at the Republican Party. I told him he was preaching to the choir. He said, "I know."
Independence Day should remind republicans that our individual freedom allows us to marry anyone we choose, have children without government interference and determine our own individual health care needs. They seem to think their collective freedom allows them to purchase guns without sufficient background checks, subject children to mass murderers with assault weapons, amend the Constitution with their religious beliefs and determine the health care needs of women.
Maybe, our freedom liberty and independence would be better preserved if we had more sanitized republicans around.
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My daughter is going to be 1 next week. She has been cruising for months, and is really steady when I walk beside her holding her hand. She took a few steps on her own last week, but hasn't taken any since (and doesn't really seem interested anymore). Are there things I should be doing to encourage her walking, or will she just all of a sudden take off? I know all kids develop at their own pace, but she did everything else so early I guess I expected her to walk early as well. Any suggestions would be appreciated :)
Have you considered just letting her take her time and doing it when she's ready? You could just relax and enjoy this stage knowing that soon enough it will be gone and you won't be able to recapture it. Just keep playing with her, reading to her and interacting with her. She'll figure out walking in her own time.
I very much agree with APmomma about not being stressed over her walking/not walking. It sounds like you are very attentive and interact with her a lot, so no doubt-she is just talking her time.
Your little one will walk before you know it. Until then, just have fun practicing with her and encouraging her. Once she does begin to walk....it'll be a whole new game! Until then enjoy her first birthday! Congrats!
Sgmitch- Your little girl will walk when you least expect it. :-) There really isn't anything you ought to be doing other than playing with her and loving on her. Sometimes babies have a lot of fun trying to walk between Mommy and Daddy when they are sitting on the floor. My son loved to do that, mostly because we were down on his level playing with him! I'd just sit back and let your little girl figure out when she is ready and get the house child-proofed while you can! :-)
I agree with the rest of the comments... sometimes we get caught up in setting deadlines for our kids. Certainly, we need to be aware of any possible developmental delays and communicate them to the baby's pediatrician. But in this case, your baby seems to be doing just fine, so be patient and savor this time in her life!
Thanks for the advice guys. I promise I'm not trying to rush her anything, and that I do always enjoy the stage she's in :). I just want to make sure I'm doing everything I should for her...she's our first, so I don't always know what that is. I'm not worried about her development, I just want to be the best mommy I can :). Thanks again for your advice!
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On Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. in the Grundy County Courthouse, the Grundy County Republican Party will elect its new leadership for the upcoming 2013-2014 term. According to the Tennessee Republican Party bylaws, this "reorganization" occurs every two years between January 1 and March 31 of each odd numbered year. Because we are a county of under 100,000 people, we had the option of having either a Precinct Delegated Convention or a Mass Convention and Grundy County Republicans chose the latter. All bona fide Grundy County Republicans, as defined in the TNGOP bylaws, may vote in this election. If you have a question on your "bona fide" status, do not hesitate to contact me. email@example.com or find me on Facebook.
As my final term comes to an end, I would like to review some of our highlights. In 2010, we successfully elected a Republican U.S. Congressman, Dr. Scott Desjarlais, and the first Republican in that office since Zach Wamp. In 2012, we elected our first Republican State Senator, Janice Bowling, to represent us in a super-majority Republican state legislature and lastly, and most importantly in my world, we elected our first Republican to our county commission, Mr. Wayne Harris.
I look forward to the next Grundy Republican leadership team continuing the trend in 2014 and onward. It is a healthy and good thing in our community to discuss issues and elect people who stand by their record. It is our job as citizens to hold them accountable. We have a lot of decisions and action plans to put in place, our leadership needs to know we expect that to happen in a fiscally, constitutionally and ethically responsible way. Grundy County must come first in all things and our kids and their future should be the guiding light for all our decisions.
No successful leader does it alone. I would like to thank all the people whose convictions and strength of spirit made each success a reality. My first thank you goes to my leadership team. It has been such a great honor and great fun working with y'all, I am proud to call you friend and partner in this crazy mission we are on. Y'all rock!
I would like to thank all the past leaders and people who walked before us carrying this conservative torch, especially my father, Ted Smith, who taught me the value of knowledge and a deep appreciation for the Constitution. I would like to thank Donna Basham, Grundy County Administer of Elections, for setting such an excellent example in our state. They have noticed. You make us proud!
I would like to thank our Republican-majority Grundy Election Commissioners, Chairman Glenn King, Alf Adams and Mary Margaret Willems. Your wisdom and sense of fairness and correctness has been invaluable to our election process. I would like to thank Julia Pirtle for ALL her years of committed service on our behalf. You are such a rock in this raging sea of life. Without a doubt, I would like to thank the citizens of Grundy County who have finally embraced the reality of a new era of conservative leadership. There is no other place in this entire world I would rather be than right here with you.
Lastly, I would especially like to thank those who fearlessly jump into the political fray to make a difference. Win or lose, actions speak louder than words, and you walk the talk. You are all my heroes.
And finally, I would like to thank President Barack Obama and the Liberal Left. You have made us all finally realize that what we hold dear could vanish with the sweep of a pen. I am confident that In Grundy County and in Tennessee, that won't happen on our watch. You can take that to the bank and cash it.
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Years ago when I first learned about declarative programming, it seemed like magic. Separate your logic from your control flow, so that you can simply describe the behavior you want, and your software will magically know how to render it! But of course, there's nothing magic about declarative languages like SQL or HTML, to name two of the most familiar. With those languages, your database engine or browser, respectively, takes your declarative code and turns it into instructions a computer can understand.
The power of declarative programming isn't that we magically don't have to code programmatically. Rather, the programmatic code we write is generalized. If you're coding a SQL processor, the same tool can process any valid SQL. Similarly, a single browser can render any valid HTML. To change a Web page, change the HTML – but the code inside the browser remains the same.
Hypermedia applications – the type of applications the REST architectural style is intended for – are also supposed to be built declaratively. Take as an example the simplest of hypermedia applications: a static Web site. The application consists of a set of representations conforming to standard Internet Media Types (HTML files, JPEG images, and the like), interconnected via hyperlinks. The user navigates the application by following the hyperlinks, and the current location of the user in the application – in other words, the application state – is managed by considering the Web site to be a straightforward finite state machine, where the pages are the allowed states and the hyperlinks specify the allowed transitions. In other words, hypermedia are the engine of application state – the RESTful architectural constraint we call HATEOAS.
The programmatic code that makes this hypermedia magic work lies in the underlying HTTP infrastructure that knows how to resolve URIs, resources that know how to process requests via a uniform interface, and clients that know how to render representations that conform to standard Internet Media Types. These three capabilities (URI resolution, request processing, and Media Type rendering) are generalized – it doesn't matter what URI, request, or representation you care to deal with as long as they conform to the constraints of the architecture.
So far, everything's hunky dorey, as long as the HATEOAS constraint is handled manually – that is, a person changes the state of their application by clicking hyperlinks. Where so many developers run into trouble with HATEOAS, and by extension all of REST, is when they try to automate HATEOAs.
It's no wonder so many coders want to automate HATEOAS. Automating HATEOAS, after all, is how to get the full power out of REST. Free yourself from a simple browser as the client, and instead code an arbitrary piece of software to serve as the RESTful client (which may not even have a user interface) – a piece of software that knows how to follow hyperlinks to gather all the metadata it needs to understand how to behave.
Easier said than done, because standard Internet Media Types are generally insufficient to instruct our arbitrary clients how to behave. We typically want to exchange arbitrary data, where the Media Type doesn't tell the client enough about how to process it. REST's answer? Custom Media Types, which take a standard Media Type like XML or JSON and adds a schema or other metadata specific to the situation. Now the developer must code the client to understand those Custom Media Types – as well as how to make the appropriate requests for representations that conform to them. Finally, developers find themselves coding the resources specifically to deliver those representations.
Let's review. Automating HATEOAS means custom-coding resources that return custom-formatted representations to custom-coded clients. Hopefully you see what's wrong with this picture! We've given up entirely on the benefits of declarative programming, instead falling into the trap of building tightly coupled, inflexible, spaghetti code. There's got to be a better way.
The correct approach to automating HATEOAS is to maintain the generalization of the components of the architecture, just as we did with manual HATEOAS. We must generalize the code in our resources. We must generalize the Media Type processing code. And we must generalize the internal workings of our RESTful client. We don't want our client to know ahead of time what behavior it is supposed to exhibit. Instead, all of its behavior should be learned by referencing hyperlinks. Furthermore, we shouldn't have to teach our client ahead of time how to deal with the representations it receives. It must be smart enough to follow hyperlinks to gather whatever information it needs to process any representation.
I'm not saying it's easy. But once you've written such a client, it will serve to implement any application you care to specify declaratively. Drop me a line if you'd like to see an example.
There is some good news for Visual Studio enthusiasts looking to develop web applications using Node.js. The Visual Studio team (with help from the community contributors) recently released the support for Node.js in Visual Studio 2013. While this is still in beta, and you may face issues while developing apps, it is definitely worthwhile to explore the features now and provide feedback to the team.
You can down the Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS) from CodePlex here. Follow the steps in the installation wizard to setup NTVS.
Once you have successfully installed the tools, you will see a bunch of templates showing up in the New Project Dialog under the Node.js section below JavaScript.
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Note that Node.js is already supported by Azure Mobile Services and you can directly run Node.js scripts from Azure Mobile Services by configuring them in the Azure portal.
You can also create a project from existing Node.js code (which is likely to be the case if you were already developing on Node.js).
Select the "From Existing Node.js code" template. The dialog will launch a wizard to let you select the folder where your Node.js project is placed. It will enlist the Node.js start-up file if it finds one like the screenshot shown below:
(It is a good option to select "Exclude node modules", since they will unlikely to be your start-up app).
You are all set, but when you build your project, it is most likely to fail, since the node modules will not be present or correctly referenced. Right click on the project and use the "Open Command Prompt Here" command to launch the command prompt and use the "npm install" command to install the node modules.
The NTVS tools also provide a nice option to manage and install global node modules. In your solution structure, expand npm and click Manage Node Modules from the Global Modules context menu. The module manager dialog will be launched where you can search and install global node modules.
You are now all set to start developing your Node.js project from within Visual Studio 2013. Since this is built on the underlying V8 JavaScript engine, you can leverage the power of debugging JavaScript applications seamlessly. You also benefit from the usual Visual Studio IntelliSense features for JavaScript. In future posts we will explore more regarding the debugging and deployment aspects, and look at creating a worker role with Node.
Now that I am Chief Evangelist at EnterpriseWeb, people occasionally ask me what a Chief Evangelist does. My answer is that I provide thought leadership and marketing. To which my ever-curious audience predictably asks what the difference is between the two.
Thought leadership and marketing are in fact two different tasks with different (although related) goals. Marketing centers on communicating the value proposition and differentiator – what problems we solve, why you should buy what we're selling, and why you shouldn't (or can't) buy it from anyone else.
But thought leadership has a different goal. The goal of thought leadership is to paint the picture of the world of the future, a world our technology enables. Technology is changing and business is changing, and how technology-empowered business will look five, ten, or twenty years out is a complicated, imperceptible mess. Thought leadership helps people clear up the confusion so they can gradually understand how all the pieces fit together.
Marketing is about today and perhaps a few months into the future – what can we do for customers this year. Thought leadership connects today to tomorrow. It's not about getting all the details right. It's about painting the big picture. Thought leadership gives us the opportunity to place our technology into the broader context.
Thought leadership involves telling a story, one chapter at a time. Take the reader on a journey, filling in the missing pieces to the big picture over time. The story will naturally improve over time, and that's OK – since no one really cares about what the story was in years past. It's assembling the big picture of the future, piece by piece. Each piece has to stand on its own, but how they all fit together is the real lesson.
The world of HTML5 hybrid app development frameworks just got hotter with the beta release of Ionic Actinium, the Ionic Framework dubbed as "Bootstrap for Native", by the makers of Drifty, already popular for tools such as Jetstrap and Codiqa.
HTML5 is the platform of choice for desktop web applications and mobile websites and is gaining immense popularity for building hybrid and/or native self-contained mobile apps. Using HTML5 helps reduce the steep learning curve involved in developing native apps and in turn reduces time to market.
The Ionic Framework uses HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, packaged using the Cordova tools for creating platform specific iOS and Android apps. A lot of its core features are also built using AngularJS. Using AngularJS is a highly recommended option for building the apps using Ionic.
In this post, we will explore how you can setup Ionic on a Windows machine and then start building Android apps using the framework.
Following are the prerequisites:
You are now all set to configure Ionic and start building the apps.
Open an instance of Console 2 and execute the following commands
That's all. You are all set to now run Ionic projects.
First you need to create an Ionic project to get a template for building Ionic apps. You can run the following command to create an Ionic project.
This will download the necessary packages and will create the project folder structure as shown in the figure below:
This comes with a bootstrap template for building Ionic apps. You can directly build and run this in the Android emulator and you will get a basic template with navigation elements in place. To create the Android APK and deploy it in the emulator, first change into the project directory in Console 2
Next configure Android using the following command
You can now build and run the app in the emulator using the commands
This will build and launch the app in the emulator as shown below:
In the Ionic project folder structure, you will notice a www folder. This is where all your HTML5 pages will go. There are additional elements that we will explore in a future session, but navigate into the www folder and open the Index.html file using an editor. You will find the different elements that form a basic Ionic landing page. The header contains references to Ionic CSS, AngularJS, Cordova, and your application specific JS files with controller, app, and service logic.
The body element consists of the navigation structure and a place for rendering the views that are defined in the templates folder:
Now you can start creating your own views in the templates folder and build your app!
No, it wasn't an April Fool's joke: Hadoop vendor Cloudera just closed a $900 million financing round, showing the world that PowerBall isn't the only way to crazy riches. And while on the surface it seems to be a good problem to have (like we should all have such problems!), $900 million in the bank may actually be more trouble than it's worth. What's Cloudera going to do with all that green?
Clearly, at those stratospheric investment heights, the only possible exit is to go public. So, what should Cloudera spend money on to build a market cap even higher than its current $3.37 billion valuation? Yes, that's billion with a B, or $3,370,000,000 for all you zero-counters out there.
Clearly, they need to improve their product. While the Big Data opportunity is unarguably large, Hadoop as a platform has its challenges. The problem with sinking cash into the tech is that they'll quickly run into the "mythical man month" paradox: simply throwing people (in other words, money) at a piece of technology can only improve that technology so fast. All those zeroes won't buy you a baby in a month, you know.
Perhaps they'll invest in other products, either by assembling a gargantuan team of developers or by acquiring other companies, or both. Such a move is likely – but they'll end up with a mishmash of different technologies, or they'll run into the man-month problem again. Or both.
They're also likely to grow their team. More sales people selling Hadoop to all 500 of the Fortune 100. More Hadoop experts – going after all 1000 of the 500 top gurus out there. More recruiters perhaps, looking to squeeze more blood out of the Silicon Valley techie turnip. True, such fuzzy math works to your benefit if you're one of said gurus, but fuzzy math it is. You can only do so much hiring before you're hitting the bottom of every barrel.
Whatever happens, there's plenty of money to go around – unless, of course, you're already a holder of Cloudera stock or options. If so, you may have just been diluted to the point you could call yourself a homeopathy treatment. But regardless of where you stand with respect to the Cloudera nest egg, it's nigh impossible to divine a path that works out well for any of the parties involved – Cloudera employees, investors, or customers. But in the meantime, I'm sure they'll throw some kick-ass parties. Pass the shrimp, please!
This week I attended the bpmNEXT Conference in California. Unlike virtually every other conference I've ever attended, this one attracted Business Process Management (BPM) vendors and analysts, but not customers – and the vendors were perfectly happy with that. Essentially, this event was in part an opportunity for vendors to show their products to each other, but primarily an excuse to network with other people in the BPM market over drinks and dinner.
You would expect such a crowd to be cheerleaders for BPM, and many of them were. But all was not right in the world. One fellow quipped that not only was BPM dying, it was never alive in the first place. Another vendor pointed out that BPM is never on CIO's "must have" lists. And then we have vendors spending time and money to come to a conference devoid of sales opportunities.
So, what's wrong with the BPM market? True, there is a market for this gear, as many of the presenters pointed out in discussions of customers. But there was always the undercurrent that this stuff really isn't as useful or popular as people would like.
Welcome to the BPM zombie apocalypse. Zombies, after all, are dead people who don't realize they're dead, so they attempt to go about their business as though nothing was amiss. But instead of acting like normal, living people, they end up shuffling around as they shed body parts, groaning for brains. Time to get my shovel and escape to hype – and customer – filled conferences focusing on Big Data and Cloud.
I always look forward to attending retrospective meetings in an agile setup. It is the time to reflect upon how the team fared and make amendments for the future. There is always tons of learning and from every project springs some unique surprises during a retrospective session.
Team Foundation Server (TFS) Analytics can aid a retrospective discussion, and, more interestingly, be used as a form of gamification to bring in a bit of competitiveness amongst peers. The most interesting of the analytics you can bring into the discussion is the Code Churn report. It helps gauge the lines of code written by each member of the team and illustrates the churn generated. It can be a reflection of how much refactoring has gone in by comparing the deleted and added LOC. It may not be very useful directly for project budget and forecasting, but definitely gives a sense of achievement to the team and provides non-tangible benefits in the form of motivation. It is very easy to run the analytics reports provided by TFS. You however need to make sure that you have appropriate permissions to run.
Open Microsoft Office Excel 2013. You will see an option to connect to different sources under the Data tab. Select the option to create a connection to SQL Server analytics services as illustrated in the following figure.
This will open the data connection wizard. Type the TFS server name in the first step of the wizard and click next to step 2 that will bring the list of available cubes and perspectives as shown in the figure below:
Notice that Team System is the cube holding all possible dimensions and facts that you can create the analytics on, however specific perspective analytics are pre-created like Code Churn and Code Coverage.
Select the Code Churn perspective and finish. You will be prompted to choose the format in which you want to import the data. Select the PowerPivot option as shown:
From the PivotTable fields, choose the Code Churn Attributes as Column Values.
Scroll down the fields' information and select "Checked In By" under the Version Control Changeset category. This will get added as a Row Value and you will see a report generated as shown in the following figure.
This imported data shows the Code Churn Count, Lines Added, Deleted and the total impact in the form of Total Lines of Code. You can further dissect the information by adding Year / Month attributes to determine the highest and lowest code churn months / years. In addition, comparing with estimated hours of effort, you can use this information to drive sizing discussions.
There are additional perspectives that TFS has pre-generated like the Builds, Code Coverage, Tests, and Work Items. Each of these perspectives are useful for an effective retrospective discussing build quality, work progress, and tested code paths for sunny and rainy day scenarios.
When you write a computer program, you're providing instructions to one or more computers so that they can do whatever it is you've programmed them to do. In other words, you programmed the computers to have one or more capabilities.
According to Wikipedia, a capability is the ability to perform or achieve certain actions or outcomes through a set of controllable and measurable faculties, features, functions, processes, or services. But of course, you already knew that, as capability is a common English word and we're using it in a perfectly common way.
But not only is the term common, the notion that we program computers to give them capabilities is also ubiquitous. The problem is, this capability-centric notion of software has led us down a winding path with nothing but a dead end to greet us.
The problem with thinking of software as providing capabilities to our computers is that the computers will only be able to do those things we have programmed them to do. If our requirements change, we must change the program. Only once we deploy the program, it becomes instant legacy – software that is mired in inflexibility, difficult or even impossible to reprogram or replace. Hence the proverbial winding path to nowhere.
Our computers, however, are really nothing but tools. When they come off the assembly line, they have really no idea what programs they'll end up running – and they don't care. Yet while we're comfortable thinking of our hardware as tools, it takes a mind shift to fully grasp what it means to consider all of our software as tools.
Tools, you see, don't have capabilities. They have affordances. Affordance is an unquestionably uncommon word, so let's jump right to Wikipedia for the definition: an affordance is a property of an object, or an environment, which allows an individual to perform an action. The point to a tool, of course, is its affordances: a screwdriver affords users the ability to turn screws or open paint can lids, as well as unintended affordances like hitting a drum or perhaps breaking a window. But the screwdriver doesn't have the capability of driving screws; rather, a person has that capability when they have a screwdriver – and furthermore, it's up to the user to decide how they want to use the tool, not the manufacturer of the tool.
The software we use every day has affordances as well. Links are for clicking, buttons are for pushing, etc. Every coder knows how to build user interfaces that offer affordances. And we also have software we explicitly identify as tools: development tools (which afford the ability to develop software, among other affordances) for example. The problem arises when we cross the line from coding affordances to coding capabilities, which happens when we're no longer coding tools, but we're coding applications (generally speaking) or solutions.
Such applications are especially familiar in the enterprise space, where they are not simply single programs running on individual computers, but complicated, distributed monstrosities that serve many users and leverage many computers. We may use tools to build such applications, but the entire enterprise software lifecycle focuses on delivering the required functionality for bespoke applications – in other words, capabilities, rather than affordances. Even when you buy enterprise applications, the bulk of the value of the software comes from its capabilities. It's no wonder we all hate legacy applications!
The challenge for the enterprise app space – and by extension, all categories of software – is to shift this balance between capabilities and affordances to the extreme of maximum affordance. In other words, instead of building or buying software that can do things (in other words, has capabilities), we want software that can enable users to do things – and then maximize the affordances so that we have software smart enough to afford any action.
Superficially this goal sounds too good to be true, but remember what computers are for: they're for running programs which give them instructions. In other words, computers are examples of maximum affordance in action. The next step is to build software with the same purpose.
In a recent article for ComputerWorld, Howard Baldwin took a well-deserved poke at leading consulting punditocracy for pushing "Digital Transformation" on their customers. You must build a "digital industrial economy" opines Gartner! Or perhaps a "digital business" that includes a "comprehensive strategy that leads to new architectures, new services and new platforms" according to Accenture and McKinsey. Or maybe PricewaterhouseCooper's "digital IQ" is more your cup of tea?
The thrust of Baldwin's article, however, is that CIOs are pushing back against all this consultant newspeak. Readers of this blog may well be wondering where I fall in this discussion. After all, I recently penned The Agile Architecture Revolution. In the book I make the case that we are in the midst of a true revolution – one that reinvents old ways of doing IT, replacing them with entirely new approaches. You might think, therefore, that I align with the gurus of Gartner or the mages of McKinsey.
Sorry to disappoint. Just because we're in the midst of broad-based transformation in enterprise IT doesn't necessarily mean that "digital transformation" should be on your corporate shopping list. Digital transformation, after all, isn't a business priority. Making money, saving money, and keeping customers happy are business priorities. You should only craft a digital transformation strategy for your organization if it promises to improve the bottom line – and you can adequately connect the dots to said bottom line.
I'm sure the pundits at Pricewaterhouse and the others understand this point, and if you hire them, they'll connect the dots between their whiz-bang digital whatzit and, you know, actually making money. But if you read their white papers or see their executives pontificate at a conference, that's when they bring out the flashing lights and fireworks.
Bottom line: yes, we're in a period of great transformation, and yes, you'll need to figure out how to deal with it. But your business strategy must always focus on your core business priorities, not some flashy collection of buzzwords. Tech fads come and go, but business fundamentals remain the same.
In one of the previous blogs, I discussed building background services that can scale by tenant. There could however be scenarios where you want the system to scale by load (e.g. number of messages to be processed from queue). Often in such scenarios you want to have control over the way the load is generated to avoid redundancy, but want the processing to happen as soon as the message arrives. You would also want maximum utilization of the CPU for processing to minimize costs of scaling. Having an effective worker role design can help you better understand the efficiency of background services. The following figure illustrates one such design using the OnStart and Run methods inside the RoleEntryPoint class.
You can use the OnStart method to create instances of scheduled services using utilities such as Quartz.Net cron service scheduler that can then run at a pre-defined interval and populate designated queues with messages to be processed. Typically, you would want only one instance from the configured instances to be able to write into the queue to avoid duplication of messages for processing. The following code shows a typical cron schedule. The service configured will have the implementation of the leased method (we discussed in the previous blog post) that will schedule the messages in queue.
public override bool OnStart()
UnityContainer = UnityHelper.ConfigureUnity();
QueueProvider = UnityContainer.Resolve<IQueueProvider>();
LogService = UnityContainer.Resolve<ILogService>();
return base.OnStart();
The code inside the ScheduledServices method could look like:
DateTimeOffset runTime = DateBuilder.EvenMinuteDate(DateTime.Now);
JobScheduler scheduler = new JobScheduler();
These are examples of different types of cron services that are run by Quartz.net based on the defined schedule.
The following code illustrates the implementation inside the Run method of a worker role that uses Task Parallel Library to process multiple queues the same time.
public override void Run()
while (true)
() =>
ProcessMessages<ISiteConfigurationManager, MaintenanceScheduleItem>(Constants.QueueNames.SiteConfigurationQueue, (m, e) => m.CreateSiteConfiguration(e));
() =>
var hasMessages = ProcessMessages<IAggregationManager, QueueMessage>(Constants.QueueNames.PacketDataQueue, null, (m, e) => m.ComputeSiteMetrics(e));
if (!hasMessages)
catch (Exception ex)
This can scale to as many instances as you want, depending on the load on the queue and the expected throughput. The parallel processing will ensure that the CPU is optimally utilized in the worker role, and the run method will generate a continuous run of the instance to process items from the queue. You can also use the auto scale configuration to automatically scale the instances based on load.
There is one known issue you must be aware of in this design regarding the data writes on an Azure Table storage. Since multiple instance will be writing to the table, if you are running updates, there is a chance that the data could have been modified between the time you picked the record and updated it back after processing. Azure, by default, rejects such operations. You can, however, force an update by setting the table entity's ETag property to "*". The following code illustrates a generic table entity save--with forced updates.
public void Save<T>(T entity, bool isUpdate = false) where T : ITableEntity, new()
TableName = typeof(T).Name;
if (isUpdate)
entity.ETag = "*";
operations.Value.Add(isUpdate ? TableOperation.Replace(entity) : TableOperation.Insert(entity));
A word of caution though. This may not be the design you want to pursue if the system you are building is completely intolerant to a certain degree of data corruption at any point in time, since a forced update may result in such a behaviour.


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The RTC invested $5 million for the new diesel-hybrid buses using a combination of local fuel tax funds and the acquisition of a Federal Transit Administration State of Good Repair Grant, according to RTC Executive Director Lee Gibson. He said Friday the new buses would not only improve the quality of life for riders on the RTC services, but would help bring new projects to the community via the savings.
"At the first level they are just nice buses," Gibson said. "They are customer friendly. They are comfortable, but I think from our point of view running a business these buses are going to provide us with better operating efficiency.
"The hybrids save fuel, which saves money, and that is part of our effort to introduce capital projects into the system to save operating dollars. That's what these buses will do for us."
Gibson said $100,000 per year would be saved in operating costs because of the updated buses, four of which will be used on Virginia Street and the other four will be "spread evenly throughout the system so everyone has a chance to see and ride the new buses."
Bonnie Weber, Chair of the Washoe County Commission and RTC Board of Directors, spoke briefly during the celebration and said the RTC provides "a vital service for the community." She said riders are not the only ones benefiting from the investment.
"These buses will help us preserve the quality of life in our region by reducing congestion and fuel emissions," Weber said. "These buses have a better fuel economy and will allow the RTC to put more services on the street."
Sparks City Councilwoman Julia Ratti said the working relationship between the City Council and the RTC has been great and added that improving transportation for those who need it was an important part to being a progressive city.
"I think public transportation is important for the entire city, but in particular for those who live in the urban core," Ratti said. "There is such a great opportunity to take cars off the road and transport people more efficiently both for their benefit and for the benefit of the city.
"I think the RTC has done some great work in advancing transit. Certainly taking $100,000 in green energy and turning it into more services is a huge accomplishment."
Ratti said the hybrid aspect of the new buses has a two-fold effect on the region that reaches beyond eliminating fuel emissions. She said talks from Mike Kazmierski, CEO of the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN), show prospective businesses determining whether to relocate to the Truckee Meadows looking for some key factors.
"(Kazmierski) has talked about how many of the companies we are trying to lure to our area are looking if our city has an environmental component, is our city sustainable and how we are going to live the next 50 years of our lives," Ratti said. "They want to see that and this is just one more thing we can point to and say we are a progressive city and this is a great place to live, work and play."
Gibson said the RTC spent 18 months in the community talking to citizens and business owners before finding the overwhelming response to be more services and more choices. He said the new buses would provide just that and said they will be a "key assets for the community."
"We are doing a lot with a lot less," Ratti said, "And so anywhere we can get creative like this and make sure the investment pays off in both environmental sustainability and physical sustainability is huge."
Pyramid Way/McCarran Boulevard update
The RTC Board of Directors approved an amendment to the 2011-2015 Regional Transportation Improvement Plan for the right of way acquisition for the Pyramid/McCarran Intersection widening and improvement.
According to Gibson, the amendment will allow the RTC to "move forward more expeditiously" on acquiring property in the intersection's area and will allow for access to more funds to help the families who are affected.
"We are going to secure $23 million of federal funds and we are going to be able to help move those families who are in that affected area and hopefully move them along sooner," Gibson said. "Today was the first step and we have amended the transportation improvement program to include that $23 million."
The next step is for NDOT to amend the state transportation improvement program and we will be able to obligate those dollars shortly and get that project moving forward faster than before."


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NU Theatre will present Philip Barry's sparkling romantic comedy, The Philadelphia Story, which inspired the 1940 film of the same name starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart. This charming production will be directed by Steve Braddock, director of Niagara University Theatre. Set in 1939, the story opens on an opulent estate where a wedding is to take place. Barry's comedy centers on a beautiful, sophisticated, wealthy socialite whose wedding is complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her dashing ex-husband and an attractive journalist. Goodness! What's a girl to do? The production will be on stage in the Leary Theatre within the Elizabeth Ann Clune Center for Theatre, Clet Hall, on the NU campus. For tickets and information contact the NU Theatre Box Office at 716.286.8685 or visithttp://theatre.niagara.edu/


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Heroe's Bar & Grill
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Cask: N / Beer-to-Go: N
Ratings: 21 | Reviews: 20 | Show All Ratings:
New Jersey
4.18/5 rDev +2.2%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4 | selection: 4.5 | food: 3.75 | $$$
Stopped here for dinner with my buddy after a mini-beer crawl around the Vista area.
Had Drake 1500 and a Mission Street Session Pale Ale (the name escapes me). Both seemed fresh and good. The food was decent, big portions which was appreciated after consuming many beers throughout the day.
Free peanuts at the bar. Service was quick and more than helpful.
The one comment is that this place turns into a college bar with many colorful drinks being poured toward the end of our visit. A great place to meet people but loses the craft beer/pub aspect as the night progresses and becomes more like a club. So if that's your thing, cool, if not, go for lunch.
06-18-2013 22:02:35 | More by claspada
4.2/5 rDev +2.7%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4 | selection: 4 | food: 4.5 | $$
I could've sworn that I reviewed Heroe's back in my first days of BA. Well, I guess I didn't. Heroe's is an institution in Orange County, and the dowtown Fullerton scene was almost exclusively born out of Heroe's success.
I have been a regular at Heroe's since it's opening. Actually was there before they had all of their paperwork in order, so they tapped a keg, and were just giving their beer away (ostensibly just for friends-ala private party style). Absolutely amazing what Jack and his crew created in such a small space, originally at the Villa del Sol in the heart of dowtown. The food was always very good, and the portions were huge, even in the early days. But for me, the beer selection was always excellent.
Back in the early 90's I told Billy, who helps handle beer ordering, about Stone starting to distribute to BJ's in Brea, so he called Stone, and became one of the first to pour Stone on tap in North OC. They take good care of their beer, cleaning their tap lines often--You wouldn't get an "off" beer at Heroe's. Now Heroe's anchors the SoCo district. The food is still very good, still served in huge portions, and they still have a great beer selection. If you are a BA, and in OC, it is a must stop for pub food and beer.
10-06-2012 23:48:38 | More by 2beerdogs
3.84/5 rDev -6.1%
vibe: 4 | quality: 3.5 | service: 4 | selection: 4 | $$$
Heroes is located on the main drag in Fullerton on Harbor/Sante Fe. There is parking on the street throughout the area.
The space is fairly large with lots of high tables and the bar near one entrance. Table seating is more prevalent near the other entrance. The bar boasts a huge mirror and there are bison heads along with a clear view of all the taps. There are peanut shells everywhere as they are passed out to all patrons. In addition there is a beer menu available.
As for the taps, there are at least 100 which is amazing. However on closer inspection more than half are macros or common brews. Still there are plenty of gems including New Belgium, Pyramid, Stone, The Bruery, Bootlegger, Karl Strauss, Kona, Moylan's and many more. A good amount of imports as well.
Service was good on a weekday early evening. The bartenders had a good grasp of the beer list and made other recommendations on beer spots in the area.
I did not have any food on this visit (other than peanuts).
Overall this is a good spot to hit in Fullerton. Not the best to place to go if you want to try new brews all night but worthwhile nonetheless.
09-17-2010 20:05:37 | More by Dogbrick
3.4/5 rDev -16.9%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 3.5 | service: 2 | selection: 4 | food: 4 | $$$
Went here sunday 11/8/09. Sat outside as to not wait for a table. They have a pretty good list of taps to choose from. I ended up going with a pint of Anderson Valley Oatmeal Stout at $6. It was the worst beer pour imaginable. I was outside so I did not witness it, so I'm not sure if the waitress poured the beer or bartender. The glass came to me with about 3/4 head and 1/4 beer, I was in conversation when it showed up so I waited untill the beer settled and it ended up less then 3/4 full, I informed the waitress she looked confused and came back with the beer topped off but still not a proper poor. The food is good and in large quantity.
11-09-2009 19:32:09 | More by BdubleEdubleRUN
4.05/5 rDev -1%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4 | selection: 4 | food: 3.5 | $$
I prefer to go to this Heroe's because they have a more extensive beer list. But that's just about the only reason.
I have been here a few times and each time I'm reminded of why I don't go here more often, despite the fact that it has one of the better tap lists in the area.
During the day or on a non-weekend night, it is okay. But if you're there on a Friday or Saturday night, or even on a Thursday, it's going to be FULL of the typically low-brow Downtown Fullerton Bar crowd.
The place itself is decorated with plenty of antique trinkets, signs, and even bicycles. Everyone is given packages of peanuts upon sitting down and throwing the shells on the floor is standard operating procedure.
The beer list is fairly large, offering a lot of Stone, some Anderson Valley, Bootleggers, Firestone, a few German beers, Chimay (Blue), and your typical Fat Tire, Sierra Nevada, Guiness, and a slew of BMC beers. Surprisingly they also have Lindeman's Framboise and Pomme, but both are bottles only and are pricey at $9 for a 375ml bottle. They also offer a few ciders.
The service is fine. Nothing to write home about, but never bad either. The one thing I would advise against is splitting up a check if you're with a group and everyone is paying separately. I've had HUGE problems with this here.
The food is your typical bar food. I generally get some sort of burger or sandwich, which are good, big and come with a ridiculously large order of fries. The sandwiches tend to be $9-12 with other dishes being the same or more expensive.
09-27-2009 19:36:55 | More by womencantsail
4.5/5 rDev +10%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.5 | food: 4.5 | $$
I came to the area on a business trip. I would've never heard of this place unless I met this group of guys prior to the Angels game.
This place was cool. Tons of great beers on draught and the food is good. The server wasn't that with it (my friend kept asking for bourbon and diet; she kept serving him scotch with an ice cube).
The food is enormous. If you are hungry, get a sandwich, because it is huge. The beers are served in big glasses as well.
Overall, I liked this place and would recommend it.
09-11-2008 13:40:12 | More by DuqTroops
3.93/5 rDev -3.9%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 3.5 | selection: 4 | food: 4.5 | $$
Another place that I visit frequently...this is a great place to get some good beer! Located next to Fullerton College, many college students venture here to not only meet the opposite sex...but to obtain some good quality beer. Heroe's has a great selection of beer...I would say roughly 60 to 80 beers on tap. There is only two things I would have to criticize about there selection. First of all, they don't seem to change out any of there beers. Secondly, they don't have enough stouts. LOL. Other then that, this is a great place to go when you just want to hang out with your buddies and grab a pint.
08-15-2008 05:48:01 | More by OlieIPA
4.68/5 rDev +14.4%
vibe: 5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 5 | selection: 4.5 | food: 4.5 | $$
The place is real cozy. 113 beers on taps. The one gripe is there is no beer menu? You have to cruise down the bar and look over people two see what your next beer is going to be. The food was really top of the line for bar food. I had a really goood pattymelt and the portions are huge!! The staff was really nice and freindly.
The beer prices were reasonable I paid $6 for a Stone Ren.dbl. ipa and $4 for a Alaskan ipa.
The food is very reasonable for the portion size you get is huge and great quality.
08-09-2008 06:30:28 | More by athensbeermaster
3.6/5 rDev -12%
vibe: 4 | quality: 3 | service: 4 | selection: 4 | food: 3 | $$
I like Heroes. I usually visit once a month or so and I've been going for a few years.
It's always packed and it's always loud. Even when the place is a zoo, I usually have no problem walking up to the bar and getting a beer.
They have some where around 100 taps and there are always a few beers worth trying. They are light on the smaller craftier micro brews but have plenty of Anderson Valley, Firestone and Stone. There's a respectable selection of German/British imports.
The food portions are huge. Really, they're too big. The food is okay. It's never great and rarely bad.
It's worth a visit if you are in the mood to drink a lot.
03-27-2008 22:46:52 | More by kbm
3.53/5 rDev -13.7%
vibe: 4 | quality: 3 | service: 4 | selection: 3.5 | food: 3.5 | $$$
Great college bar if you want a happening spot with a fun atmosphere and a wide range of beer choices. However, for beer geeks this in not a place to find any "special" beers. Although they had what seemed like a 50 draft beers, 80-90% of them are really nothing special -all of these are regularly available at most supermarkets. Out of the 6-7 left that were interesting, 4 were tapped out.
The nachos were a good deal, a half order of nachos was enough for 3 people.
6$ for a 13oz pint of local microbrew (non-belgian)seems a little high in my book.
Great place to party. If you're really looking for good beer, go to Taps Fish House, blows this place out of the water for quality of beer.
01-03-2008 05:01:11 | More by BeerDonkey
Heroe's Bar & Grill in Fullerton, CA
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Fantasy Impact: The New York Islanders have signed winger Brad Boyes to a one year deal worth $1 million.
The Islanders get: a forward who is on the decline, but is still quite young. Boyes will fill the void left by Parenteau, and just 18 months ago was widely considered 100 times better than Parenteau. What a difference a couple of poor seasons make.
Fantasy Players Impacted: Add me to the list of people who figured Boyes was done. I would have been surprised if he ever got 50 points again. BUT, this team is easily the best possible fit. Getting the ice time that he'll get, with the young, skilled guys (such as John Tavares) passing him the puck, there is a strong chance that he'll rebound enough to get the 50 points.
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So to me at this point Boyes is looking as the 4th top 6 winger, without hurting Grabner or Okposo. But it wouldn't surprise me if the Isles target one more center and winger for the 2nd line via FA or trade (target doesn't mean they get one, but players like Jokinen and Huselius come to mind) and form an intriguing 3rd line of Bailey-Nielsen-Boyes that'll give opponents tactical headaches because all three can play both C and W.
As for Joensuu, he didn't exactly set the world on fire in Sweden last year - 29 points in 50 games in Sweden do not translate into top-6 minutes in the NHL in my book. I doubt he's hurt by Boyes because I doubt he was slotted for the roles Boyes might play. To me at this point he is at best part of a potent 4th line with Martin and Reasoner/Cizikas.


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