Bill Manning’s Blog

There are certain things that make me smile and this is one of them. On Monday, Paul Colton (my CEO) had to give a presentation at AjaxWorld West. He was looking for a good way to show how to display the debug of Ajax application using our the Aptana IDE and the physical iPhone using a iSight camera. I came with an idea and that would allow him to do so and be portable. I ran over to OfficeDepot and grabbed about $10 worth of items. They were very simple and thought it may work. All it took was one 8″ clip board and one sleeve of industrial strength velcro. Well, today Doug Campbell blogged about Paul’s speech here. In it he states:

“After my session, I met Paul Colton from Aptana. He did a presentation showing off their killer JavaScript focused IDE that has a lot of cool features - like syntax highlighting and code completion for JavaScript and all the AJAX libraries. He showed real-time debugging an iPhone app, using a contraption he built to show you the phone via an iSight camera. Using this thing, he sets the iPhone in the cradle and can zoom in on the screen to show it on his laptop display, along side the IDE. Then you can see the real-time editing/debugging process. It was very impressive!”

Well, low and behold there was my contraption. Fun but cool.

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Meeting Brendan Eich, originally uploaded by Bill Manning.

Yesterday was a total geek out moment for me. With my new job I have
had a chance to meet some pretty amazing people and yesterday was one of them. Brendan Eich (CTO of Mozilla and creator of JavaScript) came by to see some new stuff we are working and we wanted some advice and just see what he thought. Being a coder of JavaScript and product manager for a JavaScript it was like getting a visit from the
President (not the current one but a cooler one like Clinton). He was
brilliant and gracious. It was a truly awesome moment and will be
working with him in the future on some interesting things. Great moment.

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My life at work right now, originally uploaded by Bill Manning.

This is pretty much my life at work right now. JavaScript, notes and
coffee.

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The next Iron Chef, originally uploaded by Bill Manning.

Liam is getting so big and he is so funny. He loves to mix up the
pancakes and gets happy about making it.

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At work we have been working through some interesting reactions to our change from the standard EPL (Eclipse Public License) over to our APL (Aptana Public License). The reaction was mixed to say the least. Well, we are now about to announce a change to a dual license which should satisfy everyone. We are going to go with the GPL v3 in conjunction with our APL. We are now officially Open Source. This will hopefully satisfy everyone. There are many companies that do a dual license (MySQL for one). This will allow us to protect our code and still allow us to be considered open source. This is a great thing and a great move for our company.

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