Jan 31 2009
This is a great article about the myth of how the best technology doesn’t necessarily win. Granted, sometimes the best technology does not win, but there is a persistent and pervasive sense that the populous often chooses the “VHS” over the far superior alternative. The article addresses the VHS vs Beta debate directly as well as the victory over D…
Jan 28 2009
Silverlight 2 may not have the control set that Flex developers are used to seeing out of the box but there are a significant number of control vendors who are stepping up to the plate to fill the void. It seems as though Microsoft’s strategy has been to get the Silverlight 2 runtime out as quickly as possible (and as lean as possible) always knowi…
Dec 31 2008
I just bought a 1TB external HD, the “Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus” this weekend on sale at London Drugs. A bit of an impulse purchase but I’ve been digiizing all of our dvd’s lately into iTunes and had completely run out of space… The drive has a bunch of automated backup features I’ll never use, so I skipped all the software and went to use the drive d…
Dec 21 2008
Where we’re coming from So at the beginning of the year I was tasked with evaluating a number of technologies for RIA development for the next evolution of my company’s product. Up to this point we had been relying extensively on ASP.NET forms with a traditional post-back model that was responsible for a lot of wasted time and bandwidth. We’ve leve…
Dec 17 2008
Controls included with FlexBuilder 3 out of the box below… check out some third party components here . Notes will be updated as I actually get a chance to put some of these to use. FlexBuilder 3 Controls Control Name Notes AdvancedDataGrid Professional version only + multi column sorting + grouping + tree view + printing support – Still no paging …
Dec 15 2008
I come from a background of managed memory and interpreted languages. I’m a big proponent of pragmatic approaches to problems and as little re-inventing of the wheel as humanly possible. I don’t think the world needs another text editor, and I personally don’t feel the need to write my own version of the stack I rely on for application development.…
Dec 12 2008
Another Ajax Framework : (or rather, an Application Framework) http://cappuccino.org/ http://cappuccino.org/learn/ Demo app built using it: http://280slides.com/ And a teaser for all those interface builder lovers out there : http://ajaxian.com/archives/nib2cib-use-interface-builder-to-design-your-ajax-apps I came across this in reader this morn…
Nov 28 2008
This is a post for myself, to basically bookmark the excellent work of someone else. My post is contributing practically nothing (maybe adding some context/weight for his article) but here it is anyway. ;-) http://blog.copton.net/articles/linker/index.html Despite not being an active user of C++ I really enjoyed this post. I actually feel a little …
Nov 11 2008
A good friend of mine Sarah believes that the moon landings were a hoax. Despite being a huge science geek , a fan of NASA and a member of the planetary society she subscribes to the idea that man has not in fact walked on the moon, and the entire thing was a lie perpetrated in an effort to win the political war with the USSR. Or something along th…
Nov 9 2008
Consumption is one of those things that is on my mind a lot. Both economically as I aim to live debt free and with as little "stuff" as really needed as well as in other forms of energy. Buy local, buy less packaging, drive less, eat less! It goes on and on. One of the really interesting things with looking at google appengine is their metering and…