Archives for January 2006
We all know that Microsoft hasn’t had the most successful of relationships with Java. But that’s all in the past now. I was having a conversation with someone today, that reminded me of a conversation I had with someone from Microsoft a few years ago. The Microsoft guy wanted to meet with […]
There is a great post by Peter Rip on the current state of Venture Capital. Speaking as an entrepreneur, I have a couple of observations.
Firstly, I don’t see a lot of appetite amongst VC individuals to create billion dollar companies and massive returns. Why? I guess in part, it’s because they’re risk-averse. Many individual […]
Technorati lets you monitor blogs according to how they’re tagged, via building live self-updating charts. This doesn’t capture everything of course. Not every blogger adds specific tags to describe the details of the posts; and people user different tags to describe the same concepts. However, these charts probably do give a pretty good […]
There’s currently a discussion going on between Elizabeth Lane Lawley and Robert Scoble centered on the question: do we need tools that let help people deal with large numbers of RSS/Atom feeds. Robert believe we do need such tools, and Elizabeth disagrees; she believes Robert is an edge-case. Elizabeth has put forward an intelligent and […]
In that last week or so, you will no doubt have read about Oracle and Sun having a public falling out over the precise words used to describe Oracle’s attitude to Netbeans. The question at issue has been: does Oracle “endorse” Netbeans, or has it “adopted” Netbeans? It seems that Sun wanted […]
Just upgraded to WordPress 2.0. I’m looking forward forward to is seeing how well the new automated comment spam filter (Akismet) works. The previous algorithm I used - hold comments for moderation with two or more links, or that contain the words “casino” or “poker” - actually work pretty well. That simple algorithm actually stopped […]
It seems that development of Firefox 2.0 is nearing a beta release. It’s great to see continued innovation at Mozilla. However, I’d like to put in a plea for the developers to fix 1.5 too.
I’m still on Firefox version 1.07 because, frankly, Firefox 1.5 is unusable on all the computers I’ve […]
Sam Ruby, Mark Pilgrim, Joseph Walton, and Phil Ringnalda have kindly made a free service available for helping developers of sofwtare that generate RSS or Atom feeds. It’s called Feed Validator for Atom and RSS. For anyone that develops this kind of software, it’s a really useful service; assuming you want your RSS […]
Lots of people, including Tim Bray have been commenting on the fact that Apple’s new photocasting feature in iPhoto does not extend and implement RSS in the most elegant of ways.
Now, of course, Tim is more than qualified to comment - it’s undeniable that he has an excellent understanding both of what makes “good” XML […]
Today, I had the pleasure of visiting a great group of developers who wanted some feedback on a project they’ve been working on for the last few years. They’re now getting ready for a public release of some of their systems, with everything due to go live towards the middle of the year. […]