Archives for January 2006
A few days ago, I blogged about our decision to switch to Mustang - the codename for the forthcoming Java SE 6 - for a key project. If you’re not up to speed with the features that will most likely make the final cut of Java SE 6, there’s a recent article over [...]
As anyone involved in building software in a commercial environment knows: developer productivity really matters. Of course, amongst developers there is a huge range of capabilities: great developers can be more than ten-times as productive as average developers. And not only do developers have different intrinsic abilities, they like to work in diverse [...]
For those Apple fans, that haven’t seen it - a fifteen minute video walk-through of features on the new MacBook Pro…
Enjoy…
There have been reports on the Net today about Sun co-founder Bill Joy’s revelations that Sun and Apple have more than once, through the years, come close to merging. In fact, Joy said, there were six close encounters. In the late 1990s, I was a strong advocate of such a move. Why? [...]
If you develop in Java, and you’re looking for an IDE that provides great, round trip UML support, you need look no further than Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8. It’s built on Netbeans 4.1… and best of all, it’s free.
I think the price tag of “free” is a great deal. I used [...]
In the wake of the Apple’s announcement of their new computer with Intel Core Duo CPUs - the iMac and the MacBook Pro - at the Steve Jobs Macworld keynote, I’ve seen a few types of comment that don’t make sense to me. The comments seem to be aimed at promoting Windows computers over [...]
I’ll be blogging my initial reactions to the announcements at the Steve Jobs Macworld keynote, as they happen. It’s about to start, right now (9.07am).
Apple sold 14 million iPods in the 2005 holiday season. That’s pretty impressive. Above expectations, I’d have said.
On iTunes, the video sales (8 million since launch) are insignificant [...]
Well. That’s it! The decision has been made! We’re switching to Mustang (code name for Java SE 6), for a key project. It’s been a while since we’ve had a requirement to use an “early access” version of Java for an important project. I feel a bit like I [...]
The job of a CEO has, for decades, been framed in one way - to maximise shareholder value. However, times have changed, and shareholders ain’t what they used to be. So what’s a CEO to do? In his recent interview with Business Week, talking largely about Apple, Clayton Christensen made the [...]
With the Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld only hours away, an interview with Clayton Christensen, Professor of Business Adminstration at the Harvard Business School has been published by Business Week.
Christensen’s view is that Apple may not have learnt anything from its past mistakes. Last time around, the company ceded control of the PC industry [...]