Archives for February 2006
Tim Bray has brought together an interesting set of posts, about the current state of Web Services. Tim thinks Web Services are smelling a bit rotten. It’s not all that surprising they’re emitting an odour, is it? Well, I don’t think it is. Surely this was all rather predictable, right from [...]
Steve Gillmor seems to think that Microsoft Office is a dead product. He has thus renamed “Office 2007″, which is the forthcoming version of Office, “Office Dead”. It’s kind of tough to understand what he’s saying (it seems to involve a TV show he watches with his five year-old daughter), but based on [...]
Disney, Time Warner, Fox, Paramount and Universal have apparently instigated legal proceedings against Samsung, demanding that the company recalls all of their DVD players that can circumvent DVD region and copy protection.
A product recall? How does that work? Samsung doesn’t own the DVD players they sold to people. They can’t recall them. [...]
With Java SE 6 (Mustang) now at the beta release stage, I thought I’d enter into the community spirit and submit a regression that I’d noticed. The cool thing is, it only took the team three days (I submitted it on Feb 16), to process the bug submission, assign it a status, and [...]
With Java SE 6 now in beta, and Netbeans 5.0 in production, the Java platform is finally getting ready for the big time on the client. Now, one of the strengths of Java always been its libraries. So, please, let’s have some more investment in Java’s multimedia libraries (e.g. the Java Media Framework [...]
Tim Bray has an interesting post on PHP. He says,
If you want your ears bent back, have a listen to Zend CEO Doron Gerstel; he’ll tell you that half the websites in the world are powered by PHP and that there are 2½ million developers
And goes on to say,
So here’s my problem… all the PHP [...]
Life Science IT has been a tough nut for IT companies to crack. They all want to do a lot better than they have historically. What is life science IT? Well, it involves such disciplines as bioinformatics, cheminformatics, chemometrics and clinical informatics, amongst many others. These subjects lie at the interface between computing [...]
I’ve been wanting to experiment with “saving my data in the cloud” (i.e. out on the Internet) for a quite a while now. Assuming the implementation is right (transparent), it seems like it should be the perfect way to store your data. After all, if it’s out on the Net, you can access [...]
There’s two schools of thought when it comes to blog comments: “comments on”; and “comments off”. Choosing whether or not to enable comments on your blog is, for some, a difficult decision. There is a variety of reasons - personal, business and legal - why some people don’t enable comments on [...]
Skype has recently signed an exclusive deal with Intel to make ten-way conference calls run only on Intel-based hardware. Skype will limit the maximum number of callers on a conference call to five on systems based around AMD CPUs. The length of time of exlusivity in the agreement isn’t in the public [...]