Archives for July 2006
Scoble points to a recent Ray Ozzie speech, highlighting that Ozzie doesn’t think the Web is the be all and end all of software applications. Ozzie says,
Given the assumption of low bandwidth, it seemed very natural that the limited desktop terminal model, like that of a browser, would be required if centralized services were […]
There’s a huge amount of hype surrounding blogging. I can’t help feeling, though, that it’s much more niche than many people would have you believe. In other words, the numbers of readers, listeners and viewers of text, audio and video blogs are much, much lower than all the hype would suggest. […]
Back in January of this year, I wrote that graphical IDEs were, after many years, finally ready for use by top talent developers. Over the last few months, we’ve been doing a lot of development work in both Java and C#.NET. In terms of IDEs, we’ve been using Netbeans 5.5 for Java, and […]
A few people have e-mailed me to ask if I’m pro Sun Microsystems, or anti Sun Microsystems. I can understand the confusion (some of my posts about Sun are postive about the company and its offerings, and some are more critical).
But if you think about it, my position is pretty easy to understand: […]
Microsoft has invented developed a new image format - called Windows Media Photo. From a quick glance, it looks pretty good (check out the nice work that Bill Crow, Microsoft’s Program Manager for Windows Media Photo, is doing on his blog). I’m more than a little interested in image formats at […]
(Update: be sure to read the comments section, for some useful points by Simon Phipps)
A couple of days ago, Sun Microsystems released details of their long-awaited Thumper product - aka the X4500. Simon Phipps is in love (as is Tim Bray). I’m a big fan of Simon, but I wonder why […]
It’s being reported that an analyst group has predicted Java EE will die within five years. Give me strength.
What’s my problem with this? Let me illustrate with an example. I could, say, predict that Microsoft Windows will be dead in ten years. Depending on your particular viewpoint, you might […]
I’ve just been trying some new LightScribe 1.2 media for CD and DVDs, and I have to say, I’m quite impressed. Burning labels with LightScribe 1.2 is significantly faster than with previous media - it now takes around 20 minutes for a full label and best qualty. Previously, you were realistically looking at […]