Robert X. Cringely is one of my favorite technical bloggers. He blogs once a week (he calls it an article). Each of his "articles" are fun, smart, well-informed and very enlightening.
Last week he wrote an astounding article where he observed that Google is building data center after data center and took this to its logical conclusion: Google plans to take over the Internet (OK, so I gloss...
I have loved Wikis for many years. I first discovered them back in 2000 and tried to convince the engineering team I was working with at the time to start using them. They would have nothing of it. As a matter of fact, I was working with Francois Orsini back then, and I particularly remember him scoffing at it and not understanding the point.
Anyway, as more and more Wiki providers have...
Sacre bleu! A Java applet - ThinkFree - wins
Computerworld's award for best online office suite? What is this world coming to? I thought we had dismissed Java on the client long ago?
Quote from ThinkFree CEO T. J. Kang:
Currently the best way to offer advanced Web Office functionality is to utilize Java. Ajax doesn’t cut it when it comes to advanced functionality. Although in theory you...
When I lost my job at a startup that imploded (another story for another day), I did some serious job searching. This was in 2001, at a time when jobs were very sparse indeed -- I had some friends out of work for over a year; others took up jobs selling shoes or running movie projectors at the local cinema. I posted my resume at many different sites. Somebody warned me at the time this was a...
I'm tooling around with a Wiki site in my spare time, and I'm trying to find the best Wiki solution out there. I am currently using Twiki, and I really like it. The problem is I have to host it and maintain it, and although it's very powerful, it's not that approachable to newbies (although it probably could be with a lot of tweaking on my part).
So I've been looking at other sites. JotSpot...
I just love open source. Before Derby, all the projects I worked
on were closed source, and if you wanted to get something done,
you had to scrounge and beg for resources, and usually you didn't
get it. All the cool ideas you had to improve the product had to play
second fiddle to other priorities.
With Derby, within Sun, it's been the same way. We only have so
many resources, and we have to...
Back in October
I mentioned a cool little app I wrote that allows you to manage a calendar of events offline and then synchronized with Google Calendar.
At the time I promised more details and asked you to watch this space. Well, I finally have something for you to look at. It took so long because I decided it was better to produce as an article than a blog, and then I had to go through the...
I have been spending the past few weeks doing a fairly random walk through the NetBeans code tree, documentation, and web pages (internal and external). For the most part it has been like wandering through a completely foreign city (Prague?) with just a nominal understanding of the language and a couple of maps.
However, I am starting to get some context and learning the lay of the land....
