Category Technology
Karen Spärck Jones
Web 2.0? Try Web 1.01.
If it’s about the users, then it’s about independence, stupid. Name the four or five online services/web sites you use daily. I bet among others you’ll find Flickr, Yahoo!, Google, blogspot and wordpress.com (for those blogging/publishing online) in most peoples’ lists and in some, the most ridiculous of them all, Twitter. What’s wrong with all […]
Although JavaFX has a lot of potential, the technology also has a lot of weaknesses.
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Why I don't like Silverlight.
The short answer: because it comes from Microsoft and reeks of its aspirations of total domination monopoly. Because it excludes Linux even before it’s out. Because it doesn’t conform to Open Standards. The long answer: I recall only too well the web-hell of yesteryear when sites required Internet Explorer, when proprietary, temperamental Microsoft DHTML was […]
Late Night Coding
Coda
It's out.
It’s that time of year again. The latest version of Ubuntu, the most popular linux distribution of the past few years, version 7.04 codenamed “Feisty Fawn” just came out. But what does it bring to the average user? Before I start my brief review, let me preface this by stating that Feisty is definitely an […]