Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research spelt an astonishing report gentled And Straight off for the News…The Emperor Has No Clothes”. If you can catch a copy, interpret it. Starting with the unsatisfying but waited news that journalism is no longer a service consumers want to pay for, he travels on to the problems presenting Internet [...]
May 29, 2008
Life Calculus
Yesterday my coworkers redecorated my office. Pictures in this blog entry are photos of their work. Funnily enough, I felt myself quite appreciative of their act of vandalism. Today is my 40th birthday. Like most other days, I started by taking the air the dog and doing a To-Do list. Still, today’s list has a [...]
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Working large business problems in our minuscule toolbox application. A use case for Project Distributor.
Project Distributor: Introduction to our staggered web service modelSo Darren and I have assigned in about a month at present on the Project Distributor website. We are begining to progress to that decisive point where the site is pretty coolheaded, we have plenty of users, we are thinking of operating out of the permissible bandwidth [...]
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There can be only if one… with data
Sean & Scott [fixated link]: The example you yielded is outstanding, although I would advise something a little more robust, specifically you believably desire to take into account data to pass between the already escaping instance and the newfangled one made (this takes into account you to mobilise the command line arguments). I pent an [...]
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Beating Google ?
Is there anything more fun than riding about, developing your hair, pledging a Bud while listening to Jethro Tull and ruminating how to exchange the balance of power in the search world and unseat Google ?Best search ? Too immanent. Better monetization ? After the fact. Best User Interface ? Will we cognise it when [...]
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May 2, 2008
Introducing Microsoft Tagspace
Also see: Single source code base for Silverlight and WPF solutions Also see: Video games Also see: JSR-294 Superpackages Tagspace * is a social bookmarking service for software professionals** that encourages sound sleep and sweet dreams by enabling you to be better informed, better connected, and more productive. The more you use Tagspace, the more you’ll wonder [...]
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March 26, 2008
AppDomains (“application domains”)
Also see: Applied Metamodelling: A Foundation for Language Driven Development An AppDomain is a light-weight process. Well, if you actually measure the costs associated with an AppDomain – especially the first one you create, which has some additional costs that are amortized over all subsequent ones – then “light-weight” deserves some explanation: A Win32 [...]
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March 25, 2008
We Live in an “Open Book” World, the Lie of Information Overload
Also see: Introducing Microsoft Tagspace In school, there were two kinds of tests. The regular kind where you learned and memorized all you could and then did your best on the test. The 2nd kind was the Open Book Test. Where you could use your notes and text books to figure out the answer to [...]
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VPC 2007 Dual Monitor support
Also see: Chicago geek dinner 11/22 I have been trying to find a way to allow you to run Virtual PC 2007 with multiple monitors. Natively VPC 2007 doesnt support more than 1 monitor, however you can “trick” it by using various techniques that expand the desktop area into a larger virtual desktop. I tried using the [...]
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March 24, 2008
Data Types a la Carte
Also see: There can be only one… with data Also see: UI design Also see: A quick update on me. Data Types a la Carte. Wouter Swierstra. This paper describes a technique for assembling both data types and functions from isolated individual components. We also explore how the same technology can be used to combine [...]
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