Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in apple, Technology on Mar 8th, 2008
I’m still an aspiring iPhone owner – having only bought a second replacement Treo in the last year – I’m not quite ready to shell out more cash right now; and I’m also waiting for TomTom (or a competitor) to port their GPS app. to the iPhone. That’s something I use a lot and I’m [...]
Posted in Enterprise, open source, Technology on Mar 5th, 2008
If you work in the IT / software industry and unless you’ve been shipwrecked on a deserted island for the last 5 years you have probably followed the rise of JBoss. I have tracked them very closely as a competitor. Founded in 2001; JBoss proved the commercial Open Source model, disrupted the incumbents in an [...]
Posted in Enterprise, Technology on Mar 3rd, 2008
And now a word from my sponsor. It’s that time of year when you need to really impress your boss, so when you submit your expense request for JavaOne 2008 – they won’t have to think twice about letting you attend the biggest developer conference on the planet. The chances of me attending this year [...]
Posted in apple, Technology on Feb 27th, 2008
The chance of me owning an iPhone is increasing all the time; having a broad range of third party apps. would push me over the edge and allow me to dump my Treo (or at least turn it into a dedicated GPS).
Posted in Technology on Feb 27th, 2008
The EU just fined Microsoft $US 1.35bn for failing to comply with a previous anti-trust ruling. IMO – that seems a bit low for a company with oodles of cash (2007 NET income was $US 14bn and equity of over $US 30bn). I just don’t see how this will change Microsoft’s behavior. Still – Neelie [...]
Posted in Technology on Feb 27th, 2008
As reported on slashdot, TimeWarner / RoadRunner have been redirecting mistyped / non-existent URLs to their own (pretty lame) search page. Why do this ? Well it allows RR to turn all those dead-links and mistyped URLs into advertising revenue at the expense of a poor user-experience. Though, my guess is that any ad revenue [...]
Posted in Technology on Feb 27th, 2008
Posted in Technology on Feb 27th, 2008
Microsoft have finally figured out that Metcalfe’s Law applies to them as much as the next software company – despite their huge footprint. To quote Microsoft’s CEO and CMM (Chief Mad-Monkey) Steve Balmer : “In a more connected, services-oriented world…one of the greatest value-adds in some sense is what people do on the other end [...]
Posted in Technology, Uncategorized on Feb 27th, 2008
I have FileVault enabled on my MBP thinking it was a responsible way to protect work-related proprietary information from falling into the wrong hands; turns out it’s actually quite easy (for a dedicated hacker) to crack the password / key according the this CNET article. Some pretty interesting ideas about salvaging information from memory. Hopefuly [...]
Posted in Technology on Feb 27th, 2008
Lunar Eclipse, originally uploaded by sharps. The clouds cleared enough for me to take a some pictures of the lunar eclipse tonight. The star above is Regulus, and Saturn is on the left. This was the only picture worth posting. My setup is simple – Nikon D40, tripod and remote shutter release.