I wrote a blog article a few months back, Microsoft’s 3-front war, Part 1 where I was going to explain each of the 3 fronts Microsoft is competing on in a separate blog article and conclude with the recommendation in this article. But I’m going to skip all these and just jump straight more or [...]
After studiously (yes – studiously – considering how often you get bugged by the OS) avoiding upgrading my IE6 installation to anything newer, I finally heeded the update call and upgraded to IE8. I think Microsoft has finally done something right with IE8 because it supports web standards much better in its default state. (UPDATE: [...]
When using Globe 3G to view websites, I was disturbed to find that so many web pages had very low image quality. Upon closer inspection, I was alarmed to see that the images were being loaded in from a numeric IP address (usually 62.0.5.135 62.0.5.133 or 62.0.5.134 ) rather than the website itself, and I [...]
URL at http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/big_00.html Since today’s browser environment is rapidly becoming the equivalent of an OS, the innovations in Chrome seem to be ideas whose time has come. One of the central ideas behind Chrome’s architecture is to assign a different process (not thread) to each tab and the strip explains why. The section on how [...]
This blog article by Dare Obasanjo purports to give an insider’s view of how Microsoft might be a more desirable workplace environment than Google, in contrast to all the media portrayals about how working at Google is like being in a playground. In my own blog essay here, I would like to offer the view [...]
Finally, we have a book that vindicates the desirability of a REST interface over AJAX and SOAP. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/a_year_in_oreilly_books.html, I remember back when SOAP, UDDI and all the rest of the corporate web services stack was introduced, many people in the open source community saw it as an attempt to recapture the web, making it complex [...]