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May 5

The future of Flash as a platform #

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WebMonkey’s Scott Gilbertson posts on the future of Flash: As browser support for HTML5 grows and the video codec situation improves, the new lingua franca...

Apr 9

Apple’s kneecaps competitors and partners #

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I’ve been transfixed by Apple’s announcement yesterday that applications developed using translation or compatibility layers need not apply for inclusion on the App Store.

Mar 15

Apple’s restrictive platform #

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Here’s Tim Bray (now officially part of the loyal opposition) on the iPhone: The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and...

Feb 24

Twitter is migrating from MySQL to Cassandra #

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For those of you keeping track of the trend of applications moving from SQL databases to dumber forms of storage, Twitter has decided to move...

Feb 19

Extreme agility #

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Github developer Scott Chacon describes their development process: At GitHub we don’t have a project tracker or todo list – we just all work on...

Feb 10

For people who want to pay attention #

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But the Net is the greatest listening engine ever devised. These days anyone can choose, with its help, to be well-informed.

Jan 28

Is the iPad the harbinger of doom for personal computing? #

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In 2002, there was a lot of fear of Microsoft’s trusted computing platform, Palladium.

Dec 21

RSS readers are for professionals #

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A lot of people are wondering about the relevance of RSS readers these days.

Nov 11

The search engine confessional #

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Everybody’s posting about this, but if you haven’t gotten a chance to play, definitely do so.

Oct 20

RMS opposes Oracle acquisition of MySQL #

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RMS and some other open source advocates are urging the EC to prevent Oracle from taking over MySQL.

Aug 7

Anil Dash on Google Wave #

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My initial reaction upon reading about Google Wave is that while it was catnip for geeks, it had a funny smell about it.

Jul 24

Maker’s schedule versus manager’s schedule #

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Paul Graham explains on how people who make things must manage their time to maximize their productivity: When you’re operating on the maker’s schedule, meetings...

Jul 14

Hate Driven Development #

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I’ve used the term a few times, and now it’s time to officially coin it: Hate Driven Development.

Jun 23

Notes on Say Everything #

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I’ve plowed into Scott Rosenberg’s new history of blogging, Say Everything and finished the first half of the book today.

Apr 20

MySQL founder on Oracle’s buying Sun #

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Michael Widenius, the founder of MySQL, has posted his thoughts on the acquisition of Sun by Oracle.

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