Software

90 posts filed under Software.

February 5, 2003

Java development impractical?
I’d like to hear more on this, but according to Lockergnome, “Sun’s own engineers find developing common software applications in Java impractical…”
January 23, 2003

Balanced Scorecard
Interesting quote from DM Review Magazine: “The industrial age has been replaced by the knowledge age, with transformational effects on the economy and the workplace…”
January 21, 2003

Macromedia Contribute
I spent a few minutes today runing throught the product tour of Macromedia’s new light-wieght CMS application Contribute and I have to say that for $99 it seems to be very …
January 15, 2003

Taxomita: web-based authoring application
This isn’t released yet, but … “Taxomita is a web-based authoring application that lets you create distributed, hierarchical, faceted metadata, and use it to index any page on the …
January 9, 2003

DOM Level 2 Recommendation
Finally … “The World Wide Web Consortium today released the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification as a W3C Recommendation.”
January 7, 2003

Textism Textpattern
Dean Allen of Textism writes, “Textpattern is a publishing system designed for those who want to write for the web. Its bells and whistles are many, but it is above all very simple …
January 1, 2003

Dave Winer is looking for a new job
From Scripting News: “I’m going to get a new job with a new title, and it’s going to be quite different from being the CEO of a commercial software company.”
December 16, 2002

Control a PC from your DVD player?
Ok, this sounds very cool … Sonicblue’s new DVD player will be able to access content on PCs, such as photos, music and videos, via an Ethernet and wireless network connection. …
December 6, 2002

Script locally, publish globally
Good article about Groove GWS by Jon Udell of InfoWorld writes: “Enterprises are held together by scripting, in ways that we sometimes don’t like to admit. But there’s no shame in …
October 31, 2002

Brian Kernighan in Princeton
Brian Kernighan (Unix, C, Bell Labs fame) has set “to demystify computing for a classroom full of liberal arts undergraduates at Princeton.” Damn … that would be a cool course to …