was it worth it?
Now that Vista is finally the big question in everyone's mind is: Was it worth the wait?
I personally think not. It looks to me like Microsoft playing catch-up with OSX and Unix/Linux(GNOME/KDE).
We will find out sooner or later.
I was reading Business 2.0 yesterday and found an article about a company called Numenta. They have apparently developed software that allows computers to learn. It is powered by an algorithm that allows the machine to learn through experience like a child growing up. It is a very interesting project and definitely worth checking out.
I'm sick of everyone saying that ruby is taking over PHP. Well, I went out and found some graphs and I won't bore you with my insight (until the end). Instead enjoy this comparison of PHP, PERL, Ruby, and Python.
Looks to me like PHP is killing Ruby. I'm am just going to say that I am indeed a PHP developer but I have used rails every so often and must concur that PHP is better suited for the Web than Ruby. Also the spike in Ruby projects and small increase in PHP projects is probably do to the fact that the Rails framework is new and the loyal Rubyists are using it.
Just my opion.
I stumbled across stikkit.com a while ago. It is a service that intergates all your calander and TODO stuff together and allows you to email yourself to dos, calander events, and Contacts. It is a very easy to use program and it being actively developed in Ruby(I personally think PHP would have been a better choice).
Go ahead and Try It
The web 2.0 revolution has failed or has it?
I really have to disagree. I don't see the web 2.0 "revolution" as a revolution but as a process of advancement. After the dot com bubble burst the internet was out of the limelight but was still very much used across the world and was still being actvely developed. "web 2.0" is not a revolution but more of a gradual change and advancement.
It's a Firefox based browser. It calls it self the 'Social Browser'. Its called Flock. Is it that great? Mostly.
The browser is very stable and has a decent user base. Its corporate end has had a few stumbles with people leaving and replacing its top execs. The browser it self is good because of its support for CSS, JavaScript. The stuff that powers Web 2.0. Well IE has always had mediocre support and Firefox better support. In comparison the Flock browser is great. But does it really matter? Most Web 2.0 sites are designed to work with Firefox in the first place...
Anyone got an invite for the Venice project?
PM me that you have one and ill send you my email
THX
When they announced the iPhone I was shocked. By two things. One the name and two it actually happened. The name was formally used in a VoIP phone from Cisco. The iPhone is amazing. Go look at it it is the most amazing phone I have ever seen. It has a multi-touch display so that you can do two things at once with your finger without have to alternate which is on the screen. It also runs Mac OSX, which is amazing. It has an interface that seems to be a cross between OS X, the Wii menu, and the PSP menu. It has support for widgets, which is great. My favorite thing about the iPhone though is that it runs Safari. Thus it show the web page as it would show in safari on your iMac Core 2 Duo!
Netvibes has been around for a while now but take a minute and think about what Netvibes and it's rivals have done for the Internet as a whole. For those who haven't been paying much attention lately, Netvibes is a customizable portal much like protopage and Google Homepage. The portal unofficially died when the dot-com bubble burst. So whats so great about Netvibes? Netvibes is a twist on the portal idea, Netvibes lets the users create modules that other Netvibes user can use. These modules include GMail, RSS reader, sticky notes, and a lot more, some created by users and some by the Netvibes staff. What really makes Netvibes different is it lets you stay in one place and check out whether or not something is worth viewing or not, if it is you just fly away to that site.
