There’s been a number of predictions made about technology for 2008, and of course a list of disappointments for the past year. Considering that no ones really takes any of them very seriously, then why not add my own :-) Here’s my prediction:2008 will be the year that Office Business Applications go mainstream*. And by Office Business Applications (OBAs) I’m interested...
An interesting decision by our new Australian Government to put in place mandatory opt-out filtering on Australian ISPs. Not that I particularly mind, since I've never really been worried about campaigning for free speech etc, etc, and I think protecting children from porn is probably a good idea. (Note: the filtering is only supposed to be to schools and houses – not businesses) But...
A surprising move in some ways, but interesting because it may have been more political than technical. I don't know the details, and I don't what the best technical solution for Yahoo is in this case; but I do know that 'the best tool for the job' is often ignored – I've seen it plenty of times. Yahoo maps is here.
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Why? Because it's handy.
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What's interesting about Knol (screenshot here), is not the concept (good to see Google playing catchup for a change), but the concerns being raised. A step to far? What are you talking about – they've got a long way to go yet I'm sure. And please don't give me that don't be evil = 51% righteous line…
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Amazon has unveiled yet another really cool web offering, this time their SimpleDB web service. As many have observed already the beauty is not in the functionality (it is very simple after all – how did they come up with that name?) but the scalability. And cost. So cheap. As Dave notes, much venture capital raising these days is simply to cater for advanced infrastructure. The rules are...
I popped this on the home page of my site last week, but forgot to link to it here. From my site: The recently released Volta CTP is an example of how Microsoft is helping desktop client developers build web applications. Promoted as a 'tier splitting' technology, the compiler helps spread out the application to client and server tiers, tied together with Volta created 'glue'...
Plenty of blogs about this little baby, but Scott's has some nice piccys. I want one, but I don't really think I'd use it… or is this one of those situations where we look back and wonder how we ever did with out it before…(a la the mobile phone)?
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Another CodePlex project, this time a set of assemblies to add functionality to Microsoft's recently released MVC functionality in the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview. Go get it at . Speaking of MVC goodness, Angus McDonald gave us an internal training session on MVC details at Elcom yesterday. He blogs about MVC here. (via Jeffrey Palermo with Eric Hexter) Technorati Tags: MVC, Jeffrey...
Summary: Flex is to Adobe as Silverlight is to Microsoft Silverlight is often referred to as Microsoft's version of Flash, however it is more correct to say it is Microsoft's version of Flex. You could say the following… Silverlight 1.0 = Flash Silverlight 2.0 = Flex [UPDATE: Silverlight 1.1 has been re-branded as Silverlight 2.0] Here's a very basic comparison of Flex and...