Announcing… The BlogBridge Service ;-)
Here’s a sneak preview of something a little bit different. As of the next beta, we will be running a BlogBridge service off our BlogBridge.com site. Initially all it will do ...
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July 2004
Will Wikis Rule the World?
I was recently asked by a VC friend of mine what I thought of a certain Wiki product. I thought my response to him (with specific product and people references removed) might be interesting. He asked me, “Have you kept track of what’s going on in Wiki-land, and what do you think?” Here’s my **answ...
Read more →Mac OSX not easy to use!
Years ago I was a hardcore Mac fanatic. I was one of the creators of a long-gone early Macintosh application called Jazz. I programmed on a Lisa in 68000 assembly language. As I said, a long time ago 🙂 Anyway, for years I’ve been a PC guy, but still with a warm spot in my heart for Mac. Recently we ...
Read more →[JAVA ONE]Sun answers my question
In severalprevious postsI’ve wondered aloud: “I can see that Sun spends a ton of money on Java. It must be astronomical. What’s the strategy behind that? How do they make money on that?” Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s President and COO, [...
Read more →Scary Software, Part Deux
Continuing my complaintsabout Java Web Start, as if the message displayed on Windows under Java 1.5 isn’t bad enough, here’s what a slightly older version of Java displays on Linux:  just click here.
Java Web Start Sucks Eggs
I’ve written about this before, and after all it is fairly (no, very) esoteric. Java Web Start is Java’s approach to installation and distribution and updating of Java desktop applications. It’s a really nice idea but it just is too full of problems. With a small project like BlogBridge, I guess it saves us some work, and so we use it, warts and all. Anyway, here is a bit that I found that articulatesin great gory detail all the problems. I concur and I suffer with you.
BlogBridge Beta 2 almost ready
Well we’ve been busy little beavers and are getting ready to release BlogBridge Beta 2. It has quite a few nifty new features! I will write a little more about it tomorrow or Monday. We’ve done a total overhaul of the content of the web site (the look/design is unchanged.) Take a look at our Brand New Web Site An important change in opening the kimono a bit more is that you will find a direct link from our web site to install and run the beta. You are of course invited to join the beta group, but if you just want to play, go for it. Click here to download and run BlogBridge.
Oddpost Sold to Yahoo!
Dave Winer comments on the sale of OddPost to Yahoo. I’ve been an avid OddPost fan for a while and I am glad to see them succeed. It’s an impressive tour the force, an existence proof that you can build quite a nice UI in a browser. One critical detail whic...
Read more →Technical tweak to this blog
In tracking down a ‘bug’ in BlogBridge I discovered that my RSS feed for this blog has abbreviated items, that is, without html and limited to a certain number of words. That’s not what I wanted so with this new posting I should have full items. To test this, this line is bold - And this line is bulletted
Downloadable Car Horn Sounds!?
Did you know that you (or your teenager) can buy cool new ring tones for their cell phone? They cost a buck or two and are quite the rage, especially in countries other than the US 🙂 You probably knew this. Did you know that this buck or two is actually only good for a month or two of use of the ri...
Read more →[JAVAONE] User Interface Design
Someone whose oppinion I listen to, Karsten Lentzch, recommends these books about user interface design: [Jeff Johnson: GUI Bloopers: Don’ts and Do’s for Designers](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558605827/qid=1088740910/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-8578301-0353756?v=glance&s...
Read more →[GEEK/JAVAONE] Java Web Start – still falling short
Java Web Start is a piece of Java platform that’s meant to ease the deployment and updating of Java applications. It’s a great idea, but disappointingly implemented. There were several JavaOne sessions about Web Start. There are some great enhancements coming in Java 5.0 (1.5) A semi-miraculous JA...
Read more →June 2004
[JAVAONE] Scott McNealy Keynote
I had never heard him speak – He’s a lot of fun to listen to – funny and with a sense of his audience. This was a shorter keynote then yesterday. This wasn’t the kind of rah-rah motivational speech that I was expecting. He did drive home a few points, clearly showing what he was most interested ...
Read more →[JAVAONE] What’s going on with Java version numbers?
What’s going on with Java version numbers? There was Java 2 (where the version numbers were 1.3 and 1.4) and the Tiger release just coming out is 1.5. The release after Tiger is going to be called 5.0?! What is going on? Talk about sowing confusion. Not that marketing ever was a Sun strength!
Is the world ready for a replacement to Outlook?
Everyone loves to beat up on Microsoft’s Outlook. Including me! See Outlook Haters Anyone? and Outlook 2003 Rant. It is true that Outlook is a bit of an...
Read more →[JAVAONE] Visiting the Java tribe
I am here at JavaOne and living among a very different crowd than I’ve been in lately. It’s the gathering of the Java faithful, and there’s a different feel here compared with the world I come from, the Windows/Microsoft world. Here are some of my field notes and random impressions. The keyboards on Sun computers have different spacings and I keep making mistakes in typing. The mouse has two buttons and no wheel. But the right button does something different from what I am used to. And boy, just taking a screen shot of something, some process crashed and dumped on my screen. (The computer didn’t crash, just the process…) …more later
[JAVAONE] JavaOne Keynote
As you know I am attending the JavaOne conference. I jotted down my key takeaways during the keynote for myself, which I thought I’d share here. The keynote featured several Sun execs, particularly Jonathan Schwarts, their President and COO. Take Away 1: Java as a platform is incredibly ubiquit...
Read more →What’s a blog anyway?
I am away from home, at my home in Curacao for a reunion of Salas folks from around the world. I saw an childhood friend of mine, Raul, who asked me ‘So what’s a blog, anyway’? I was taken aback, because, what would Raul be doing, reading my blog, and especially with the rather ‘odd’ image that I le...
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