Archive for the ‘Intertubes’ Category

Google enters the battle

April 8th, 2008

Found on the new Google App Services blog :
Google App Engine gives you access to the same building blocks that Google uses for its own applications, making it easier to build an application that runs reliably, even under heavy load and with large amounts of data.
Now, where have I heard this one before?

Joel on Software, OK. Joel on Web Standards? Meh.

March 18th, 2008

I am a fan of Joel (of Joel on Software fame). Hell, I even bought two of his books.
Still, his latest post regarding IE8 standards support is, to put it succinctly, lame, what with the contrived examples about martian headphones et al.
I just don’t understand what the whole problem about some pages being broken on […]

I can has Wordpress 2.5?

March 12th, 2008

Wordpress 2.5, the new version that was due on March 10 seems to have slipped its’ deadline.
Nothing official on the WordPress blog yet, but according to a post on Planet Wordpress there are code quality problems at the moment and the new release date is 3/17/2008.
Just a week more then. Nice. Although the lack of […]

Facebook, the Web 2.0 revenge of the office idiot…

January 9th, 2008

Every office has one.  
The guy that mails you tasteless jokes about blondes? The one who forwards chain letters about getting money for forwarding emails? The girl in logistics that lets you all know about the latest pop quiz she found online? The goofy guy in management that loves to send lolcats? The one responsible for […]

A Questionable Article From a Questionable writer?

November 25th, 2007

Tony Celeste reports for Tom’s Guide:
This is something I never thought I’d hear myself say - or maybe I should say, see myself type - about an Apple operating system: Mac OSX Leopard was released before it was ready. This operating system needed more testing on more systems with more hardware, and especially, more software […]