Many Java developers I know are quick to discount .NET as just the latest marketing hyperbole coming out of Redmond, Washington, the home of Microsoft. This attitude is unfortunate, because .NET may be the best thing Java could hope for in order to stabilize its own status as a development platform leader.

Something to think about: now that Java has long-term viability thanks to .NET, how will that be advantageous for Sun? I think Sun should stick to what it doesn't suck at, namely making Unix servers. Long term though, I don't think they have a prayer.
6:51:26 PM    comment   

Forbes disses initial GPRS roll-out in U.S. via practical anecdotal use: my friend and colleague Steve Manes demos VoiceStream's new 3G GPRS service and walks away unimpressed.

6:17:24 PM    comment   

Finally, some coverage to challenge Global Warming pseudo-science. Hopefully, some articles challenging "alternative" energy camp will be forthcoming.
6:10:59 PM    comment   

Dennis Boyle, senior design engineer at IDEO. His mission: To make high-tech simple. "People don't want to read a manual. They don't want something confusing that makes them look dumb," he says. "What regular people want is a product that does a few things really well." [courtesy of Tomalak's Realm]
4:19:36 AM    comment   

"It's a continuum, it's been leading to Web services for a long time," he said of software development. "If you look at the history of software industry, it's been leading to Web services."

Winer is known as the man who first developed XML RPC (remote procedure call) in partnership with Microsoft in 1998, the result of which became the Web services standard SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) Version 1.1.

For Winer, a seminal moment in understanding the concept of linking software components dynamically with scripting languages came in 1983. Bill Gates espoused the principle of putting APIs on application components in favor of monolithic applications that combine multiple functions, Winer explained.
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