Is it Good Time to Buy Adobe?
At last week’s annual meeting, Oracle’s top dog told shareholders, “Acquisitions that we have been looking at for some time may now be more attractive.” That made me start thinking the good old topic again, is anybody buying Adobe?
If look at Adobe’s stock in for 2008, you would find that Adobe was very hard to […]
4 Things Bad About PureMVC
Tech Per has another post to take a in-depth look at one of the ActionScript based framework, PureMVC. This time the post listed 4 things he hates about PureMVC. “hate” might be a strong word for a framework but I got his points. Framework is a tough business to get in only because it just […]
Banned iPhone Apps and Workarounds
That Apple has been banning iPhone apps from its App Store is no news to you. I myself have made a passing mention of it a couple of weeks ago.
1. Andrew Mason’s “Pull My Finger”, a silly, funny if you like, app that makes fart noises was rejected on grounds of limited utility. Andrew has […]
History of RIA
The history of RIAs has been at the back of my mind for quite sometime now. I was hoping to learn a little about it and share it with you, but I failed miserably. I confess that my quests have only been shallow googlings. The inane investigation invariably raised another associated curiosity: History of the […]
ReadAIR Not Yet a Reader
After reading several positive reviews about this new way of reading feeds in Google Reader, I installed ReadAIR, tried it, and uninstalled it before starting this review. I found the post reading too long as I wrote it, and so changed it from a mostly negative review to a list of various issues that I […]
Developers Care About Financial Market
The financial market melting down is on news all of the world. Can we developers on main streets or code streets hide behind duel LCDs and IDEs? We shouldn’t and we can’t.
Here is a blog posting on NYT could give you a full view of what’s going on. Forget about the news and those after-fact-wise-ass […]
Google Android Vs Apple iPhone
It has been announced that Google's Android phone with T-Mobile, code-named the Google "Dream Phone", will be unveiled on 23rd September. Eric Zeman of the Information Week confirms the news; today, he received an invitation to attend the press conference.
Will Android become a threat to Apple's iPhone? I agree that this sounds like a silly [...]
Google Chrome has Microsoft Gene
At least part of it, some important parts though.
As you know and Google disclosed, there are many open source codes used within Google Chrome. It turns out that includes Windows Template Library (WTL).
WTL is a C++ library for Win32 development and is kind of like MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes), but a lot more lightweight. It [...]
One Week Later: Chrome is not ready
I've tried Google Chrome for a week. Everyday during the week I tried to exclusively use just Chrome for my browsing part of living but failed. Reaching the week end, I find less and leas reasons, beside curiosity and mental attachment to the name "Google", to continue using Chrome.
Here are what I don't like:
It was [...]
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