Engadget has a nice overview of the recent interview with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
(This got over shadowed a bit by the ColdFusion 8 launch!)
There are some great moments in the interview - talking about transferring data around on cassette tapes, 128k or memory, the GUI vs. DOS interfaces., Lotus 1-2-3… [...]
Today Google released Google Gears - and while it sounds neat…
Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs:
Store and serve application resources locally
Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness
Who is ‘offline’ any more? [...]
I installed ColdFusion 8 at lunch today and have been trying to get some of my old apps up and running.
One issue I ran into immediately was:
The names of user-defined functions cannot be the same as built-in ColdFusion functions.
The name isInstanceOf is the name of a built-in ColdFusion function
It appears there are some new functions [...]
There are lots of posts concerning the recent ComputerWorld article where the author claims ColdFusion is dead (along with Powerbuilder YES!).
Good discussions going on here:
Ray Camden
Mark Drew
David Fekke
Rob Brooks-Bilson
Rob Rohan
Now I agree articles like this are complete fluff - but I do think it says something about ColdFusion - why does it constantly show up [...]
This looks neat - Scratch is a “free programming tool that allows anyone to create their own animated stories, video games and interactive artworks“.
The site is getting hammered right now as this story was on Digg and the BBC site but it looks interesting, especially if you have kids. Abby loves [...]
Geez. I must have beaten everyone back from the meeting. Just sat through 3 hours of a great CF8 presentation by Tim Buntel (and another guy but I suck at names, sorry)…
I’m really excited about CF8 - I had read most of the other posts concerning the new features but it’s nice seeing them [...]
Last night I put on a new rear Dunlop D607 and was itching to try it out today. Woke up and it was raining. But around 11 it looked like there was going to be a gap in the showers so I suited up and headed out. I took it easy [...]
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