Mobile InYerFace:GUI Integration
Because of its secrecy iPhone is many things depending on the beholder, their interests, and desires versus where Mr. S. Jobs wants to place it in the gadgetosphere. So there has been much speculation – I will take one of the best, Tom Yagers column at Infoworld. He is intereting the Jobsian tea leafs to […]
Flex 3:First Look
I have had a chance to download Moxie – or Adobe Flex 3 and see where that puts Adobe in the RIA and GUI Integration sweepstakes. Remember GUI Integration takes users well beyond the goal of allowing Rich media like audio, video, 3D and animations to be a part of their presentations. GUI Integration says […]
Apple Does Windows Safari; Microsoft does….
Expression Suite on the Mac. The specs below are interesting for two reasons: Expression
CSS Rubicon
With the development of CSS3 with its many media rules as well as much enhanced text, selector and box formating rules, CSS will become Redmonds Rubicon. Microsoft and the IE team is taking a lot of heat for not delivering on all CSS standard from nearly ten years ago in contrast with just about very […]
Bell Canada Takeover
All the buzz on Bay Street and the financial nooks and crannies of Toronto is the bubbling rumors on the private equity based takeover of Bell Canada(aka BCE). Of course shareholders will be protected and minority interests will be respected – and a Blackstone-like billion dollar payday is less likely given the required participation of […]
eWeek Censorship
I have written for Ziff Davis, CMP, and a number of other technical publications so you can imagine my surprise when I saw the following when I dared to suggest that Microsofts SilverLight was less then completely Cross Browser and Cross Platform but which Darryl Taft so blandly and blindly repeats over and over again […]
Sun Sets a Standard
Sun has set a lot of standards, Open standards. That is a point well worth remembering. But with the new ZFS-Zettabyte File System with its colossal storage capacity, advanced journaling, flashpoint and security features, Sun is also setting a standard for innovation in primary computing. Here is Infoworlds take on the ZFS – “It’s not […]
Visual Studio: Eclipsed
Many in the Java community would argue that Eclipse was designed to put Suns Java development tools in their place. But for strictly Java Development, NetBeans and Java Studio Creatorhas lead Eclipse for both breadth and depth of features as well as Java innovations. Even with many third parties adding Open but often commercial extensions […]
Missing Links: Showstoppers in Software
In development there is a term for a missing feature or bug plagued service that will be the crucial factor which will threaten the overall acceptance of the software – its called a showstopper. Well now that ISVs are really assembling architectures – collections of software and service offerings that have to be finely tuned […]
Web 2.0 Gets the Gears
There is a Buffalo New York autodealer that has these annoying commercials which consist of the dealer screaming back to his pitchmans every second line – THIS IS HUGE! So you will pardon me if I say the following about the following: THIS IS HUGE! Now why would Googles announcement of an Open API for […]
Cold Fusion 8: Backend Integration for Frontend Goodness
Application servers have become commoditized. First, there are several very good Open Source Application Servers from Apache Geronimo plus Tomcat through to JBoss, Jonas, Resin and Zope among others. Second, major commercial software vendors give their app servers away free – Microsoft has made its app server features a part of operating system in the […]
Nail on the Head
Jim Rapoza at eWeek has hit the nail on the head commenting about the Microsofts War on Open Source. This is one of those articles that is like Al Gores new book, The Assualt on Reason – they take your breath away with their concise lucidity. And of course there are echoes between what Microsoft […]
Mcrosoft vs Google:eWeek Again
eWeek is at it again with a provocative slideshow on who will prevail – Microsoft or Google?
WaSP:Playing by Redmond’s Rules
WaSP – The Webs Standards Project has been supposedly fighting for Web standards from the early 1990s. Now why do I say supposedly. Well for the Great Winter that was no updates to the IE browser and no updates in the use of Web Standards in Microsoft’s other Web based applications and tools like Visual […]
WindowsBuilder Pro
Instantiations has Windows BuilderPro GUI design software for Eclipse and NetBeans. This designer is as good if not better than NetBeans Matisse. It also puts Eclipse on par with Netbeans and CodeGear JBuilder in terms of overall GUI development. Another result, Java is now part of at least 3 development IDEs that can vie well […]
Web 3.0 for Real
eEweek has an excellent slideshow on nextgen IT infrastructure that will change Enterprise IT profoundly. This slideshow is well worth the look see. First, it marks the change back from PC centric IT to data center or more correctly network centric IT. Second, the cumulative effect of XML-based Web services, proliferation of smart devices and […]
Coders Wishes for new GUI Generators
Okay the next generation of GUI is almost completely out of the gate – and each system has brought more new syntax and semantics to learn: Adobe has MXML and ActioinScript3(major update); Microsoft has XAML and one of a variety of Silverlight scripting tools, and Sun has JavaFX with JavaFX Scripting. All of them have […]
Data Workflow Integration
The database world is rushing headlong into the business of utilizing semi-structured and unstructrured data. This is happening in the BI-Business Intelligence Domain, Product Warranty support, and various regulatory compliance efforts. These are often the source of of the highest growth in databanks and data sources. Here is the spectrum of data characteristics as one […]
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Premium: First Impressions
Well I finally relented and upgraded to Adobe CS3 Premium Suite – and after paying all the taxes I was relieved to see my account down nearly $800 for the upgrade. So I have been working frantically with almost all of Premium Suite such that I have some notable First Impression evaluations. Note again these […]
GUI Integration: JavaFX
Well wouldnt you know it – after asking for Javas entry into the GUI Integration sweepstakes (Adobe Apollo and Microsoft Silverlight are current contenders), Sun has announced at Java One its entry – JavaFX: The above is a screenshot of coding JavaFX using NetBeans 5.5 and following the set of tutorials on site here (a […]
SaaS Considerations
Ephraim Schwartz at Infoworld and now Peter Coffee at Salesforce.com have been making some pretty persuasive arguments for the the viability of SaaS – Software as a Service.Even I have succumbed in part to the SaaS siren song. I think of it as Managed Hosting of your apps on steroids. Think of SaaS as offering […]
Linux Bungles as Vista Clunks
Joe Wilcox at Microsoft-Watch has described the Edsel that is Vista sales. This would appear to be the opportunity of the decade for Desktop Linux. You would think that the Linux troopers, aware of the inherent weaknesses in Vista: – Vista requires 2-4 times the hardware resources to get equivalent response time as Linux desktops […]
Mix07: A Directed Conversation
Microsoft bills its takeover of Las Vegas hotspots for three days as Mix07 – a 72 hour conversation. Conversation, n. 1)colloquial discourse; 2)oral exchange of ideas and observations; 3)informal dialogue. A conversation means it takes two to tango – ideas of equals are exchanged; and no one party sets the agenda of what is being […]
“Free” Software Again
Joe Wilcox at Microsoft-Watch is taking a lot of heat from his readership for daring to suggest that Microsoft prices for free not out of benevolence for its users but to attack its competitors. I am doing a series of articles about “free” database software on theOpenSourcery.coms – and what readers appear to miss are […]
AJAX/JavaScript Security
Reading in the AJAX blogs, one of the topics that has become tiresome to pro-AJAXians is the need to defend AJAX and JavaScript against security threats. Their essential arguments are a)to date, very few attacks have used JavaScript as vector; b)JavaScript when coded properly is secure(though they concede it is possible for novices to improperly […]
The Demise of InfoWorld
One could see it coming – issues of InfoWorld down to 60 pages, advertisers disappearing from the recent issues except for IBM and Microsoft. Now rest assured, InfoWorld will still be available on the Web and many of the same excellent writers like Tom Yager and Ephraim Schwartz will still be found there. But make […]
Two IT Press Best
Two of the best writers and commentators on the IT scene have left the story and deadline dooms behind moving on in early 2007. Peter Coffee at eWeek and Jon Udell of Infoworld both brought brightness, curiosity and insight to the computing world. At a time when the IT Trade Press appears to becoming docile […]
Vista: Anti-People Ready II
Joe Wilcox over at Microsoft-Watch is watching Vista sales very closely and what he sees from a variety of sources is that Vista – after an initial inventory bulking up in the marketplace by OEMs – is doing very poorly. The most salient fact – after the Microsoft Vista marketing blitz consumers intentions on buying […]
Mac Sense and Nonsense
Its downright plagiarism – I am “borrowing” this title from Tom Yagers excellent article of the same title over at InfoWorld. This is a superb article which helps delineate why Apple will not steal significant market share from el Bloato, Vista, despite the latters price, peripherals driver nightmares and software compatibility give aways. At least […]
Craplets!
Joe Wilcox at Microsoft-Watch.com is really hitting a stride taking on real issues – the latest is Craplets. Craplets are the “free trial” software that is loaded on your PC whether you want it or not when you buy it. As you can see from the coverage by Joe at Microsoft-Watch, the interests of Microsoft, […]
GUI Integration: 2 Contenders Face-off
It has been all the buzz of this beginning of the week – the GUI/media market gloves are off between Adobe and Microsoft. The two vendors are just itching to trade blows, sort of like NHL playoff players ready to skirmish and so here they come: CNN.Money – in a Sunday announcement Microsoft Silverlight is […]
GUI Integration: Embeddeds
In our GUI Integration article it was implied that the leading software vendors would be from the Java or Flash camps. Let me set the record straight here: There are a number of embedded software vendors that know the business of delivering highly practical GUI based data and animation interfaces to any device and any […]
GUI Integration
All the chatter is about Data Integration in the IT market – and truth be told, Data Integration deserves all the ink it can get. There are some tough problems here as we shall discuss on the review side of this website. But really there are two other Integration components motoring along in the IT […]
Small item:Adobe to Embrace Mac Again
Adobe PR had a lot of fanfare over what would appear to be a small item: Adobe Premier Pro, the top of the line video editor tool from Adobe, would be available on the Mac. What ? I thought all Adobe software ran on the Mac. One of the attractions of the Macromedia buyout by […]
XenSource Virtualization
I was looking to do some virtualization testing. So I took a look at the new XenSource 3.2 free trial download and was prepared to dual boot into my 750GB HP desktop running Windows Media XP. Then I ran across the following: XenServer has two main parts: *the XenServer Host, consisting of a Xen-enabled Linux […]
Fast Copycats
Computers have been identified as idiot savants, fragile in their logical omnipotence while being oblivious to, let alone able to respond to any simple social cues. Yet computers like the Borgs of Star Wars continue to assimilate, absorb and alter greater swaths of human and social life. Ostensibly computers act as aids or economic agents […]
2 XML Birds
It is always a pleasure when you can kill two birds with one stone. That is what happened recently when I was reviewing XML software tools to solve some XSLT coding problems. I needed a tool that couls speed up processing into reports some of the large XML files that were getting delivered by the […]
Chaos at the Top
What do the Linux Open Source Community and Microsoft currently have in common ? Chaos at the Top. It may simply be a reflection of the times. There is ever less slack and therefore room for error especially in technically driven organizations. James Gleicks book Faster catches the ZeitGeist. (c)JBSurveyer 2007 If you liked this, […]
Mono Visual Basic
Novell is promoting Mono and its Visual Basic Connection on Linux. Full Visual Basic 8 syntax is now delivered through Mono onto the Linux platform. And this has happened despite the fact that Novell sponsored Mono got little extra support from the Novell-Microsoft special relationship other than some counseling on the compiler design this past […]
Adobe Play Machiavelli
In a wide ranging interview with CNET.com, ADOBE CEO Bruce Chizen, identified Google and a horde of Web 2.0 startups as his major competition over the next few years and downplayed the competition with Microsoft – desite the fact that Infopath, XMP, Metro and WCF/E puts a bullseye on Adobes Acrobat line of PDF products. […]
Grinding Open Source Down
The commercial software vendors are starting to grind down the “For-profit” open source variants. The trick is simple. Commercial vendors have many more alternatives for their software revenue streams – the same service and support streams of Open Source but also licensing , runtime or software assurance sales streams. So that is exactly what Oracle […]
BEA: Designers Tools
I have just featured some of the many graphic design tools announced by Adobe this past week … and many have a graphic and designer flair to them. But almost in a quiet fashion, middleware and emerging SOA powerhouse BEA has marshaled together an impressive line up of system design tools: BEA AqualLogic BPM Suite […]
Adobe Uses its Own Tools
Adobe does what some software vendors have trouble doing – using their own software in their presentations and announcements. Here is the CS3 NewYork City Demo: But also look on the Adobe website starting here for how much Adobe is using its own tools to demo its new tools. I think Microsoft calls this “eating […]
Adobe Creative Suite: Development Impact
Adobe is having a huge coming out party for its Creative Suite of products. And what a show! There are over 20 new products and bundles being announced. A lot will be the first looks at what the merger of Macromedia and Adobe will bring to the market place. But of even more impact to […]
Fireworks CS3: Most Improved
In the new announcements from Adobe of 20 new CS3 products and bundles, the most improved is Fireworks CS3. In the last update to Macromedia Studio, Fireworks was somewhat orphaned; but not this time around. Fireworks, which already has been very innovative about integrating bitmap and vector graphics, gets to carry that further along and […]
If You Read one Story this Spring…
If you read one Story this Spring on theOpenSourcery.com, do not miss out on the Adobe Apollo Alpha preview. Adobe is really throwing the gauntlet down on serious 6As RIA with its Apollo runtime engine. No other vendor appears to have the breadth and depth of Adobes ambitions. And the alpha runtime is very impressive. […]
Buying Customer Loyalty
Some argue that with its huge cash surplus, Microsoft should increase it dividends – but after a one time huge one last Fall; the company is out to buy customer loyalty. Check this one out. (c)JBSurveyer 2007 If you liked this, let others know: Slashdot Digg del.icio.us reddit newsvine Y! MyWeb
Linux on the Desktop II
One of the reasons beyond cost that Linux is finding a place on desktops is the simple fact that Linux can run on desktop and laptop machines that Windows simply cannot hope to run on – Windows XP needs a 1GHz 512MB in memory machine to run 2-3 apps well together. And Windows new Vista […]
Linux on the Desktop
Linux on the desktop continues to gain momentum. Shops that formerly would not consider Linux for desktops are starting to like the substantial savings possible using Open Office plus Linux for dramatically lower costs and hassles over Vista + Office 2007. The Walls Street Journal has picked up on the phenomenon as reporting on its […]
Development Toss Up
It must be March Madness – there is a development toss up going on right now as developers move away from single platform and proprietary towards not just Web 2.0 but broader any device 6As RIA-Rich Interface Applications. Smart shops are not stopping at the Web based or any OS Platform but are looking for […]