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Gadget Geek Journey; Desintation 1: live.com

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Time to get serious on my resolutions. Well, at least one anyway; I'll start the waist shrinking/walking later. It's Thursday Geekout time!
Inspired by Robert Scoble's Podtech.net live.com gadget posting, and a general feeling that gadgets are where it is at for non-professional programmers like myself.
So, first port-of-call http://gallery.live.com/ then on to the Developer center
Decision time: [...]

Frankinstall Tweaking Ruby Mongrels

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

What a fun few days! I reported earlier I was in the midst of Ruby on Rails. The small project is coming along fine. Even though I could quickly build in Python or PHP, its time to learn and immerse myself in a new language - and more importantly, a new platform.
This platform is more [...]

First Writely Blog Post

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Having recently used Google Spreadsheets , and the better featured EditGrid : I thought it best to give Google's Writely a spin.
As a sidenote, I am continually impressed with EditGrid. The external Web data tool permits automated foreign exchange rate and stock market updating. Every minute or so, there is a [...]

App after App

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Interesting read about the future of Web Applications; and specifically their archetypes, by Matt Webb.
From application design, to application size, location and other bits.

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Our Valuable Virtual Meta-verse Future

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

In 1988 Mitchell Waite sent me a small paperback to read: Vernor Vinge's True Names. I was a mere, lowly Hypertalk programmer from Adelaide, South Australia. He was an important person.
This book has stuck in the neurons, and now the virtual is becoming real. It really goes to show how hard science fiction depicts a [...]

There goes that idea

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Boeing has announced they are shutting down their Connexion service. I wonder if the recent restrictions on carry on luggage, let alone the complexity of modern travel, has impacted their business plan.
Putting paid to my vision of future Business Travel.

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Laptops on a Plane

Friday, August 11th, 2006

The world is a dangerous place, with a whole bunch of eejits. Sadly, the impact of no laptops on planes will have a serious impact on business travel. It shouldn't, but it will.
Many senior executives use this "down time" to catch up on emails and sort out their presentations/spreadsheets/reports. For many, this time is [...]

Too Rainy for the Beach: off to educationau.edu.au

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Spent yesterday at the Education.au conference "So What's New", I asked myself - so exactly what is new? I must admit to slight symptoms of intellectual stockholm syndrome. Agreeing with all points of view and resulting in a mush of thoughts, and no opinion.
Is Web2.0 new? Relatively. Is the Web new? Is TCP/IP new? Are [...]

Acrobatic FeedJumbler Juggles Feeds

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Thanks to Mike for the pointer: FeedJumbler is the beez-kneez.
Put in multiple RSS Feeds, and out comes one feed.
Been looking for this for weeks!

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Largest Public Flex App: Australia: 1 vs. World: 0

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Adobe Flex 2.0 was announced in June 2006, and it's on my list of "things" to spend some quality time with over the next few months. Building something more interesting that flat web pages; with AJAX, Flex and WPF is a key "learning point" whilst offline.
RocketBoots, a strong supporter of Adobe and its technology have [...]

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