I still believe that the two most promising developments for software applications in the last couple of years are AJAX webapps and Eclipse RCP applications. AJAX provides a 90% solution that’s good enough for most people if done right. RCP allows the flexibility of designing applications to work together and build off of each other. [...]
Archive for August, 2005
Why are large companies so slow?
When I was in school, my friends and I found an interesting relationship. It’s pretty obvious, but I think it’s worth discussing. The speed at which a group of people moves is inversly related to the size of the group. In the college setting this involved deciding what to do on a Saturday night, but [...]
Finding new sources of content.
One of the things I’ve most enjoyed since leaving school is being able to peruse the book stores and libraries for interesting topics. Since I’ve left UofM I actually feel that the rate that I’ve been studying and learning has increased dramatically. I try to make it to the book store at least once a [...]
RSS is great
I’ve really taken to using RSS on the web. When I find interesting sources of information, something that I feel might produce future interesting tidbits, I always look for an rss feed. Lately it’s become much more likely that you’ll be able to find a feed. Then I’ll add the feed to my bloglines page. [...]