Archive for August, 2005

Working offline with AJAX

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

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 ...

Why are large companies so slow?

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

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 ...

Finding new sources of content.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

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 ...

RSS is great

Monday, August 1st, 2005

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 ...