Tested on IE7 and IE9. Here is a useful way to change the resolution of Internet Explorer if you need to test a webapp on a specific resolution. It is pretty useful if you do not want to change the OS settings and/or if you need to test several resolutions. In IE, you create bookmarklets … Read more
Not surprisingly, Google is dropping Wave. The official statement from a vice senior president of Google is here : http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html Well, I got an invite and even attended a demo once but never got the time or the desire to use it.
The site http://www.antiifcampaign.com/ aims to persuade developers to avoid using too many IFs in their code and to use “Object Oriented principles” instead. It seems like a nice effort, too bad there is not much to see in the website (only 1 article).
Despite attending a presentation with a live demo at the Paris JUG this week, I think this picture sums up well the idea I have about Google Wave at the moment. And that most people have. 😀
Last night, I attended a meeting about Terracotta and the presenter was the creator, Ari Zilka. Among his slides was what i found an interesting slide about Terracotta’s advantages : scalability and availability. I reproduced it here. Scalability is a term often used in the computing area. Writing data in memory is less scalable than … Read more
http://blip.tv/file/1061088
The coolest gift for geeks, the A0 poster of the 2008 Web Trend Map (841mm x 1189mm / 33.25in x 46.75in), is now up for grabs: http://informationarchitects.jp/web-trend-map-3-get-it/ http://informationarchitects.jp/start/ http://informationarchitects.jp/ia-trendmap-2007v2/
http://www.nakov.com/blog/2008/03/15/rejected-a-program-manager-position-at-microsoft-dublin-my-successful-interview-at-microsoft/ I was interviewed by Google a year ago or so, I kind of concurr with his point of view regarding Google’s recruitment process. ” It was like Olympiad in Informatics.” 😀