Brendan Eich had written some time back that Mozilla was looking to forge alliances with GNOME and other Open Source Projects to combat Longhorn. So looks like a meeting was held and the opensource community is gearing itself to combat Longhorn.
Somebody in office just pointed me to this paper by Watts S. Humphrey. Processes are very important to companies, but it really does not cover how an individual developer attempts the problem, the personal software process (PSP) provides software engineers a way to improve the quality, predictability, and productivity of their work. Should be worth trying it out. Also it can have a lot of parallels in the design process too...
Note: There may not be any more updates for at least three more weeks. I'm getting married, and will be off to a Robinson Crusoe island for a week or so after that, so catch up with you guys later...
Greg Gretsch of Sigma Partners ponders over it in this AlwaysOn article:
“Silicon Valley is suffering a brain drain that is just going to keep getting worse. Historically the valley has been the beneficiary of brain drains from around the world. The diasporas of China, India, Russia, and others all came to sunny California to start their companies and make their fortunes. Companies like Juniper, QLogic, Exodus, and Silicon Labs are among the hundreds of companies that have generated billions in sales and wealth started by the best and brightest from around the world. Now, some of those great minds are packing up and heading home.”
XML based definition of the UI in nothing new, but the problem is that there is no standard. There's XAML, XUL, WSUI and now even MXML...
Well according to this demo by Nik Khilnani of Funciton it is theoretically possible for the Flash to render the MXML on the client. Deng of course used to render XHTML and XFORMS but I've not heard anything about the project lately.
It would also be much faster to build applications using XML based UI definitions (I'm sure there would be those who disagree) and it may be a worthwhile exercise to explore if Flash really can be the rendering engine of choice...
Of course, ubiquity is what really what makes Flash an attractive proposition. 'Cause otherwise, there are already so many options available already (as the XUL aficionados will surely point out)
This news comes a bit too late, but I'm posting it in any case.
Jeremey Z in this post talks how Orkut is strategically important for Google
Makes a lot of sense...
OK now the extension. With GMail in the picture, now you can easily use the Orkut network for populating address books. And come too think of it, that is a lot of behavioral information that Google could potentially have access to.
All this of course translates to a whole lot of advertising $$$.
Hmn... so when are they going IPO?
Ok after the barrage of blog spam, it's now the task of spammers to blast us with spam. Over the last couple of days I've been getting multiple (in 100s) spam emails with subjects like 'Someone is interested in you,' 'Arrangement' and 'Surprise Invitation' which is forcing me to delete a lot of emails by just a simple scan. I may have missed a few legit emails in the process and in case you've written to me an not heard back in a while (I usually reply in a couple of days) then I'd urge you to use the contact section on my website, there is more chance of me reading mails sent using that interface...
Is this an ‘All Fool's Day’ joke???
According to this report Google is launching a free email service with 1 Gig of storage. Also Google's service, called "Gmail," will include a built-in search function that will let people search every e-mail they've ever sent or received.
Sounds too good to be true, especially considering that the news has broken out on April 1st ;)
