According to this headline, Microsoft has “edged” Google in Web 2.0 services for developers. The report being discussed is from Evans Data, a technology research group.
Microsoft and eBay score unexpectedly high marks with developers, according to Evans.
You decide, the report can be found here. But I can’t quite grasp what sort of survey panel [...]
Bill,
Please run Microsoft again. It needs you.
I think you may need it too. Your recent comments are not very helpful.
I was kind of hoping for something more profound and insightful than “We can expect that the variety and quality of software will accelerate in the years ahead.”
You used to say cool stuff like “Be [...]
According to Gartner and some industry folks that are “in the know,” Microsoft is in for some dire straights ahead because of the failure for Vista to take off as expected and the way things are unfolding in the internet and application development space.
Kind of like I’ve be saying for the past few months (here [...]
Hilarious code comedy from Rails Jedi
My favorite:
“Viewstate is back. Now new and improved on top of Rails. acts_as_aspdotnet overrides form_tag to put a hidden variable that contains loads of crucial processing data on every postback that will fill your server pipes with more glorious bandwidth.”
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/03/bringing-cloud-with-you.html
Google has been rocking lately with updates to Google Apps. Every week there seems to be more news coming out of Mountain View. The latest news, hot of the press from Google’s Official Blog, is more evidence that this technology might just turn out to be as disruptive to Microsoft as anything else happening right [...]
I picked this up from Slashdot today.
I am still a huge Microsoft fan, I think that they blazed the trail for personal computing in a way that has helped thousands of developers and millions of users in the early ’90’s through the start of the “Web 2.0″ era.
However, as I mentioned in my post about [...]
I’m a Jets fan, but the NJ Giants are big in my neck of the woods - and the only team I dislike more than the Red Sox is the Patriots (sorry to my pals in Boston but this is football… :).
I am seeing things in the marketplace that make me believe that Google will in fact out flank Office and disrupt Microsoft to a degree that few expected just a year ago.
First of all, there is a drum beating in the media for an epic battle between Mister Softie and Google. The article this [...]
If the soap4r gem (version 1.5) is breaking your workstation or servers, it might be because there are conflicts between Rails and soap4r both in source code, and in the community. We’ll discuss the source code fix first:
If you are getting this error:
Uninitialized constant when using 1.5.8 with Rails
When running your Rails [...]
These guys crack me up. Good stuff…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z99EHyG2jQA
Ruby vs. .NET Video
