January 2007
8 posts
Greek God Vs Sumerian Spirit
Yesterday, Tech Crunch ran a PR fluff piece on Adobe’s new framework Apollo. I felt somewhat compelled to comment on it, because of my well documented views on Flex. The gist of the article is that Apollo, Adobe’s pre-alpha but soon to be released web container, will change the space of Rich Internet Applications and make every early adopter extremely rich.
This claim is simply...
Using Spring Web Controllers with Dojo Dialogs
Now getting back to some real blog content, and to clear out some of the backlog…….
Not too long ago, at work, I ran into the problem of using a url backed by a Spring SimpleFormController inside of a Dojo modal dialog widget. The modal dialog was intended to modifiy the properties of some object on the parent page. The goal was to have the dojo dialog open, populate the dialog...
The Secret is don't watch "The Secret"
In the last few months, I’ve mostly thought about the things that I normally think about. Things like being a competent and interesting writer, the Porsche Cayman, java development and an OS X sub-notebook. At no point did thoughts of self-help babble float across my cerebral cortex. This makes me highly skeptical of The Secret’s premise: the “Law” of Attraction. This...
Xfce 4.4.0 Review
The Xfce project has just announced the release of Xfce 4.4.0. For those who are unfamiliar with the project, Xfce is known for two things. First, it’s built on the GTK toolkit, but is extremely light-weight. It takes a fraction of the required memory that a full Gnome install takes. Therefore, it’s been dubbed by the Slackware folks as the “Cholesterol Free Desktop...
Now, Learn how to Write
In a karma-based approach to making up for all the work I managed to get out of while younger, I’ve decided to start writing book reviews on this blog. This is good timing, since it coincides with my renewed interest in reading books.
The first book up for evaluation is the instant-classic Now, Discover Your strengths. Or rather, a potential instant-classic, had the author thought to...
Return of the Fujitsu
One thing that I’ve noticed that in 2007 our laptops are as big as they were in 2003. It’s been almost 4 years since I got my Fujitsu, and now that I’ve taken it back, I still haven’t come across a laptop that I like more. I’m very impressed with the build of this little machine. Even after a tour of duty with my technology destroying younger brother, it still works...
Nokia N800
Nokia has finally released the successor to the somewhat underpowered 770 by releasing the N800. As far as specs go, it looks like it’s a minor upgrade. I’m sure the software boasts improvement too. I would give a more complete technical analysis, but the N800 page does not seem to render correctly in Opera on my underpowered laptop. That fact is either very ironic or very...
iPhone (but not my phone)
Yesterday, apple made a big splash with their announcement of iPhone. Despite my generally favorable feelings towards Apple, I wasn’t really all that impressed. Frequent readers of this blog might relate this to my recent purchase of the Sony Mylo, which has many of the features of the iPhone, but lacks a touch-screen interface, bluetooth, and cellphone capabilities. Granted, that might...