We now have the second iconic moment of the Bush presidency. This is how he’ll be remembered, if only because shoes seem to be so psychologically powerful: Khrushchev is remembered in this country for pounding his shoe on the UN’s lectern, and Adlai Stevenson is remembered for the hole in …
On December 4, JavaFX 1.0 has arrived to this world with lots of “It’s a Boy” balloons. The family of RIA development tools gets bigger. Java developers should definitely start experimenting with this new kid on the block.
Salesforce.com, which used to be just a chi-chi SaaS house until it realized that identifying itself with cloud computing would make it even more fashionable, has expanded its alliance with Google. It’s come up with Force.com for Google App Engine, described as a new set of tools and services for application development in the cloud.
In most discussions about scalability, we often approach the topic as a pure technical/architecture challenge, and ignore cost issues. The problem is that when we truly scale our application, and want to benefit from economies of scale, we’re going to end up with scale limitations, not because of technical issues, but because of the pricing and licensing models.
IDC took another look at its 2009 PC forecast Wednesday and in view of economic realities dropped its worldwide unit growth rate prediction from 13.7% (which is what it said in Q2) to 3.8% and said the value of the PCs that do ship will decline by 5.3%. It used to think that revenues would increase next year by 4.5%. It puts the decline down to constrained GDP, confidence, and capital and credit availability.
One of Silverlight’s advantages over Flash is the relatively effortless interop with AJAX. The other day, I needed to mash up some JSON data from various sites, and found it pretty easy to use AJAX to circumvent the crossdomain.xml restriction.
I’m watching Larry King Live on Friday, December 5, 2008 and trying to figure out why they are running a caption “General Moters” for the company General Motors this evening? I am guessing the only reason is that GM accepted to change the company name to General Moters as one of Nancy Polesi’s conditions of the bail out.