I thought I’d write a quick post in response to the posts by John Nack, Product Manager at Adobe, and The Flash Blog regarding the lack of Flash on the iPad (and iPhone). You can find their respective posts here and here. First, in response to John Nack, who makes the point that Flash has [...]
Tags: Adobe, death, Flash, HTML5, iPad, iPhone OS, John Nack, standards, The Flash Blog
As most of you are aware, Apple announced their new Apple iPad yesterday. There have been the usual set of reactions to the announcement. Shills like Paul Thurrott providing their heavily biased negative perspective, and Apple fanboys proclaiming that this device meets all their needs perfectly, and that the device is perfect. Both sides offer [...]
Recently I wrote a post summarizing my perspective on Google Wave. Shortly thereafter, I was contacted by a reader and asked why I had not mentioned Wave Robots. I errored in not including them previously, and this post contains my perspective. One of the reasons I had not included robots previously is because I did [...]
Tags: Google, Google Wave, robots, Wave
Now that I’ve been working in a larger company where there are many more IT contractors than just myself, I’ve begun to see a pattern in the mentality of a typical contractor, and consequently, their work ethic. I find that the typical mindset of a contractor is that they feel they are only there for [...]
Tags: contract, IT, recruiting, work ethic
Last week I was helping an individual migrate information over from his old company to his new company. As he no longer had physical access to the company computers, but still had Exchange access until the end of the month, one would have thought it a relatively trivial task. Quite the contrary. Though he had [...]
Tags: Air Contacts, Exchange, iPhone
In the last little while, I’ve begun to work a lot more with VMware ESXi, in an attempt to understand virtualization better. Along with the benefits it brings to larger companies, I began to see some benefits that it would bring to my personal life. At home, I am constantly developing or experimenting with new [...]
Tags: ESXi, linux, Media, Server, Ubuntu, Virtualization, VMWare