Sun Microsystems is experiencing some tough times. They’ve restructured every year for the last seven years. Their revenues just dropped 7%. And they’re forecasting a loss of 2 to 12 cents a share for the quarter. Now their largest shareholder, Southeastern Asset Management, has increased their stake in Sun to [...]
Entries from October 28th, 2008
Feature-driven versus Date-driven
October 20th, 2008 · View Comments · Consulting
Very interesting blog post by a developer at Microsoft (http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/10/15/engineering-7-a-view-from-the-bottom.aspx). He describes what it’s been like working at Microsoft, comparing the Vista days to the current “Windows 7″ days.
What it boils down to is that Microsoft has switched from a Feature-driven development strategy to a Date-driven strategy. It should come as no great [...]
C# Everywhere
October 6th, 2008 · View Comments · Computing
In Linux-land there are two semi-competing approaches to the technology on the desktop. By desktop I mean windowing manager, login manager, windowing toolkit, the file explorer, etc. Those two projects are Gnome and KDE. KDE was beating the crap out of Gnome for a while but they decided to rewrite their entire [...]
Running Oracle for Development on the Mac
October 3rd, 2008 · View Comments · Mac
Update: Oracle has released 10g for OS/X. Here’s a third-party guide to installing it.
Oracle still hasn’t come out with a current version of their database for the Mac. If you need to work with an Oracle database and need a local copy for development this is a problem. Luckily it’s one that [...]
Web Inspector closes the Firebug gap
October 1st, 2008 · View Comments · JavaScript
There are several reasons I prefer Firefox over everything else. The list used to look like this:
Works on multiple platforms
Fast
User friendly
Standard-based (lack of JavaScript/DHTML bugs)
Firebug, firebug, firebug
With Firefox 3 I added one more item to that list:
Awesome bar
But over time that list has been chipped away by Safari/WebKit. Now it’s down to:
Firebug, firebug, firebug
Awesome bar
Well, [...]
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