Mac’s like their inexplicable keyboard symbols. Mac documentation, both for Apple software and third-party software make heavy use of keyboard symbols and often don’t take time to explain them. It takes a little hunting around to find what the characters mean.
Keyboard keys are the first, biggest stumbling block when switching to a Mac from Windows [...]
Entries from April 28th, 2009
What do those weird Mac symbols mean?
April 28th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac
State of the iPhone
April 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Mac, iPhone
In case you didn’t follow the Apple earnings call last night (which I’m ashamed to say I did), you might have missed the news (reported everywhere) that Apple just had their best second quarter in their history. That’s in the midst of a horrible recession. Everything was roses for Apple in all but one category [...]
What does an Oracle acquisition of Sun mean?
April 21st, 2009 · View Comments · Java
I’ve been asked by multiple people what I think of the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. I’ve assembled my thoughts on the matter. I don’t have any particular insight, just a general experience with Oracle. And all of this is subject to the deal being completed sometime in the summer.
Oracle is now a hardware company. [...]
Tags:Dell·DTrace·GlassFish·IBM·Java·JDeveloper·MySQL·NetBeans·Oracle·Solaris·SPARC·Sun·WebLogic·ZFS
Enterprise Architecture in a Web 2.0 World
April 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Architecture, Web
There’s something very curious to me. While standard thinking is that you need to use “enterprise quality” languages to scale to large loads, the reality is that big Web 2.0 sites scale much, much larger then most enterprise apps and use scripting languages to do it.
So does that mean that “enterprise quality” is a bunch [...]
Tags:Architecture·MySQL·PHP·Python·Ruby·SOAP·Web·Web 2.0·XML
Setting up your blog with Google Analytics
April 10th, 2009 · View Comments · Web
I was asked recently how to setup a blog with Google Analytics. Google has made the process extremely easy but I’ll show you step-by-step how it’s done.
1. Create an account with Google Analytics
2. Add a website profile for your blog. Click on the link to Add Website Profile.
3. Enter the information about your blog. Click [...]
What I would like to see out of a Sun purchase
April 3rd, 2009 · View Comments · Java
I talked a little bit before about what I think would happen in a Sun purchase. But, if I could pick what I want to happen, it would be this:
IBM re-licenses OpenSolaris, DTrace, ZFS, NFS and Java under the GPL or BSD
It’s just a shame that good, useful technologies can’t be incorporated into Linux and [...]
Tags:DTrace·GlassFish·IBM·Java·NetBeans·Solaris·Sun·WebSphere·ZFS
