While taking a trip to sun.com today, I noticed that it’s already redirecting to oracle.com. And at the same moment I noticed that the headliner at oracle.com is an announcement about the Oracle Cloud Computing Forum. Given Larry’s well know views of the cloud, I found this amusing. And a vision of Larry running a [...]
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Steve Jobs holds forth at Apple town hall
January 31st, 2010 · View Comments · Mac
Steve Jobs held an internal town hall at Apple after the unveiling of the iPad. Since secrecy is so tight, many at Apple had no idea the iPad was coming. He took questions and second-hand commenters say he had a few choice comments.
He said that Apple bought Lala because they wanted their talent [...]
The Google Phone
December 17th, 2009 · View Comments · iPhone
There’ve been reports lately about the new Nexus One phone from Google. It appears to be a phone directly controlled by Google. Past Android phones have been produced in the traditional way, by having hardware vendors create the phones and then sell them to mobile operators. Google appears to be taking the [...]
Make IE run 10 times faster
September 24th, 2009 · View Comments · JavaScript, Web
Some initial performance tests are in and Google’s Chrome Frame plugin is posting benchmarks 10 times the speed of IE 8 rendering.
I’m already seeing a wave of announcements from Web 2.0 sites that they’re going to support the Chrome Frame plug-in. Many of them had written IE 6/7 off and either didn’t bother trying [...]
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Cut Their Heart Out and Replace It
September 22nd, 2009 · View Comments · Web
Google announced Google Chrome Frame. A plug-in for Internet Explorer that completely replaces the IE renderer and JavaScript engine (IE 6, 7 and 8). So everything you see in the browser window is rendered by Chrome. Google plans to puts links to the plug-in on their web apps when an IE user without the plug-in [...]
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 [...]
Clueless
March 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Computing
I am often stunned by the lack of understanding in comments and opinions on the web. Here’s today’s example, culled from reactions to the possibility that IBM could acquire Sun:
Sun should stay independent. The only way Sun can retain the integrity of it’s research and vision, along with freedom to improvise would be without any [...]
JavaScript App Server Anyone?
September 19th, 2008 · View Comments · JavaScript
Round #4374 of the JavaScript performance wars has just been completed and the winner this round is SquirrelFish Extreme. For those who aren’t “in the know”, here’s a quick recap.
Safari, Apple’s browser, is based on WebKit, the open source project headed by, yes, Apple. The WebKit team is rewriting their JavaScript engine and has created [...]
