I normally don’t like to do those "me too" sorts of posts Microsoft folks seem to specialize in, where you just say "look at this great article my coworker wrote". To me, its always seemed like a rather distasteful way to do PageRank/TechMeme manipulation. But Mike Chambers has written a really good article on the [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Invasion of the dynamic language weenies?
26Mar07 – 11:50
Hacknot has published a contrarian paper on Python, Ruby, and other dynamic languages called “Invasion Of The Dynamic Language Weenies”. Its an interesting read, with the central premise being that dynamic language partisans (like me) haven’t empirically proven any of the benefits they tout. I think this is a fair criticism, albeit one taken to [...]
PDF Preview Handler from Ryan Gregg
25Mar07 – 09:49
Ryan Gregg has done a nice little hack (and I mean hack as a compliment: the program was small, easy to create, and darn useful) to embed Adobe Reader’s ActiveX control within a Vista/Outlook 2007 Preview Handler. So now you can see what those PDF attachments in Outlook 2007 look like without all that double-clicking. [...]
Apollo, Competition, and Openness
24Mar07 – 10:55
As pretty much everyone who reads this blog knows by now, Adobe recently announced Apollo, our runtime that brings web applications to the desktop. I’ve been reading a lot of what has been written and I’m generally happy with the things people have been saying - most people seem to “get” the value of Apollo [...]
