I’m glad I can finally talk more about the project that has been consuming me for the last fifteen months - the first beta release of Acrobat.com. One of the questions the end users of SHARE ask us a lot is whether SHARE is just a short-lived experiment - they worry that Adobe will just [...]
Category Archives: Rich Internet Applications
Humorous Microsoft Rant of the Day…
22May08 – 19:02
Must be something in the water. Here’s an experienced designer ranting about Expression Blend and WPF. My favorite quote:
I think the message of Blend has some nice takes, but in the end the whole concept of [the] Designer <> Developer processes to me is always couched in developer controlled languages which is Blend’s ultimate failing. [...]
How to customize Mac Word
22May08 – 13:16
Hilarious rant about how difficult it is to assign a keyboard command to Find Next in Mac Word. Of course our own buzzword doesn’t offer programmable keyboard shortcuts at all, and it isn’t as Mac-like as it should be sometimes, so I shouldn’t throw stones. But this is so funny I can’t help it…
Silverlight: lead pony or stalking horse?
20May08 – 19:51
This article about Novell’s Moonlight project made me giggle (via Hack The Planet - hi Wes!). I was wondering just the other day about how Miguel de Icaza, a very smart and talented guy, ended up in a career spent developing one Microsoft-clone project after another. Evolution, Gnome, Mono, Moonlight. Just think what he could [...]
