Category Archives: General

A few weeks back, when talking around the office with MarkJ, Cam, and a few others about Google talk. We were noticing that they didn’t do anything special. They didn’t even do an AJAX IM client. Well, today Cam IM’d … Continue reading →

An open-source Outlook/Exchange killer. This is the stuff that keeps the Microsoft Office VP up at night. http://www.zimbra.com/ Wow, open source/free. Business model? Unknown. The UI is ok, but definitely could use a designers touch. Nice flash demo on their … Continue reading →

When eBay bought skype, they payed many billions for an app written in Delphi. Just a little bit of that could be enough to buy Delphi or Borland 🙂

Google OS Screenshots I got a link sent to me at work from MarkJ. It makes sense. They have been hiring a lot of key OS people. Who knows if this link is real or what it really says, though. … Continue reading →

This post describes a show that I heard a few years back. I feel bad for the residents of New Orleans, but at the same time, I feel as though they had plenty of warning. I mean on that NPR … Continue reading →

All this blogosphere chatter on ‘Hackathons’ inside companies makes it appear that this is a new idea. For the record, the earliest note I have for such a thing was at NeXT software. They had a thing called “Small Apps … Continue reading →

So, in a post before the previous, the Eclipse IDE was mentioned as a free IDE available for C++ work. Specifically, Eclipse and the CDT plugin for it. I have a few opinions here. It is painful that it requires … Continue reading →

Just to give you a heads up, over the next couple of months, I’m going to make some posts about IDE’s or Integrated Development Environments. I find the topic interesting because I’ve finally used a decent one and I “get … Continue reading →