11.21.07 - 02:50pm
It doesn’t take a lot of courage to predict that Amazon’s new Kindle electronic book reader will be a flop. This device looks like something that Sony or Apple circa 1994 would cook up. It’s getting a lot of press attention (such as the cover of the current Newsweek), but this is only because it’s […]
11.21.07 - 01:55pm
The Android mobile phone software platform from Google has some journalists and developers confused due to its license terms. The terms are open source, but not as free as the GNU Public License. That decision has people wondering what Google’s up to. I have a theory about why they did this.
11.12.07 - 06:53pm
It turns out that as The New York Times says, Google is not building a phone. They’ve built (bought, really) a phone platform called Android. It’s Java on Linux, and it’s open source, but notably it is not J2ME based. Reportedly it will run J2ME apps, but the SDK makes the Android API look more […]
11.12.07 - 05:22pm
Technical Architecture is a Form of Investing. I’m reminded of this sort of thinking because of recent news from RubyConf 2007.
11.12.07 - 04:02pm
Technical architecture (the act of researching and specifying a set of technologies to address a particular need) is a form of investing. Sadly, like stock market investors, many technical architects are blinded by hype, hero worship, tribalism, and short-sightedness, and make poor decisions as a result. A comparison between current web application development issues and […]