Posts Tagged ‘sw’
PRODUCT STRATEGY MEANS SAYING NO
If you’re building a product, you have to be great at saying No. Not ‘maybe’ or ‘later’. The only word is No.
Mono Kills Open Source Silverlight
Mono Kills Open Source Silverlight.
In an interesting interview with InfoQ’s Jonathan Allen, Miguel de Icaza admits that the Mono project has abandoned Moonlight. When asked why the answer was revealing:
“Silverlight has not gained much adoption on the web, so it did not become the must-have technology that I thought would have to become.”
Nick Bradbury: Screw the Power Users
I’d argue that’s one of the biggest problems that has plagued the software industry. We’ve all built stuff for ourselves, even though the vast majority of software users aren’t like us.
We’re the ones who made computers so hard to use. And we’ve done it by catering to power users – by building software for people like us instead of for people who don’t know and don’t care about all the geeky little details.
So if you’re just starting to build something, make your mantra “screw the power users.” Unless power users are your primary customers, catering to them will only hurt your product.
Understanding Microsoft’s big-picture plans for Hadoop and Project Isotope | ZDNet
Understanding Microsoft’s big-picture plans for Hadoop and Project Isotope | ZDNet.
With a familiar looking whiteboard picture.
Silverlight 5 released
Some interesting new features, such as full trust in browser for COM or P/Invoke
A slightly more in-depth review here, but also some deep suspicion that SL is at a technological dead end.
Mac OS X can’t properly revoke dodgy digital certificates
A programming glitch in Apple’s OS X operating system is making it hard for Mac users to tell their computers not to trust digital certificates, exacerbating an ongoing security problem with a Dutch certificate authority that was recently hacked.
Red Eye Monitor (REM)
Comprehensive cloud automation for lazy control freaks
This is the goal of the Red Eye Monitor (REM) system. To provide a method of defining the goals we want to provide in services, and then through a combination of owned/leased physical hardware in various regions, and rented virtual resources from various vendors in various regions, to fulfill your organizations needs in a planned and automated fashion.
Apple files inaccurate evidence in Dutch Samsung case
Mark Krul, a lawyer at the Dutch firm WiseMen and a specialist in IT and intellectual property law, is astonished by the findings.
“It surprises me that for the second time incorrect presentations of a Samsung product emerge in photographic evidence filed in litigation,” he said. “This is not appropriate and undermines Apple’s credibility both inside and outside the court room.”
Hornet Dear Bernard 