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Monthly Archives: July 2006

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The Sudden Death of the IDE Market

The commercial (Java) IDE market has been going through a transformation that started more than 3 years ago. And it all started with the introduction of NetBeans and Eclipse free IDEs. I remember (and experienced in person) the love-hate relationship between Metrowerks and…

The (Relative) Truth behind Zinedine Zidane (Zizou) Head-butt World Cup Incident

OMG! A friend sent me these in an email… but there was no attribution. I don't know who created these sequences, but whoever did, thank you! This is so funny! If you know who created these, please leave a comment with the information,…

The Texas Independent Game Conference

The Texas Independent Game Conference takes place in Austin on July 22nd/23rd and attendees will get the chance to hear from indie veterans willing to share their successes and their experience as well as presentations addressing market trends, distribution, on-line security, development tools,…

Congratulations to the FIFA World Cup Winners

Just wanted to congratulate the Italians, 2006 FIFA World Cup Champions… Congratulations also to France and Germany…                                                    …

Developer Poll: Do You Like to Use Code Generators?

Development tools are getting very sophisticated, helping developers generate UI, base code structure, and more. But do you like using code generators? Or do you prefer to crank out all your code manually? I've put together a poll to see if developers are…

RIM Announces Hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server

A smart move by Research in Motion to serve small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) by hosting the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. See their Press Release. ceo

No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium, and on Ruby on Rails

I spent the last 2 days attending the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium here in Austin. I had a great time. Yesterday I spent the whole day listening to Dave Thomas, author of various Ruby and Rails books. Good content and presentation by…

Carnival of the Mobilists 35 at Xellular Identity

This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Xen at the Xelluar Identity blog – go check it out. Xen has done a great job hosting this week's Carnival… Visit the Carnival to read this week’s best writing pieces about mobile from…

Please Update Your Feed Subscription

If it is not too much to ask, please re-subscribe to my feed using the following URL (feedburner): http://feeds.feedburner.com/CEnriqueOrtizWeblog I debated a lot if I should depend on an external web tool for this – see Should SLAs be extended to Web 2.0?…

Tom on Widgets

A very good post by Tom Landspurg on (mobile) widgets. See his post What is a (mobile) Widget. Tom gets it right… on the definition, the concepts and challenges behind widgets. I'm looking forward to see a kick ass widget engine for mobile…