Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
I missed the deadline (again) for JavaOne submissions… December is just the worst possible time for this: the end of the year rush for both business + family, etc… JavaOne submission deadline should be sometime in January, as in the 2nd week of January… I had 2 very interesting BoF topics in mind – oh … Read more
While talking to my daughter earlier today, I realized how a bad user experience could ruin a product and/or brand across generations, and decades. In our case, it was about a car maker. Around 10 months ago I bought a new Jeep Grand Cherokee. The vehicle has been an OK-kind of car, it is pretty … Read more
Bill has added a new Java ME and realated discussion forums to his site, go check it out. He also has renamed the old “J2ME Archive” to be the “Java ME Archive” to reflect the rebranding of “J2ME” as “Java ME”. ceo
I read Barbara's (Little Spring Design) piece titled the un-browsers where she describes mFoundry's mojax mobile application framework. I know about mFoundry from before, but wasn't aware of mojax. mojax is their a Mobile “AJAX” application platform, so I went ahead and checked it out. mojax is very cool, but mojax is not Mobile AJAX; … Read more
The Web is constantly evolving. The web's major milestones are a reflection of the impact made to our society (regardless of the technologies behind it). These milestones or revolutions have been tipping points; the moment when previously unique Web becomes common. The first web revolution or tipping point occurred after Tim Berners-Lee introduced the web … Read more
We are back from the Province of Quebec, Canada, where we were on vacation and had a great time… Merry Christmas! In the spirit of the Holidays, let me start with a photo of the Nativity taken at La basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal: Here is my good friend Edmund Troche and his family, together with … Read more
I am off to my ski vacation trip, back in a week… My weblog will be very quiet until then… When I return, I have some code to share, new technical articles, and I will also tell you about a very cool company and product created a very good friend of mine Dr. Jeff Capone … Read more
I've added to my mobility resources and weblog web sites support for mobility-specific Google searching; check it out. I will continue tuning the search engine over time. Google search results customized by Mobility Resources using Google Co-op ceo
From Wired Magazine, Nov 2006: “The most amazing oversight in electronics design is that although the technologies are shrinking at increasing speeds, our hands are not…” Bryce Rutter, Founder of Metaphase Design Group
Gaming, on-line gaming, seamless voice, push-to-talk, VoIP, video sharing and streaming, entertainment, access to work, email, music, IM, payments, SMS, mobile web, etc, etc, etc. The All-in-One handset. BussinessWeek reports that DoCoMo is betting on the All-in-One Gizmo. Mike Elgan from The Raw Feed writes Why the BlackBerry Pearl Is the Future of Phones. While … Read more