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More on “HTML is dead”

By dlambert ⋅ February 24, 2010 ⋅ View Comments

Microsoft‘s S. Somasegar (“Soma”), who heads the Developer Division, posted on his blog yesterday about “Key Software Development Trends“. I was pleased to see him include “Proliferation of Devices” among the top trends in development, but there was obviously an acute case of tunnel vision at work here, because Soma completely neglected all the non-Microsoft devices that people [...]

Choosing a Linux Distribution

By dlambert ⋅ January 8, 2010 ⋅ View Comments

A while back, a friend asked me some questions about getting started with Linux.  He wanted to know specifically whether he should pick up a copy of RedHat at the local retailer — for  something on the order of $80. I sent him back some notes about choosing a Linux install (distribution, or “distro”), and [...]

Reboot needed – really??

By dlambert ⋅ March 11, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

Image by Daniel F. Pigatto via Flickr It just happened to me again.  I came into work and was greeted by the cold, grey screen that told me my PC had rebooted.  Windows Update had struck again. I’ve got a PC that hosts my development environment in a VM, so every time this happens, not [...]

It’s about time…

By dlambert ⋅ October 9, 2008 ⋅ View Comments

Mono is going to be represented at Microsoft’s PDC this year.  Miguel de Icaza, who leads the open-source Mono effort, is going to present a session about Mono and .Net.  If you search this blog for “mono”, you’ll see that I’ve been paying attention to these guys for quite a while now, and wondering the [...]

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