Archive for November, 2007
Anon
Friday, November 30th, 2007I know that you believe you understand what you think I said but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Managers and non-Managers
Friday, November 30th, 2007An interesting perspective on the difference between a programmer and a manager. So here’s my theory: Managers must work shallow and wide, while programmers must work narrow and deep. People who are naturally tuned to one particular method of work will not only enjoy their jobs a lot more, but be ...
Navizon Buddy Finder
Friday, November 30th, 2007Navizon was one of the pioneers of application development for the iPhone and as such I think we're going to see something cool from them come February when the official iPhone SDK is released. The Navizon Buddy Finder is probably one of the coolest ideas I've seen and something I'd be ...
US States want to riot at Redmond
Thursday, November 29th, 2007As reported in Computerworld: In a brief submitted to federal court, state antitrust regulators dismissed companies such as Google and Mozilla Corp. and technologies such as AJAX and software as a service as piddling players that pose no threat to Microsoft's monopoly in the operating system and browser markets. ... "In spite ...
I want email everywhere
Thursday, November 29th, 2007One of the coolest things about my new iPhone is the email client. It's real IMAP email. I have absolute confidence that what it displays is what is on my IMAP server. It is, of course, in complete contrast to the mail client that shipped on my N800 which was ...
On having half a brain
Thursday, November 29th, 2007I made a mistake earlier this week and dared comment on an article on ubuntukids which reminded me of a certain gastric delicacy. We had a couple of replies, one from the author which was in English and the other which was probably in Esperanto. The author was pretty gracious ...
Wherein I ridicule silly people
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007The article The REAL Reason the Linux Community Didn’t Come Up With the iPhone starts off with an interesting premise. Lately, there seems to an explosion of interest in Open Source. Sure. As much as there has been an explosion in interest in the last decade. The article is really a rebuttal ...
7/100 How Best to Comment on a Corporate Blog
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Now this is a tough one and really speaks to the angry raving lunatic in me (the guy who writes probably 85% of the content on here). Companies tend to have two sorts of blogs - corporate and employee. At infurious we just really have employee blogs. We aggregate them into ...
BBC in new internet strategy with C4 and ITV…
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007From the BBC: The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are to launch a joint on-demand service, which will bring together thousands of hours of television programmes in one place. No mention of the dread iPlayer? Ridiculous!