The Asymmetric Web

"...Then began an awful period -- which continues to this day, sadly -- of companies developing intranet applications and then concluding, erroneously, that the application can be deployed on the Web by just flicking the proverbial switch..." [The Asymmetric Web]

ODF In Denmark

From September 1st, Government pubs will be available in ODF.

Hats off to the Danes.

I never liked the term "Web 2.0"

And perhaps now there is a good reason not to use it.

Men are from Mars but website design happens on Venus

"As soon as males get involved in building a web site, a distinct lurch from Mars to Venus appears to take place." Men are from Mars

Ubuntu on the Sun T2000 Niagara

I run Ubuntu on my never-far-from-my-fingers IBM T42p laptop, as well as on a bunch of server boxes.

If we proceed with the Sun T2000 Niagara we have on eval at the moment, we will probably look at Ubuntu on it, now that Jonathan Schwartz and Mark Shuttleworth have shared a stage at JavaOne and announced an Ubuntu server for the Niagara.

GWT and Twenty First Century Applets

Some time ago I wrote about JavaScript in a browser being a VM worthy of the name and perhaps the ultimate VM for deploying client-side code in a webby world (Twenty First Century Applets).

I had filed it under 'total conjecture' but Google's fascinating GWT means I need to revisit my filing classification for that article.

Of course, 2 picoseconds after I came across GWT , I came accross py-gwt. Subscribed.

Dublin. Grrrrrr.

"Over the boom years known as the 'Celtic Tiger', Dublin has become a fabulously active city, dripping in commercial activity, teeming with cosmopolitan life, all housed within a 300 square mile parking lot." -- If computers can do it, why can't we?