by Bruce | Dec 24, 2008 | Development, Tech Trends, Things that make me think
I’ve been hoping and watching for a great portable computer that would be ideal for students (and others) for many years – at least since we tested some PowerBook 100s with teachers in 1991 (only to have some returned to us as almost “unusable” – imagine giving...
by Bruce | Jul 7, 2008 | Development, Tech Trends
I am getting a chance to do something I’ve wanted to do for a while – that is, get paid to do some Silverlight development. That being said there is a lot to prove to our customer and ourselves that Silverlight is the right choice, and is at the right level of...
by Bruce | Jun 11, 2008 | Development, Tech Trends, Things that make me think
If you ask most of the world about Steve Job’s keynote this week, they will basically tell you that it was the iPhone 3G announcement (new cheaper, faster, stronger, iPhone for the world) – which is true, but it was more than that. This was at the WWDC...
by Bruce | Jun 10, 2008 | Development, Tech Trends
There have been two interesting keynote speeches in recent memory: Bill Gates at TechEd, and Steve Jobs at WWDC. They both reflected on the current state of technology, made predictions, and made announcements. So what of lasting value came out of what...
by Bruce | May 19, 2008 | Development, Tech Trends
I’ve been committing to get back to occasional blogging, in addition to following Twitter, so I wanted to see if I really could get out a 10 minute idea-to-blog post. Here it goes. I found this really handy utility on the “Office Labs” site called...
by Bruce | Mar 11, 2008 | Development, Tech Trends
I occasionally run into some cool software tools that I end up using a lot, and wanted to blog about them. I have a few that I want to post soon – here is the first. ZoomIt is a simple free utility developed by Mark Russinovich at Sysinternals and distributed by...