Monthly Archives: June 2008

Stuart Stern, our fearless leader at Gorilla Logic, loves to share that “Everything you know is wrong” is not a value proposition. Usually highlighting mistakes he saw as an executive at Sun Microsystems – one example being the slightly delusional believe that everyone should be using Solaris on their desktop instead [...] Continue reading →

I have been a long time Windows XP user on the desktop (it was actually a pretty good OS), but I just couldn’t get excited about making the move to Vista. So, I concluded sometime last year that I was going to have to make the move to either Ubuntu or Mac. I have managed [...] Continue reading →

I just posted an interview on InfoQ.com discussing the Curl RIA platform.  Curl sounds like a pretty nice set of technologies, it includes the programming language, IDE, and client-side runtime.  It sounds like a very similar model to Adobe AIR and Flex in terms of how they break things up and the programming model.  I [...] Continue reading →

I have been working on a case study with Claude Courbois of NASDAQ for a few months now. We finally finished it up and published it over at InfoQ.com. NASDAQ has a very cool application, Market Replay, which utilizes AIR (desktop) & S3 (data). I am personally fascinated by how much the world has changed, [...] Continue reading →