Ever since I switched to 64-bit GNU/Linux, at least 674 days ago, I have been living with the fact that the Sun JDK (a.k.a. The Java) for linux-amd64 lacks both Java Plugin and Java WebStart. Every time I wanted to

By the time Silverlight came around, the problems afflicting web applications all round were well known and somewhat well understood

So I was waiting for someone to bring a wordpress app to the iPhone so that mobile blogging could become real for me

When I began seriously using Ruby I noticed two things that I didn't like about the language.There's no method to get the metaclass.Some people create modules as a hint that they reopened the class.It's a few years later and I've

The Apache Project has released Ant 1

I was fairly skeptical about Mahalo, but I think it's fair to say I was wrong - the project has worked out pretty well. Well enough that Google is jumping into the space with Knol. Mathew Ingram comments: Mahalo has

Recently I had to do some mass-conversion of HTML files to DITA XML — material I'd written for the upcoming JavaScript Ultimate Reference (the third, and arguably most complicated, part of the SitePoint Reference)

In April I wrote the following to a colleague after reading ZDNet's article on the announcement of LiveMesh: I have absolutely no respect for Ray Ozzie as an architect

Libellula croceipennis, female San Joaquin Wildlife refuge, 2008-07-04

Apple has truly stumbled with MobileMe - enough so that Walt Mossberg is calling them to account on it. Now that's gotta hurt. Technorati Tags: mobileme

Life viewed without purple-and-gray-tinted glasses

As you can see, you can now attribute the content that goes with your open source project on Google Code

After noticing a few patch requests on Rubyforge

On today's Smalltalk Daily, we look at an enhancement to the debugger (currently in beta) that brings the browser and inspector icons into it. Technorati Tags: smalltalk, debugger

I received an email this morning that pointed out some organizational issues around the Smalltalk Daily page. It was a fair critique, and I've started cleaning things up over there. It ought to be easier to find things now that

The Title Tag is an HTML coding always used to sum up the contents of your web page in one thought. The Title is the first object that Search Engine Spiders see and is also displayed as the hyper-linking text

Here is an article by Jessica Merritt describing 50 Firefox 3 add-ons that will change the way you surf the webFirefox 3read more

The ruling Akali Dal in Punjab has expelled rebel party MP Sukhdev Singh Libra from its primary membership for defying the party whip by abstaining during the vote of confidence against the United Progressive Alliance government.

His was the stentorian voice that effectively projected the Communist Party of India-Marxist’s (CPM) view in Parliament — and outside — for four decades. On Wednesday, just two days before Somnath Chatterjee's 79th birthday that link snapped when one of

Inspectors found that 100 people have been "slightly" contaminated near the French nuclear plant Tricastin, French media reported on Wednesday.