UPDATE: Adobe updated the blog bost linked below, so some of the concerns expressed below are not really valid now. The situation is not as clear as I’d like, but it is still better than the original. Last week Adobe announced that whey would not be supporting Flash player for the mobile platforms in [...]
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What on earth is Adobe doing?
Posted in development, IT on November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Microsoft’s innovation is leading to confusion.
Posted in development, IT on October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Metro style applications. This is what Microsoft is trying to get people excited about these days. When I say people, I mean the technical bunch and related demographics and companies. The end users are always after something that works and preferably looks pretty (which has made Apple a tech giant) Microsoft is actually quite good [...]
Wow: Google makes Window Builder Pro open source!
Posted in development, IT on December 15, 2010 | Comments Off
A while ago, Google acquired Instantiations, the makers of the fantastic UI development plugin for Eclipse. The plugin named Windows Builder Pro, allows you to develop user interfaces for your java and gwt projects, along with xwt support. Google first made the tools available for free, then today I’ve received an e-mail that says that [...]
What is happening to Java, and why do you need to know?
Posted in development, IT on November 16, 2010 | Comments Off
Well, this last month has not been the best of all times for the Java community. Oracle, which has acquired Sun Microsystems a while ago finally began to work on its new and most important asset: Java. Oracle, in many ways is very similar to Apple. They have a working strategy for their products, and [...]
openEHR for practical people
Posted in development, healthcare, IT on October 18, 2010 | Comments Off
The following is a document I’ve written about two years ago, which did not see daylight, for no sensible reason. Heather Leslie has just made the very sensible and obvious offer: put it on your blog! So here we go! v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable [...]
Web based tooling for openEHR
Posted in development, healthcare, IT on September 29, 2010 | Comments Off
/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} The web is swallowing everything in the software world. Everything from accounting applications to clinical apps are turning into web applications. The trend is there, and it is so strong, [...]
openEHR and web services, the dirty business of XML: part 1
Posted in development, healthcare, IT on August 17, 2010 | Comments Off
XML has a billion uses in software development. It is being used in everything from persistence to GUI representation, with lots of weird edge cases included in the mix. Personally, I do not like XML, because I can’t read it comfortably. I’ve always seen it as a computer to computer communication mechanism which is readable [...]
Windowbuilder from Instantiations: licence donated to Opereffa project
Posted in development, healthcare on October 20, 2009 | Comments Off
It appears that every once in a while, makers of really good software remember that there are projects out there who could have used their software, if only they had the resources. Instantiations has very kindly donated a licence for their WindowBuilder Pro product for Opereffa, and I am more than happy to have access [...]
You want mobile applications? Then please let us develop them!
Posted in development, healthcare on July 8, 2009 | Comments Off
I’ve had my eyes on the mobile market for years. I’ve started with j2me apps on a motorola phone, and I’ve developed c# based applications for both that phone and ipaq. In general I loved it. I thought the devices and their future held enourmout potential, and today’s mobile application market is getting close to [...]
Small cloud vs big clouds
Posted in development, healthcare, IT on July 4, 2009 | Comments Off
I’ve been thinking about a particular future business and its infrastructure for almost 3 years now. Cloud technologies are quite relevant to what I have in mind, and recently I’ve started to think about working on a set of open source cloud implementaitons. However, there is a problem. It is not a technical problem, it [...]
