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 [...]
Dear Google, I am not my mother!
Posted in IT on January 14, 2011 | Comments Off
Yes, I know that you people at Google want to make sure that even my mom can easily use your products, and for your search engine, that is definitely a possibility. However, when it comes to browsers, Google Chrome is way, way too simplified for anyone who’d like to use it for daily work.I am [...]
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 [...]
It is 2010, and Microsoft is still not getting the web.
Posted in IT on November 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Dear Microsoft, My university, University College London, had an agreement with you to move our e-mail addresses to www.outlook.com. I usually work with up to 30, or more tabs in my browser. Regardless of the browser, as of 2010, I can in no way, bother to find a particular tab, and I simply open a [...]
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, [...]
Good bye Google Chrome
Posted in IT on August 30, 2010 | Comments Off
When Google announced Chrome, I was excited, especially due to performance advantages. Those advantages still exist as of today, and Firefox is becoming more of a bloated software, or at least it feels that way. For a while, Chrome has been my primary browser, since its performance is really good. However, I realized that I [...]
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 [...]
