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Just spent the last few hours downloading and playing with the beta of Flex 3, Adobe’s IDE for Rich Internet Applications (ie. applications running on the Flash Virtual Machine) which is based on Eclipse and has an XML-based UI / form description language more or less like HTML. I’m having two thoughts about it. One…
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37 Signals on why enterprise software sucks
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Quick Note : I just had a revolution in my thinking, triggered by Enso but influenced by several other recent trends. You write Enso “extensions” as XML-RPC servers sitting on your local machine, register them with Enso and it calls them using XML-RPC. I tried the example from the tutorial and it’s very cute and…
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Next installment of the must-read series on FogCreek’s Wasabi. Fascinating to see the problems they’ve come up against and the solutions. What Stefan calls “picture functions” sound close to GeekWeaver “blocks”.
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Cool RedMonk TV on open source startup.
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Very interesting … seems that FogCreek’s Wasabi is a language to compile into the various parts of a web-app in ASP or PHP. So kind of a competitor to GeekWeaver. 🙂 Better take notes. I wonder if it’s gonna be released to the public.
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DAn McWeeney has a great post on what he calls “synthesizers” : which seem like generalist / hacker / blogger / communicator type. Personally I think the existence of the web is pushing us all in the direction of being synthesizers.
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This story about rejecting Rails in favour of PHP is very interesting to me now I’m on a PHP-tip.
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Some good links on Diseconomies of Scale … via comments at Bruce Eckel’s