March 2007 Archives
I am very excited about what is coming out about Apollo. It looks like the Rich Internet Application may actually finally be realized in a way that makes so much more sense than embedding your product inside another.
That's been my major complaint about Web 2.0. I can only access sites like Flickr, YouTube, and Upcoming through a third party app, namely a web browser. We can now look at these problems and not only create NetApps (very much like Alex Lindsey has been calling for on TWiM) but they can truly stand alone, and work on any platform.
Concerns about Apollo at this point: Documentation. First and foremost Macromedia (before it was acquired) was not the best documenter. I brought this up during the Beta of Coldfusion 7, but it's especially critical for Apollo, since Apollo will be Adobe's "switcher" app for programmers. What I have seen of Flash CS3's documentation is a promising start, but the docs in Apollo will be the make or break in keeping this from being another Central.
Over the last week I have started to see the need for a smart phone in my life. If nothing else I need to be able to access the Internet to keep up the new work at Reel Horror, because we're going to be focusing a lot of time and energy on ramping it up.
So, does anyone have any suggestions. I'm thinking either the BlackBerry Perl or the iPhone.
Now, I know the iPhone isn't out, and that's it's Apple 1st gen, so there could be issues. It does EXACTLY what I need however - good web rendering, mail delivery, SMS, and random access voice mail.
Is the iPhone worth the wait?
[posted with ecto]
Technorati Tags: smartphone, iphone
This is it. Mark your calendars, because I officially no longer can work as efficiently in Windows as I can on my Mac(s). This is not a function directly of the operating system, but more it is a product of the secondary apps, the share ware, the third party developers' work.
My "webkit", as I have fondly started calling the collection of apps to get things done, just don't exsist in any workable form.
Transmit is the best FTP application that I have used for my work style. SubEthaEdit and TextMate together are the only way I code. These however are not the deciding factor. One app alone is what I miss when I'm at my day job.
CSSEdit. By far the best application I have for design. Why isn't there anything that is even close?
This was going to be a long, boring, pretentious post, but I just don't have it in me. Instead I bring you the following:
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam -
Translation:
I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head
Badges
