Does Android dream of something more than Java?

Every time a new open technology appears, independent developers attempt to integrate it with other technologies. Programmers are often eager to try new stuff out especially in areas where it was not designed to be used. There’s a lot of porting in all directions going on. By satisfying their curiosity they give everyone incredible innovations [...]

Development, Eclipse, Google, Web and other forecasts

While everybody tried to predict what will happen this year, here is stuff that won’t happen in 2008.

It is hard to define what exacly an architecture actually is. Here are some ideas.

Eclipse M4 going online? RAP being wrong, GWT being right?

How to trick user to get him into feeling that a long operation takes shorter [...]

Online tools and AJAX fun

Online charting like Visio
Autodesk made available an interesting online tool for drawing blueprints and schemas. It looks like an AJAX version of popular MS Visio or open source Dia or Kivio. You can draw basic shapes, flowcharts, networks, user interfaces, office/room layouts, furniture and electronic circuits. You can also upload own images to the board [...]

Interesting map mashups

Map Compare by rockstarapps.com allows you to compare Google Maps, MS Virtual Earth and Yahoo Maps to learn which one offers the best experiens and functionality and suits your needs the best. It shows the same location using all three technologies on one site. While you navigate one oh them, two others are updated accordingly. [...]

The Web of tomorrow

I read yesterday a very good article about current trends and ways the web is currently developing. The article describes what I and many others observe. The authors gathered up various signals in one place and summarized what is going on around us.
They do not try to predict what the web will look like in [...]

Online mindmaps

I make a lot of notes to keep tracking ideas, todo lists, document outlines, even for my blog posts. My notes tend to have quite hierarchical structure: items are nested with others often several levels deep. For a long time I had been using TWiki installed on localhost at home, but main issue was it [...]

GSoC: the way to save money on head hunters

The company I work for pays quite big money to head hunter companies for searching top specialists available at various locations. It saves our management’s and developer’s time so the employees do not have to waste time on searching and interviewing so much people and can focus on business tasks solely. But I found lately [...]

Brainwashing

Today I’m exhausted with two-day meeting spent mainly on watching slides and discussing things of minor importance. Things that should be covered in documentation end up just in PowerPoint slides, since documentation is full enough of boilerplate text and abbreviation flood that there’s no place in there for useful things. Two days of staring at [...]