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 [...]

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. [...]

Mouse and keyboard of the future

Microsoft has came up with a pretty cool device that might replace mouse as a pointing device.

Here is the patent entry.
Looks fancy but if that is going to work like a joystick-in-the-air that might be not so useful I’m afraid. Also I doubt it could compete with touchpad screens like iPhone has. And many people [...]

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 [...]