Official Google Blog: The next generation of Google Docs.
They’ve made the editors for docs and spreadsheet even *more* powerful and added features like what people are used to in desktop editors – and they’ve added a whole new editor for drawings.
If you are using Subversion, stop it. Just stop. Subversion = Leeches. Mercurial and Git = Antibiotics. We have better technology now.
via Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby – Joel on Software.
also, check out his tutorial he created that gives you good insight into the mindset needed (and how to break out of your subversion-centric mindset): HgInit
HotGloo - The Online Wireframe Application
(P2 is the name of the theme that the WordPress blog you are curently reading is running. The linked article below describes the effect P2 had on their company)
It completely transformed how Automattic works internally and I think is one of the most valuable things we’ve adopted in the past year. I’m on the road a lot, and sometimes my only connection is checking the mobile-optimized P2 on my iPhone.
I’m excited about P2 partly because blogs provide an incredibly robust infrastructure on which to build more advanced apps and this is a good example of that.
via How P2 Changed Automattic — Matt Mullenweg.
http://v.wordpress.com/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.18
I know that the distributed model feels very strange to business people who are used to the traditional, centralized way of running a company. But I’m here to tell you that it works. It might even work a lot better than the traditional model for certain types of businesses. After all, distributed systems tend to work well in general (the internet itself being a prime example). If you try this model yourself, I think you will see clear benefits in employee happiness and hiring, and I recommend these core strategies that have worked for us: Have frequent company and team meetups to address the social challenges, use co-working and event spaces instead of traditional offices, and fully embrace new real-time, activity stream inspired communications tools like P2.
via 5 reasons why your company should be distributed « toni.org.
…Five minutes a day you might defeat the lizard brain long enough to stand up and make a difference.
And five minutes of rocking would be enough, because it would be five minutes more than just about anyone else.
…Android runs atop a Linux kernel. Android applications are written in the Java programming language, and they run within a virtual machine (VM). It's important to note that the VM is not a JVM as you might expect, but is the Dalvik Virtual Machine, an open source technology. Each Android application runs within an instance of the Dalvik VM, which in turn resides within a Linux-kernel managed process…
via Introduction to Android development.
Good IBM document on Android development.
The all-new Outlook Social Connector connects you to the social and business networks you use, including Microsoft SharePoint, Windows Live, and other popular third-party sites, so you can get more information and stay in touch with the people in your network without leaving Outlook.
via Outlook 2010 Features – Social Connector.
For everyone who lives in their Outlook Inbox and would like to bring in social networking stuff. Looks like just LinkedIn for now, but FaceBook, etc. coming soon. Also looks like it can be installed in OL 2003 and 2007.
UrlRewriteFilter – Rewrite URLs in Java Web Application Servers.
Useful for making Struts apps more RESTful.
Blogging with Sharepoint is painful. A couple of reasons:
1) SLOW. Part of this can be the server it is on, or the bandwidth and latency between here and there. But even on a fast server sitting next to you, the interface is a) coded inefficiently, and b) slow and awkward to use.
2) Not open. A web application falls several notches right off the bat if I can’t use the browser of my choice as an equal citizen. In Sharepoint’s case (at least, with this version), I can open a page and create a post in a browser such as Google Chrome, but I have no access to the WYSIWIG tools for working with the post that Internet Explorer gets. Adhering to open standards has accessibility benefits way beyond which browser you can use – searchability and usability jump way up.
related: See my post on IE6 and how it causes untold headaches in IT: http://voltage.bstonetech.com/blog/2010/01/its-time-to-stop-using-ie6-ed-bott’s-microsoft-report-zdnet-com/ (note: the linked article barely even touches on the coding nightmare having IE6 as a lowest common denominator brings about)
