Archive for December 27th, 2007

Death to the 3-tier architecture

I was blog surfing this morning and came across a post at Bill de hÓra talking about web applications. I’ve suffered through too many software architecture meetings where 3-tier design was *absolute* only to be followed up a year later by software architecture meetings where our entire focus was on making our 3-tier solution *work*, [...]

Could email be my new blogging client ?

I’ve written a few times about my transition to Ubuntu Linux for both my work and personal computers. In that time, I have also commented (as have others) on the lack of a good blogging client. For those that agree with me, it it interesting that many of us have gravitated to Microsoft’s “Windows Live [...]

The OLPC does what it was meant to do, not necessarily what you wanted it to do

There has been lots - I mean *LOTS* and *LOTS* - of press, blogs, forum posts, and news about the OLPC over the past few weeks. Mostly, this has been because of the G1G1 (give one get one) donation program.
This has been both good and not so good. The challenge to all the press is [...]