I stand fast with my technological point of view that no solution will succeed without having an established interface. I tend to leave some of Bill Gate’s creations out of the mix because monopolies don’t play by the same rules as the rest of the world. I’ll also eliminate very small niche software. These tend [...]

I’ve been pondering the idea of desktop applications authored as mashups. the question becomes - what is the development environment ? You can run PHP, Perl, and other languages on a local machine but they really were not meant for that.  You could install Apache and Tomcat and have an HTML and applet environment [...]