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 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*, [...]

I needed to simplify my parent’s PC. The primary tasks include email, reading blogs (not just mine), calendar, and banking. All of these are web applications - Gmail, Google Reader, Google Calendar, and on-line banking.
I was having them use a sidebar that served as a feed reader and had a notification service for Gmail. The [...]