Connection07 was held at Stadsmuseet, one of the very few web conferences held in Gothenburg. Of course, compared to the large global conferences such as MIX and @media, this is a bit smaller. On the other hand, I've often felt that the large conferences tend to turn a bit towards...
In the wake of SXSW 2007 there has been complaints in the blogosphere raising the question whether large computer conferences have played out their role. I mentioned some of it in my previous post, Celebrities of the web. For me, the biggest reason to attend these things is the enormous...
What is it that make someone famous in the computer world? I don't speak about "famous" as in Bill Gates or Steve Jobs here, but rather normal people who for one reason or another gets recognition for their work. To be recognized in the developer community twenty years ago meant...
Have you ever complained about having too much data to copy from one place to another? Well, rest assured you are not alone. Google is helping Space Telescope Science Institute to collect and store the vast amount of data collecting by the Hubble telescope. The servers are connected to the...
As mentioned in last post, Report from Microsoft Live 2007, Microsoft will be releasing full versions of WPF and WPF/E during the year. But don't think that the competition is sleeping. Have a look at the freshly released Apollo by Adobe, a cross-platform runtime for bringing RIAs to the desktop....
Just as last year, Microsoft arranged another presentation of their upcoming stuff for developers. The speakers were Johan Lindfors and Robert Folkesson from Microsoft, as well as Patrik Löwendahl and Marcus Olsson from Cornerstone. The topics covered most of the Microsoft range for developers, which is quite a lot. There...
I have been using various blends of Visual Studio since 1998. Back then, we coded C++ in version 6.0 and thought we were happy. Four years later, Visual Studio .NET (version 7.0) came along and made most of us say goodbye to unmanaged development environments. We wouldn't be developers if...
The classic attitude towards Flash is that while it is an excellent tool for interactive visual effects when applied properly, it is a pain in the back when it comes to accessibility and semantics. This black-and-white view often leads to arguments between the Flash developers and frontend coders. Since I've...
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