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- Standards and pragmatism in web browsers
- Recently, Microsoft declared that true "standards mode" in IE 8.0 will be the default, indicating that it will try to render all pages marked with the proper DOCTYPE according to the more rigorous (and ACID2-compliant) HTML rendering rules of the improved standards mode in IE 8.0. This is in contrast...
- Tags: Web, HTML, Spec, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Standards, Standards Mode, Joel Spolsky, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Gillmor-speak gets redacted into minutiae-as-clarity, for once
- Theres this great blog interpretation/expose by Joel Spolsky where he redacts Steve Gillmors latest blog post, which is ostensibly about Jonathan Schwartz recent blogs. Dave Winers, too, I guess.But, because the post is pure Steve, nothing is ever quite as it seems: Hey, there goes an eight-foot white rabbit down...
- Tags: Intellectual Property, Sun Microsystems, Podcasts
- Blog posts 2006-12-23
- Day 2: joel spolsky Live at EclipseCon
- [Updated 3pm: pictures added -Ed]Software development guru Joel Spolsky delivered the first keynote address to a packed crowd at EclipseCon 2006 this morning. Joel was introduced by Eclipse director Mike Milinkovich who thanked the conference organizers and sponsors. "If you haven't read [Joel's] blog, you should" said...
- Tags: Joel Spolsky
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
- How to make $364 a month writing software
- Joel Spolsky's wicked sense of humor is on display in his latest posting, which is also the foreword to Bob Walsh's new book, Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality. Spolsky admits he doesn't like the term "MicroISV," as Independent Software Vendor is "a made-up word, made...
- Tags: software company, software, Spolsky
- Blog posts 2006-01-13
- Web 2.0 dissed, big time
- Joel Spolsky, CEO of Fog Creek Software, admits he was in a "bitchy" mood when he wrote this scathing indictment of what he sees as the latest round of "architecture astronautics", but nonetheless wonders if all the hype and excitement around Web 2.0 isn't all stuff we've been through before,...
- Tags: Joel Spolsky, Web, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2005-11-04
- "The Joel" waxes philosophical on Redmond
- When it comes to the industry, Michael Dell may be "the Don" see below, but when it comes to Microsoft, ex-Microsoft employee Joel Spolsky is known as "the Joel" see his blog. Though he's been gone from the company for a decade, his opinions to this day remain among...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Joel, Spolsky
- Blog posts 2004-10-26
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- Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices
- I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Microsoft's Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?
- Microsoft's Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?Bring it onThe HailStor... I mean Live-Mesh was a good idea back in 2001, but I seriously believe it might have been a bit ahead of it's time. I'm normally an Apple person, but I love the idea of having all these services co-ordinated and...
- Tags: RSS, Microsoft Corp., Hailstorm
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Microsoft's Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?
- "What is this Windows Live Mesh? It's a way to synchronize files." Joel Spolsky -- in classic Joel Spolsky style -- takes on Microsoft (but Google is also on his "radar") to task for fueling a round of hype around the whole notion of Cloud Computing....
- Tags: Hype, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Dell XPS 730 reviews: A Ferrari stuck in traffic
- Dell has released a new version of its top-of-the-line gaming desktop, and it is a major update. The XPS 730 series is the company's first gaming rig to come--in some configurations--factory over-clocked, and Dell says it is capable of playing Crysis, a notoriously demanding first-person shooter, at a resolution of...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., ATI Radeon, Memory, Ferrari, Hardware, XPS 730, XPS 730 Series, H2C, Games, Personal Technology, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Software that can improve the UI on your Windows Mobile device
- We all know that the iPhone has an amazing user interface, but it is debatable on whether or not the iPhone meets the essential needs of the business and power user. Many folks in the enterprise have Windows Mobile touch screen devices that have advanced functionality that can do just...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Keyboards, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Putting perspective on the "30% of Vista crashes caused by nVIDIA" reports
- A story that's echoing around the blogosphere at the moment relates to how information contained in the 158 page pack of emails released as part of the Vista Capable lawsuit indicates that during some unspecified point during 2007, 30% of Vista crashes seemed to be down to nVIDIA drivers. Back...
- Tags: Recovery, NVidia Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., TDR, Diagnosis Information, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Standards and pragmatism in web browsers
- Standards and pragmatism in web browsersJoel nailed it.Making websites at that worked cross browser has never had ANYTHING to do with standards. [b]Ever[/b]. The collective sigh of relief when Netscape was finally laid to rest was almost audible.Joel is not alone with this conviction. Every developer and GUI designer in...
- Tags: Web browsers, Joel, Web browser, pragmatism, standards
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- More on the naked drive lifestyle
- [Updated Mar. 3, 8:56PM PST] A reader in Japan points to new products seen in the stalls of the electronics district of Tokyo that can improve the naked drive lifestyle. However, some readers say enclosures, like pants, may have a benefit for protection of valuable data and your investment in...
- Tags: Enclosure, Back Panel, Starter, Product Name, Naked Bento Box, Naked Drive Village, FireWire, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- How do you benchmark real-world work?
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes and I have been focusing lately on a tiny aspect of PC performance. He ran two sets of file management benchmarks on a test PC in his lab, I performed similar tests on a machine in my lab. Results? Inconclusive. But are both of us...
- Tags: Usability, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Usability Professional, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Report: maker of Ojo VoIP/videophone likely on bankruptcy path
- Report: maker of Ojo VoIP/videophone likely on bankruptcy pathCisco should buy themI recently saw an ad for "Cisco Telepresence."If Ojo isn't the best product to add to their teleconferencing portfolio, I don't know what is. It's been out a while, people have them, and incorporating Ojo into their stable...
- Tags: Litigation, Telephony, Cellular phones, Ojo, bankruptcy path, videophone, bankruptcy, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- The ITIL Imperative: Accelerate from Strategy to Value in '08
- As ITIL hits the top of many organizations' priority lists in '08, business leaders are anxious to see tangible business value out of their ITIL investments. But practical advice on how to use ITIL to drive near-term business value is often hard to find. Listen to this...
- Tags: Strategy, Bomgar, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- Webcasts 2008-01-24
- Is Jazz the real deal for IBM?
- To continue the car analogy from earlier today, what if GM were able to get together with its dealers and build something like CarMax? That's one way to think of Jazz, the new Eclipse-orented development community IBM opened today. If you like IBM this...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Productivity, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- 2008: The security wishlist
- 2008: The security wishlistApple could publish code audit resultsI find that the Coverity scans of open source projects give a relatively objective assessment of the quality of open source code. I find it quite impressive that KDE is having 4.5 million lines of code scanned. The number of...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, monoculture, security, Apple Inc., vulnerability, diversification, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-01-02
- Microsoft to build an 'Emacs.Net' text editor
- Developers are puzzling over recent clues blogged by a few Microsoft employees regarding a new "Emacs.Net" tool the company is building. Microsoft's Connected Systems Division (the folks who developed the Windows Communication Framework, a k a "Indigo") is hiring developers to build a product that team member...
- Tags: Editor, Microsoft Corp., Emacs.Net, Emacs, Microsoft Windows, .Net, Team Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Construction, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
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