Platforms snap, crackle, and pop

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Snap Crackle Squish

Snap Crackle Squish 02/01/2005 10:11 PM

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The deep thought for the day came to me in the grocery where I noticed a new kind of cereal: Are Multigrain Rice Krispies© still Rice Krispies©? Shouldn't they be Multigrain Krispies© or something Krispies© instead? What about Rice, Oat and Maize Krispies©? Maybe Pro-Biotic Krispies© for the middle-aged yuppies? When they started with Corn Chex©, they franchised into multiple flavours but never Multigrain Corn Chex©, rather Multigrain Chex©. I am perplexed. I did notice that the same cereal is being marketed in the UK as Rice Krispies© Muddles which come with a pro- and pre-biotic bio-bonus payload! Sounds more like a biology lab experiment than a breakfast cereal served in sugar with a little milk.

I am also frightened by the disturbing rumour that Oliver Stone is thinking about making an epic fanfic movie that will make every Thatcherite pre-order the DVD for enjoying it in private with a jar of vaseline and tissues. He is supposedly thinking about Meryl Streep for the lead probably because every other self-respecting actress in the UK would laugh at the very idea of it.

And, Scene from My Life, nee A Day in the Life, has finally returned after a long hiatus with a photographer in Paris whose photoblog I follow regularly.

Seven more days until we get the puppy. :)

Snap, Crackle, Pow Go the Internet Ads

Snap, Crackle, Pow Go the Internet Ads 04/19/2004 02:43 AM
Los Angeles Times Apr 19 2004 7:09AM GMT

Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. /
Harvard students want their snap,
crackle, pop back

Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. /
Harvard students want their snap,
crackle, pop back 03/29/2005 04:27 AM
Harvard students upset after dining halls dump brand-name cereals .. Harvard students want their snap, crackle, pop back .. Things are Tough all Over .. the Boston Globe

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Snap Appliance Snap Server 1100 NAS
Device

Snap Appliance Snap Server 1100 NAS
Device 05/04/2004 12:09 PM

Xmultiple Announces FocalPoint Snap-On's
For USB Cables - Bend, Rotate and Snap
USB Cables in the Direction a User
Desires

Xmultiple Announces FocalPoint Snap-On's
For USB Cables - Bend, Rotate and Snap
USB Cables in the Direction a User
Desires 06/05/2004 02:50 AM
XMULTIPLE Technologies Enhances USB Connections with FocalPoint Snap-On USB. Just Snap-On our FocalPoint Snap-On USB to your cable and position the cable in the direction you want away from a crowded work area [PRWEB Jun 5, 2004]

Adaptec to snap up Snap Appliance

Adaptec to snap up Snap Appliance 07/13/2004 10:26 PM
Maker of components plans to buy storage device company for about $100 million.

"From Vinyl to Digital, Hold the
Crackle"

"From Vinyl to Digital, Hold the
Crackle" 01/03/2004 10:00 PM

From Vinyl to Digital, Hold the Crackle

From Vinyl to Digital, Hold the Crackle 01/02/2004 02:23 AM
New York Times Jan 2 2004 1:45AM ET

SymbianOne And Cognima Snap Together At
Symbian Expo; Cognima Snap™ provides
effortless photo upload for SymbianOne's
Expo coverage.

SymbianOne And Cognima Snap Together At
Symbian Expo; Cognima Snap™ provides
effortless photo upload for SymbianOne's
Expo coverage. 09/24/2004 03:29 AM
We are pleased to announce that we will be bringing live images from the Symbian Expo show floor with the assistance of Cognima and Orange Partner using Cognima's revolutionary Snap technology. Right now a demonstration page is available and full coverage will start 5th October. [PRWEB Sep 24, 2004]

"animated gif: platforms"

"animated gif: platforms" 07/21/2004 02:40 PM

animated gif: platforms

animated gif: platforms 07/21/2004 09:42 AM
is superb .. Holy shit

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Mobile Platforms

Mobile Platforms 02/01/2005 08:36 PM

The last time I've done any intense development work for mobile devices was 4~5 years ago.  At that time, I've looked at Palm, Pocket PC, J2ME, and WAP and concluded that mobile platforms were not yet ready.  Last week, I've looked at the mobile devices and OSes again.  My opinion is that it's still not ready despite the amazing change in capabilities and capacities.

The main problem that prevents emergence of killer apps on mobile platforms is that applications are treated as second-class citizens, placed in a straight-jacket and pigeon-holed.

To receive or make a call, one just flip-opens the phone or press a button.  To use an application. one has to navigate around a typically hierarchical tree of functionalities.  Some devices have separate buttons for built-in applications but they either cannot be remapped to another application or controls for remapping is buried and lost in that confusing tree of functionalities.

In addition, functionalities are not tightly integrated and offers wide array of modal experiences depending on where you are on the tree.  On top of the default phone mode, browser mode, SMS mode, e-mail mode, address book mode, and various preference modes, each application has its own mode.

Before killer apps can emerge, mobile platforms must be changed drastically, removing modes and allowing applications to add their functionalities without being boxed in.

Open Platforms Rock

Open Platforms Rock 03/19/2005 02:54 AM

This is an example of the amazing things that happen when people can build on open platforms. It's an app on top of the Flickr photo sharing service, that uses Flickr's open protocols to auto generate a photo montage spelling any word you like:

BI bigwigs ramp up platforms

BI bigwigs ramp up platforms 05/10/2004 01:32 PM
BI vendors Firstlogic, IBM, Informatica, and SAS Institute are all working to broaden the reach of their respective BI platforms via extensions to their product lines focused on data integration.

kottke expands on web platforms

kottke expands on web platforms 08/11/2004 03:15 PM
looks like a lot of this loose coupling is going to get easier soon

Next gen authoring for Web and mobile
platforms

Next gen authoring for Web and mobile
platforms 04/10/2005 08:57 PM
Scoop Apr 10 2005 11:57PM GMT

3G Mobile Platforms Agreement

3G Mobile Platforms Agreement 12/27/2004 08:35 AM
3G Dec 27 2004 11:23AM GMT

Substation computing platforms

Substation computing platforms 01/02/2005 06:33 AM
Reed Business Information Jan 2 2005 9:11AM GMT

2004 reviews: Platforms

2004 reviews: Platforms 01/03/2005 05:19 PM
InfoWorld reviews the year in operating systems, including the arrival of the v2.6 Linux kernel.

Sun Frees Solaris for x86 Platforms

Sun Frees Solaris for x86 Platforms 12/16/2003 05:27 AM

Tips For Crossing Platforms

Tips For Crossing Platforms 03/20/2003 10:00 PM
Clip, save and pass along to your platform-crossing friends, no matter which way they're switching. (New York Times via MyAppleMenu)

New: Gboard wheeled platforms

New: Gboard wheeled platforms 02/12/2004 11:28 AM
AstroAge's Gboard wheeled platforms for G5 and G4 towers are made of half-inch thick architectural-grade Plexiglas with die-cast twin wheel casters.

Snap! 1.21

Snap! 1.21 06/21/2004 05:11 PM
It’s a fun logic game, that’s also quite relaxing.

It's a snap

It's a snap 06/22/2004 01:05 AM
Usatoday.com - Mon Jun 21, 08:12 am GMT

Snap

Snap 02/16/2004 12:57 AM
SNAP Platform First File Release

Snap 1.0

Snap 1.0 03/14/2003 05:07 PM
SNAP! won?t make you go to pieces. Why? Because SNAP! isn?t the sound of your sanity cracking in half. Au contraire, it?s just a fun logic game, that?s also quite relaxing — if that makes sense. If not, how about this: because it?s FREE!!

A snap to use

A snap to use 11/14/2003 08:40 PM
USA Today Nov 14 2003 8:24PM ET

Snap DAL for .Net

Snap DAL for .Net 12/05/2003 06:42 PM
c# version of SnapDAL

IBM, Dassault integrate middleware, PLM
platforms

IBM, Dassault integrate middleware, PLM
platforms 03/08/2004 11:22 PM
Deal intended to boost On Demand environments

David Stutz on Platforms and WinFS

David Stutz on Platforms and WinFS 04/09/2004 04:10 PM

David Stutz:  "Because of this, although I agree with many of Ray's observations, I disagree with his predicted outcome. Rather than becoming the basis for a powerful network driven by the commodity exchange of schematized XML data, WinFS is more likely to be just one more in a string of proprietary Microsoft extensibility mechanisms."

A very interesting essay.  Much depends upon whether you or not you believe developers will embrace this new platform "in the absence of commodity (replaceable) implementations". Indeed, one of the most significant (and voluminous) criticisms I received privately after writing my essay relates to the increasing version fragmentation of the Windows installed base itself - particularly between corporate and consumer PCs.  Regardless of a given platform innovation's merits, will or would ISVs take deep advantage of an OS innovation that will only reach a subset of the installed base for a very, very long time?  Or have we now transitioned to a world in which there is a sustainable advantage for redistributable commodity middleware versions of "good enough" solutions?  Although "Windows bundling" used to represent a surefire way to create a de facto systems-level standard e.g. MAPI, might new Windows innovations be ultimately less utilized/leveraged than commodity middleware, given the increasing fragmentation of the market?

LinuxInsider: Platforms for Testing and
Publishing

LinuxInsider: Platforms for Testing and
Publishing 05/12/2004 07:01 PM
"Sometimes you just need a simple test platform to check out Perl or PHP applications as either stand-alone apps and Web scripts..."

IT Myth 3: All big shops run multiple
platforms

IT Myth 3: All big shops run multiple
platforms 08/13/2004 06:17 PM
As the New Wave band Devo said, ?Freedom of choice is what you got. Freedom from choice is what you want.? Were they right; is having no choice easier than having to decide for yourself? Does this principle apply to IT? Do enterprises seek heterogeneity rather than single-vendor solutions?

Developers who build their own platforms
and toolkits

Developers who build their own platforms
and toolkits 01/16/2004 10:59 AM
It recently occurred to me that most of the software developers I know (at least those on Unixish operating systems) seem to fall into two groups: Those who mostly use the basic tools, APIs, and environment they're given. Those who, over time, begin to construct their own platforms by layering their own libraries, APIs, and--more fundamentally--their ideas and philosophies on top of the base platform. It's interesting. At first I figured it had to do with how long someone had...

Sun Launches New Platforms, Slashes
Prices

Sun Launches New Platforms, Slashes
Prices 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In a two-pronged initiative, Sun Microsystems is launching new managed computing platforms and slashing prices of its mid-range and high-end server systems. With these moves, Sun is seeking to modify its image as an elite provider of proprietary systems.

Free software Java platforms

Free software Java platforms 01/14/2003 02:28 PM

Richard Stallman is interested whether XSLT-process, my XSLT processor and debugger Emacs interface for the Saxon and Xalan XSLT processors runs on top of a free software JDK.

As far as I know Kaffe is one such free-software implementation of a Java virtual machine. There are many other implementations listed at Kaffe's Web site.

Does anybody have any experience with any of these in a real project? How much of the JVM functionality and the associated class libraries in JDK 1.3 are implemented? Can one run an XML parser and an XSLT processor like Saxon or Xalan on top of them?

Cross Skilling Across Multi-OS
Platforms?

Cross Skilling Across Multi-OS
Platforms? 06/24/2005 06:16 PM

Friendster, PHP, Java, and Coding
Platforms

Friendster, PHP, Java, and Coding
Platforms 07/05/2004 07:33 PM

Friendster goes PHP: This is good news. I hate to dis Java, but, well, I hate it. Always have.

...on Friday we launched a platform rearchitecture based on loose-coupling, web standards, and a move from JSP (via Tomcat) to PHP. The website doesn't look much different, but hopefully we can now stop being a byword for unacceptably poky site performance.

Related to this, here's something that just threw me for a loop the other day —

A long time ago, I developed an open source app for churches. The app is very simple to set up and get running. I wrote it back when I didn't know the first thing about object-oriented programming, and the code certainly won't win any awards, but it did a job and did it very well. A lot of churches got it up and running and benefitted from it.

I gave up the project to someone else two years ago, and the guy who owns it now is doing great things with it. However, he just anounced that the app is being re-written in J2EE. Here's what he said:

As for J2EE, there is plenty reason why this needs to be the direction for future development of [App Name] and, in fact, all other Open Source enterprise software. PHP simply does not scale and does not offer the richness of development tools that J2EE does through the many open source projects implementing and surrounding it. There are a lot of misconceptions about J2EE that abound because many people/companies misuse/misunderstand it. It is not difficult/expensive to set up, it is not harder to develop for (past the learning curve), and it is certainly not slow (in fact, performance is one reason we are moving away from PHP's limiting CGI-like architecture).

PHP is only good for simple, lightweight web apps. J2EE is good for professional enterprise-class applications, which is what [App Name] is going to become. In the end, [App Name] development is going to become faster and far more professional and the software itself is going to become far more reliable, extensible and sophisticated.

I am wickedly biting my tonque over this, but, I tell you, I could not disagree more completely with everything this guy has written. BUT — it's not my project anymore, and this guy has really done good things with it in terms of developing a community and adding functionality. Perhaps the benefits he brought there will offset this error.

(I'm not going to mention the name of the project, because I don't want to start a war of words or anything. If you know the name of the project, please keep it to yourself. I hate to censor anything, but I'll get rid of any comments that identify the app or the developer. Thanks.)

After that little rant, it may seem strange for me to say that I'm trying not to get hung up on platforms lately. My buddy Matt has been pelting my with .Net propaganda, and Joe told me that it's fantastic as well ("I tried really hard to hate it..."). This being the case, I'm trying to stay platform neutral these days and concentrate on app design and usability, without regard for what platform the app is written in.

I've recently use PHP to write perhaps the best app I've ever designed, but I'm trying not to identify it with PHP so much. I'm trying to think that the value of the app is in the design, the flow, and the usability, and that we could re-write it in any platform that makes sense. (See this post for much more on this note.)

So why am I so hot about the aofrementioned Java re-write? Because that app is designed for organizations with very, very limited computer budgets and resources. For them to set-up a PHP-capable Web server is probably asking too much, but it was the lowest barrier to entry I could find. Above, I said "re-write it in any platform that makes sense" — I don't see that Java makes any sense here.

Okay, rant over. I've probably said too much already. I know this post will offend someone, and I apologize in advance while bracing for the deluge.

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Bluetooth iFrog keyboard available for
all platforms

Bluetooth iFrog keyboard available for
all platforms 09/20/2004 07:19 PM
infoSync Sep 20 2004 10:30PM GMT

Applications Engineer, Interactive TV
Platforms

Applications Engineer, Interactive TV
Platforms 07/30/2004 11:59 AM
BBC - London (2004-07-29)
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