Joel Spolsky and the Temple of Doom. I'm back, with a very interesting topic too! Joel Spolsky, ex-Microsoft Manager and software engineering guru has a new essay, How Microsoft Lost the API War that is creating quite a big storm in the blogging communitiy. Joel posits that the priests in the holy Temple of Microsoft… Continue reading Joel Spolsky and the Temple of Doom
Month: June 2004
G.O.P. Offensive Puts Small Dent in Kerry's Image
G.O.P. Offensive Puts Small Dent in Kerry's Image. The campaign, which lasted three months and cost $85 million, did not score as much damage as some Democrats had feared. By Adam Nagourney and Jim Rutenberg. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Julian Borger has…
Julian Borger has…. Julian Borger has a story in The Guardian that paints the anonymous intelligence professional who penned the forthcoming Imperial Hubris: How the West is Losing the War on Terror as animated in no small measure by “contempt for the Bush White House and its policies.” That's a bit wide of the mark.… Continue reading Julian Borger has…
More reaction to Joel's API War post flows in
More reaction to Joel's API War post flows in. The reaction to Joel Spolsky's API Wars piece keeps coming in. Prasenjeet Dutta: Right or wrong, Joel scored a slam dunk. …It is not clear that soldiering on with the Raymond Chen approach1, with its 80s era design, would have solved anything. Larry O'Brien: mciSendString(“Wrong, Joel”).… Continue reading More reaction to Joel's API War post flows in
Notes from conversational marketing talk at Cooper Katz PR firm
Notes from conversational marketing talk at Cooper Katz PR firm. Steve Rubel wrote up the notes from when Buzz and I spoke to his employer (a PR firm in New York). [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
Involving Customers in Your Product Design: What a Difference a Decade Makes
Involving Customers in Your Product Design: What a Difference a Decade Makes. Back in the summer of 1993 I was an intern at Microsoft (a couple of years before I got back there for a real job), and I have a vivid recollection of a conversation I had with a product manager. When I expressed… Continue reading Involving Customers in Your Product Design: What a Difference a Decade Makes
Run your own movie production house with this .NET app
Run your own movie production house with this .NET app. Here's a cool .NET app: Sunfrog Film Scheduler. I guess the guy who wrote this app didn't get Joel's memo. [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
Olivier takes on Joel
Olivier takes on Joel. Olivier Travers has one of the better responses to Joel Spolsky's post: Microsoft lost the API War? Not so fast. “maybe .NET is actually a good way to get web developers into Windows as well, so that they can create both web frontends and rich clients with a common code core.… Continue reading Olivier takes on Joel
NEWS.COM
CNET NEWS.COM By Declan McCullagh – Antipiracy bill targets technology. A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate would, if passed, dramatically reshape copyright law by prohibiting file-trading networks and some consumer electronics devices on the grounds that they could be used for unlawful purposes. The proposal, called the Induce Act, says “whoever intentionally induces any… Continue reading NEWS.COM
Another example
Another example of how our security establishment (including NASA) is riven by sweetheart backroom deals with companies run by former employees. No security “transformation” is possible without ending this process. Elon isn't the only person worried about this. Someone who worries about this is Elon Musk, a co-founder of PayPal, a highly successful online-payments firm, who… Continue reading Another example