Author: Vince Kimball

Peter Ent On Flex. Peter Ent, a Boston based developer, has posted his thoughts on Flex, Flash, and JSP. If you are interested in Flex, this is worth reading:  http://www.keaura.com/flex/.. [Ben Forta's Blog]

Defending ColdFusion Against PHP. PHP is not one that comes up often, there is not a significant overlap between PHP developers and ColdFusion developers. But, in the interests of presenting the complete story, here is what you need to know. PHP is also script based, pages contain code which are processed by the PHP engine.… Continue reading Defending ColdFusion Against PHP

The Gorge of Eternal Peril.  It's rare for any speaker to draw a standing ovation from the OSCON audience, but that's what David Rumsey did last week. And Rumsey isn't one of the heroes of open source software. He's a philanthropist who collects historical maps, scans them at high resolution, and publishes them on the… Continue reading The Gorge of Eternal Peril

The hospital of the future,Thailand. While the American President outlines a plan for Electronic health records, “…The hospital of the future is here today, but it's not in the US; it's not even in Europe–it's in Thailand. Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok is an all-digital hospital, with one giant database containing everything from patients' billing to… Continue reading The hospital of the future,Thailand

Intranets.com Helps Company Collaborate. Fast deployment and no upfront costs are the promises made by Intranets.com, a collaboration software company. How well does it deliver on that promise? SmallBusinessComputing.com asked COSEP, a recent customer about its experiences. [Datamation Product News]

Is it E-mail? Is it an instant message? No! It's QAnywhere!. iAnywhere Solutions, Inc. has announced the release of a new technology called QAnywhere. QAnywhere, a part of SQL Anywhere Studio, is a new messaging technology that makes it possible for application developers to send and receive messages between mobile applications and enterprise systems. [Datamation… Continue reading Is it E-mail? Is it an instant message? No! It's QAnywhere!

PC World: Three Minutes With the MIT Lab Director. Q&A with Michael Bove. It would be really sort of nice if, wherever I was and whatever access means I had to the network, all of my information just appeared to be there. And whatever security issues and digital rights management issues and everything else would… Continue reading Three Minutes With the MIT Lab Director

Chandler's Network Architecture: Priorities Change. We've changed our priorities for the network architecture we will use to support sharing and collaboration in Chandler. If you follow OSAF's work here or here, this won't come as a surprise, but as it's a pretty significant shift it's worthy of elaboration and broader discussion. For small groups, the… Continue reading Chandler's Network Architecture: Priorities Change

mental models of persistence. It is a challenge to introduce a new model of UI to the web. People are clearly frustrated by the standard web application experience where interaction has devolved into a series of forms. The RIA model provides an opportunity to solve this problem. Jonathan Boutelle writes about User Mental Models of… Continue reading mental models of persistence

Apple Chief Has Emergency Cancer Surgery. Steven P. Jobs, co-founder and chief executive of Apple Computer, underwent emergency cancer surgery on Saturday. By JOHN MARKOFF. [The New York Times > Technology]