Archive for the 'Business' Category

Obituary for netbooks off the mark

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

InRe: Jason Chen on why the netbook market is dead in three years | T3 magazine
Jason’s reasons for netbook’s demise, underpowered for Windows and underoutfitted for Windows, while true to a degree, are not going to be the reasons for any so called demise of the netbook market.  What he is really talking about is […]

CrossOver Chromium vs. Firefox 3 - Javascript performance results

Monday, September 15th, 2008

An interesting thing happened on my way to the web today. While reading through my RSS feeds, I came across a story about CrossOver doing a Proof of Concept port of Chromium to CX. Interesting since the mighty “g” can’t seem to get it together for Linux. I’ve already downloaded and played […]

Google App Engine — Runs on Python

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Now this is truly an interesting development. Google’s just announced App Engine is sure to super-charge the Python community and convert a number of disillusioned developers of other languages in to Pythonistas. There have been lots of interesting comments floating in the blogosphere about what this could mean.
I think it […]

Automating Checklists with nose

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Grig has an interesting post today about enforcing checklists via nose, Agile Testing: Joel on checklists  Now that is an interesting idea.  I do lots of PCI compliance testing and documenting the tests and procedures is par for the course.  Automating those procedures goes a long way in helping out in this regard. Dora, […]