11 Jan 2007
A few days after reading Ted Neward’s post about checking your politics at the door and using the right tool for the job, I read this post from “Reed Me” over at Microsoft. Granted, Reed has a point. There’s no one you’ve paid money to (unless, as he points out in his comment, you paid for support) that will update your Time Zone tables for you in order to accommodate the 2007 changes. However, the tone of his post irked me and I had to reply. I won’t go into the details of our back and forth here (you can read our thread at his blog here), but it did make me think of what I think a good programmer should be. So here are my Programming Promises:
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11 Jan 2007
It’s a week from today! And now they have a Google Group set up, already 50 people are members and the conversation is starting. We’re Mashing up before the Mashing, ha! I’m looking so forward to this, and Dianne…do you think we could get an Adult Entertainment Expo next door at the last minute? Pretty Please? Anyway, get in the group and start meeting your fellow attendees ahead of time.
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09 Jan 2007
Why? Simple, because they can do something Microsoft can’t or won’t. Bring competitors together. Google AND Yahoo together on stage! Who would have thought it? With Microsoft screwing their partners, while Apple is brining competitors together, one has to wonder how long until Microsoft implodes. Apple is shrewd indeed. They talk like the iPhone is competing with cell phones, when what it’s really competing with is Microsoft’s UMPC initiative. What we have is not a phone, but an ultra portable computing platform. It just happens to make calls. So Apple beat Microsoft’s Zune with the iPod and is now going to beat Microsoft’s UMPC with the iPhone. The only way Microsoft will win is through sheer force of will (and dollars), which is not to be discounted in this case. Bill has to be fuming.
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09 Jan 2007
While the question may be ironic on this blog (note the domain), it looks like Blogspot may be having some problems, there’s a number of blogs I can’t access today, inlcuding http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com. Indeed Google’s very own blog Buzz seems to be down. Here’s hoping I stay up long enough to send the word out…
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07 Jan 2007
Oh man am I tempted to call up Scoble and be all like “Hey man! I want in on the BlogHaus, can you send me some plane tickets? Oh and can I bunk with yas?” All the CES talk has me a bit bummed that I’m stuck here doing my normal, boring job stuff. Oh sure, I have CodeMash in a couple weeks, but it’s in Sandusky not Vegas, and it doesn’t have an adult convention next door. Poo. So a little piece of me dies every time Scoble picks someone else up in his limo. Looking through my feeds, it looks like there’s a ton of bloggers there, alot that don’t even necessarily cover consumer electronics regularly on thier blogs. I’m sure the face to face is wonderful, unfortunatly I can’t afford in either time or money to go, hopefully there’ll be something in the Midwest/East Coast some time soon. I’m looking forward to the Microsoft annoucements most of all, but every year is exiciting to see what toys I’ll be buying in the next year or two. Well, while you are are out there enjoying the lights and booze, think of all the hundreds of thousands of bloggers that are stuck at home, wishing they could be out there having fun with y’all. At least CES is one of the most covered events on the web, with all the live coverage I’ll at least feel like I’m almost there.
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