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IE8 Review
I've been playing with IE8 beta 1, and I've got some thoughts ... In terms of user visible HTML rendering features, I think IE 8 beta 1 is possibly the biggest release of IE in nearly 11 years since April 1997 when IE 4.0 alpha 1 was released. The his...
05-Mar-2008
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Reducing the Edit-Compile-Test Cycle
There's a fairly obvious link between developer productivity and the edit/compile/test cycle. One of the big things wrong with Enterprise Java is that you swap the edit/compile/test cycle for an edit/compile/deploy/...
02-Aug-2006
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Google is 800 trillion times faster than Microsoft
Fred: Could you tell me where on the LAN the docs for Project X are? Shiela: Oh, they’re not on the LAN, I found them on the Internet. Fred: Much better – I’ll Google for them. There is something very wrong when I can do a free text search over 20...
16-Feb-2006
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Microsoft innovating ways to shoot themselves in the foot
Ajax, Internet Explorer, Netscape, GMail and Outlook on the Web - the story of how to learn from your own past. All the way through their anti-trust trial Microsoft were claiming the right to innovate, and everyone else was pointing out how little Mic...
06-Oct-2005