December 2007
16 posts
Java 6 for Leopard preview release →
Looks like we should finally have Java 6 on OS X early in 2008
Amazon SimpleDB →
This has been the missing piece of the puzzle for many developers creating scalable web-apps running within Amazon EC2 and S3. Until now the only way to utilise a persistent data store was to run a DB on a volatile EC2 instance, spooling the data off to a persistent store at regular intervals. Whilst Amazon SimpleDB isn’t a true RDBMS, it looks like it should be capable of fulfilling a large...
Times magazine names iPhone as Gadget of the Year,... →
“Mashups use the browser as a sort of Lego platform, allowing the snapping...”
– Great analogy of mashups by Doug Crockford.
Douglas Crockford's HTML 5 Suggestions →
A lot of sensible approaches here. Also worth looking at Crockford’s module tag proposal which would make browser security for mashups, and AJAX usage in general, possible.
A Preview of HTML 5 →
Summary of the progress so far on the HTML 5 spec. I’ve been following the progress of the W3C HTML WG and the discussions are highly interesting (if somewhat long-winded at times!)
iPhone tops mobile browsing charts →
The iPhone web browsing experience has given a long overdue wake up call to the mobile industry. This is how it should be.
“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”
– Grey’s Law
“Blaa. It is not a bap.”
– via Wikipedia
24 ways advent 2007 →
Super geeky way to count down those days until Christmas. Learn a new web design trick every day. Archives of the 2005 and 2006 countdown also available.
