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July 2009

A follow-up to Gruber’s “Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline”.

Article here.
I’ve long been a convinced admirer of Gruber’s philosophy that Apple is not in direct competition with Microsoft; instead, it is a direct competitor of hardware manufacturers such as Dell and HP. If you take that into account, everything Gruber says in this particular article makes a lot of sense.
But I think there’s […]

What a great commentary on last week’s “The Onion” Chinese takeover.

By Haiyan Lee, who teaches at Stanford University. A smart analysis of the myriad sources of satire so lovingly executed by The Onion.

JS/Ajax libraries are there not to replace but to augment.

If you don’t want to learn anything about how JavaScript is bound to the Document Object Model, try something like GWT and stop demanding that the major Ajax libraries conform to your immediate needs.