Archive for May 2007

Google Gears

Google just released their new offline-webapp Firefox and Internet Explorer plugin called Google Gears. It’s basically offers a persistent relational database that you can access from Javascript, as well as way to run Javascript code asynchronous, which is important if you have run expensive code. We now have Firefox itself, Google, Adobe and Microsoft offering [...]

Steve and Bill at All Things Digital

Videos of the complete Steve Jobs and Bill Gates interview: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Prologue Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 1 Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 2 Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 3 Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 4 Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 5 Steve Jobs and Bill [...]

I’d like one for my girlfriend

“Businessweek profiles “Metro” — a prototype laptop designed by Intel and Ziba Design. The 0.7 inch thick laptop is the world’s thinnest notebook and weighs only 2.25 pounds.“ “Other design-oriented features include different color choices, one side featuring an E Ink screen, and the addition of a shoulder strap (image).“ Source: Macrumors

J2ME and RESTful Web Service

I’m currently working on project involving a J2ME client on a mobile phone connecting to a Rails RESTful web service. As you might know, a RESTful web services utilizes the four HTTP verbs GET, POST, PUT and DELETE. So yesterday we started to write unit tests, running on a J2ME device, which test if the [...]