jernst on July 4th, 2011

One of my pet-peeves … fortunately the SOAP vs. REST debates are largely over, with SOAP fading into the history books. But REST is still misunderstood, and sadly so. Steve Klabnik has the latest great REST explanation. Coincidentally we implemented some ideas in InfoGrid for what he says is missing in REST, such as content [...]

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jernst on March 5th, 2010

I was thinking the other day how Apple now has a contiguous line of screen sizes from 30 inches down to just a couple of inches (Desktop Mac, MacBook, iPad, iPhone, iPod nano). They don’t do TVs, so there is still room at the large end. But they have all other sizes covered. So if [...]

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jernst on March 4th, 2010

The Economist writes (apparently quoting this pronouncement) that: By 2017 there could be 7 trillion wirelessly connected devices and objects — about 1000 per person. Personally, I think their timing is off: I can believe that the hardware can be built by 2017, but not that we figured out how to manage or use them. [...]

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jernst on March 3rd, 2010

The other day, I’m looking out the window on the street in front of our house, and see this elderly couple walking by our house. That happens all the time, of course, but this was different: both of them had Bluetooth headsets on their ears. They looked like they had been married for a long [...]

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jernst on January 27th, 2010

Kindle started the trend, and with the iPad now it is clear that books are gradually going electronic, just like music before them. A few months ago, I banned all music CDs from our house, because all they did was collect dust. We had not touched a CD for years as iPods and iTunes took [...]

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