http://www.notebookmargins.com/journal Marginal Notes on Internet Development Tue, 17 May 2005 18:50:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 I have to just say how amazed I am at LaszloSystems. In the last six months since going open source, they have created a roadmap to follow with a number of stages and met it's goals, come out with a new major version, made all the source available via Subversion, gotten ... http://www.notebookmargins.com/journal/index.php?p=20 Adobe is already in the 50's 60's again and apparently has been for months. They sure know how to make ducats. Maybe if I invest in them, it will offset the huge pricetags I expect to come out of this. That's too much for me though. I put my mm proceeds ... http://www.notebookmargins.com/journal/index.php?p=18 Ironic? Sad? Or a to be expected part of comercial software development? A bit of all. About 2 years ago I was looking at where to invest my retirement funds and saw that Macromedia's stock was only 6 and a half dollars a share, where Adobe's was around 40. Now this ... http://www.notebookmargins.com/journal/index.php?p=17 Every so often folk want to know how to compare them. This is my simple take on it. First of all, though xamlon might enter this group as yet another interesting option, I don't see XAML and it's official runtime as comparable. Since the above are all cross platform, web-based technologies ... http://www.notebookmargins.com/journal/index.php?p=12 Ok. That css book is awesome. I love the chapter(3) where it shows in a straightforward way the various degrees of fancy abstraction you can choose between with the various specs as a way of relating them. It's extrordinarily well written. I'm not going to bother redoing my site ... http://www.notebookmargins.com/journal/index.php?p=6 Well, before writing about any other types of fancy pants internet applications, I think I should focus some time on straight html based fancy pants first. I was always of the mind that you could do a lot with vanilla html, if you couldn't do enough with it for something ... http://www.notebookmargins.com/journal/index.php?p=5 As my first post under the "Fancy Pants Internet Applications" category, I want to try and summarize all the requirements that tend to make something truely "Fancy Pants". Most of these things will eventually take full posts to cover. I'll list them in the order in which I consider their ... http://www.notebookmargins.com/journal/index.php?p=4 There are a number of questions to answer at the dawn http://www.notebookmargins.com/journal/index.php?p=1