Kindle Session at Cloud Expo
Barnes and Noble just recently unveiled their upcoming eReader, the Nook.
On the blog of my non-techy alter-ego I've posted a comparison of the two
readers that is entirely based on my own personal feelings of what is cool
and what isn't, so take it as opinion and certainly not as a technical
review.
So far I've remained relatively aloof from the whole "eBook" craze.
Ordinarily, given my geeky background and borderline insane craving for
technology, one would think that I'd be all over these things. The problem
is, my love for the written word also extends to a love for the experience of
reading a book.
Click here to check out the blog post.
Call me crazy, but I love the smudged thumbs I get from a 3-hour reading
session where the real world ceased to exist and it was just me and my
alternate reality, lovingly prepared for me by my fav... (more)
Cloud Hosting Journal on Ulitzer
Yesterday a friend of mine was asking me what I've been doing lately in my
spare time. When I mentioned that I'd been doing a lot of messing around with
Windows Azure, he was naturally curious. After explaining what Azure is, he
asked me what the difference was between Windows Azure, a cloud computing
environment, and traditional web hosting scenarios.
On a really high level, he's got a valid point : With Azure you can develop
your application offline locally and then when you're done you can publish it
to a remote host. To the casual observer, th... (more)
Kevin Hoffman's Blog
Lately there's been a lot of buzz about Orcas. You keep hearing about
Silverlight and the Entity Framework and Jasper and Astoria and who knows how
many other code names. One of the things that you don't hear about is PNRP.
Why? I haven't the faintest idea because this is some of the coolest stuff to
surface as a .NET API since .NET 1.0 reshaped our opinion of streams.
While experimenting with Orcas, I noticed that the PNRP (Peer Name Resolution
Protocol) did in fact have a managed API. It is exposed through
System.Net.PeerToPeer in the Beta 1 bits. PNRP is ba... (more)
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Hopefully you saw me during the RIA Shootout that was held live yesterday
from the Times Square TV Studio in the Reuters building. The panel discussion
was all about RIAs, the future of RIAs, AJAX, where it's all headed and what
the landscape looks like. In attendance were Java folks, a representative
from Adobe who works in the Flex division, an open source advocate, Coach Wei
(the founder of the OpenAJAX alliance and CTO/Founder of Nexaweb), and Roger
Strukhoff, SYS-CON Publisher, who hosted and moderated the event. Oh, and
me. I was there too :)... (more)
Kevin Hoffman's Blog
Before I start into the editorial, here's a quick timeline for reference:
January 2007 - Apple holds a Leopard Tech Talk in New York City. I attend and
am absolutely blown away by what I see there. January 2007 (a week later) - I
sign up for the Apple Developer Connection February 2007 - I purchase a 17"
MacBook Pro June 2007 - I actually get to present at Apple's Worldwide
Developer Conference (WWDC) February 2008 - I will be the track chair as well
as a presenter at the iPhone Developer Summit in NYC (Part of
AJAXWorld)Since I purchased my ADC subscription i... (more)