Daylight Savings Time
Is kicking my ass. I find it interesting though that everyone in the states coordinates this effort so well. DST is the one thing we all seem to agree on. See what we can do when we work together...we can change time! How 1984.
13-Year Streak Is Over
I just learned that Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. He held the title for 13 consecutive years! The richest man in the world is Warren Buffet. Second place goes to Carlos Slim Helu and trailing in third place is William Gates III. Bill ... step yo game up!
I Hate Fresh Prince
I was flipping through the cable channels and noticed Nick is airing Fresh Prince. I hate the Fresh Prince. I am not a fan of Will Smith or his idiotic antics. The theme song is annoying, comedy is lame, and the acting is mediocre. Arrggh! I hate it.
WordPress Code Tag Sucks!
I am trying to post WTF worthy code snippets, but WordPress keeps modifying the code. I assume WordPress is parsing the code or rendering the HTML or JavaScript. This is stupid, now I have to look for an alternate method to post the coding horrors.
I Need a Tissue …
I found more WTF worthy code! I have worked on some crappy maintenance projects, how did I survive the torture? This code is from an ASP.NET web form code-behind. Nice single-tier implementation and iteration through a data reader and writing JavaScript to client.
I do NOT make this stuff up. Enjoy peeps.
Eyes are burning!
No! I did not just see a butter face, it is worst. More Daily WTF code for your viewing and heckling enjoyment. Warning, viewing is not recommended for pregnant women or weak of heart. Btw, I am dying to post a particular piece of code. I will post it soon!
iPhone SDK and 2.0 Software Update
It looks like RIM better start worrying about how their Blackberry is going to stand up to the iPhone 2.0 coming in June. Apple has added a slew of features for the enterprise users out there. The iPhone 2.0 software update will be a free update for all current iPhone users that will added push email, push calendaring, push contacts, remote data wipe, and more. What... push? Yup... but how you ask? Apple has licensed Microsoft ActiveSync to provide full blown Microsoft Exchange support for your iPhone. Not only that, but they made it simpler to implement than RIM. You install software on your Exchange server that tracks any iPhones used in your company, and that pushes directly to the iPhones... no need for extra servers getting in the mix that could go down and take down your service... remember when a RIM server went down for a day awhile back and all Blackberry users were freaking? They still haven't given a reason for what happened. RIM... watch your back!
Now for the SDK... developers can download the SDK for free, but it requires an Intel Mac running OS X Leopard. You get all kinds of cool tools including a sweet interface builder, remote debugger, and a utility that will show you the CPU, memory, and framerate of your application in realtime as you test it. In order to distribute your software you must pay apple a $99 fee to become a software publisher on iTunes, and after that you can publish as many applications as you like through iTunes. You can make your software available for free or charge, and if you charge for it you will get 70% and 30% goes to Apple for overhead.
Oh... one last thing. Do you have a great idea for some really cool software? Well why not get some money to make it happen! KPCB's iFund has 100 million dollars waiting to give away to encourage developers to establish the iPhone as the platform of choice for mobile computing.
Need more info?
http://www.apple.com/iphone/enterprise/
SilverLight
Silverlight is Microsoft's answer to Flash Player. It runs on all the major platforms (including MAC). Currently they are about to release SilverLight 2.0 beta. We can use Javascript and .Net to develop things in Silverlight.
Here are some user samples: