Getting Started with Swift, For NON-Apple Devs
This past weekend I attempted to get started with Swift coding. Since I have not been an Apple Developer for a while, it wasn’t immediately obvious how to get started. But once I fumbled around a few minutes I realized I needed a developer account to get the latest XCode. Jeez, it really shows how […]
Still Some Ripples in Google Wave Beta
As part of a MeetUp this week, Gina Trapani founder of LifeHacker gave us an update on the status of Google Wave. Since another 100,000 people are to be given access to the Beta in a few weeks I was extremely interested in the update. Here’s my take: Despite Google’s recent announcement on Wave, I […]
SaaS Users Need a New Mindset
Image by antrix via Flickr Few weeks back, Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho (Disclaimer: Zoho is the sponsor of this blog but this is my independent opinion), wrote a blog post addressing the criticism about the lack of integration among the Zoho product offerings. We have seen users of SaaS talking about the betaish nature […]
The Anti-Beta Revolution. Or is it a Counter-Revolution?
Gizmodo has just issued A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture – great article, and boy, do I love the illustration!. I’m tired of this beta culture that has spread like metastatic cancer in the last few years, starting with software from Google and others and ending up in almost every gadget and computer system […]
The Skype Beta Downgrade – First Impressions
First, kudos to Skype – for listening to customers, many of whom considered the first Skype 4.0 beta’s full-screen a deal-breaker. Yes, they listened and gave us a compact view, somewhat similar to good old 3.x, which is why I installed it in the first place, but after an hour or so I am ready […]
