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Nice looking library for manipulating CSS via JavaScript.
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Nice… a modern library for refactoring Python code. I’d love to see this integrated with TextMate.
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Adrian Holovaty’s project that takes multiple files (say web pages, for instance), finds out where they differ and uses that as a template for extracting future data.
Archive for November, 2007
Nov
17
2007
Google, wireless and core competenciesPosted by: Kevin Dangoor in Money, tags: google, wireless businessApparently, Google is readying a bid for wireless spectrum. They’ve got the cash to buy the spectrum, but the analysts say that they must get a carrier partner:
To me, this is confusing Google’s revenue model with the things it is competent to do. Certainly, Google has proven itself quite competent in the online advertising space, and it generates gobs of revenue from there. But I can think of something else they are capable of: running a large-scale, wide-area TCP/IP network. Google has no experience running a traditional landline or cellular phone network. The thingsis that no one wants a traditional network. They’re all trying to move to IP-based networks. Hey, and Google knows how to run one of those. Remember those rumors of Google buying up dark fiber? If that’s true, I’m inclined to think that Google is seriously considering owning a good chunk of infrastructure to provide services as it sees fit. One thing in the original article that I linked to that does ring true: Google enjoys gigantic profit margins on its current services. Unless they have some extremely non-traditional ideas up their sleeves, competing with traditional carriers is a very low margin business. It’s going to be interesting to watch where this goes. Maybe their real plan is just to bid up the spectrum a bit to put a squeeze on the carriers for the fun of it.
Nov
15
2007
Not fair! Apple releases Final Cut Express 4Posted by: Kevin Dangoor in Money, Technology, tags: apple, final cutOn Tuesday, I ordered Final Cut Express 3.5 with overnight shipping because I had some screencast work to do. I got it yesterday and installed it. Today, Apple released Final Cut Express 4. They’ve lowered the list price to $199 from $299 (luckily, I paid about $230). I don’t so much care about that part… what I do care about is that I don’t want to have to pay $100 to upgrade to FCE4, when I just yesterday paid more than the new price for the product. Yes, yes, new products come out, technology changes, yadda yadda. Remember the iPhone price drop that people were complaining about? If you bought an iPhone within 14 days of that price drop, you got that money back. If you bought a computer within a few weeks of Leopard’s release, you could get Leopard for $10. I have no problem with paying $10 to cover the media cost for FCE4. Unfortunately, the Apple customer service rep said there was no such deal, and that my only recourse was to try to return FCE 3.5 to the reseller I bought it from. I called them, but what could they do? They can’t take opened software back! I’m going to try the time-tested technique of calling Apple again and talking to a different rep. Dear lazyweb: if you happen to know of an Apple policy about this, please post a comment here. Thanks.
Nov
13
2007
Dojo Offline + Google Gears talk at CodeMashPosted by: Kevin Dangoor in Software Development, tags: codemashThe complete CodeMash Conference Session List is up now, and it looks like both of my talk proposals were accepted! I mentioned earlier that I’ll be giving an overview of the Dojo JavaScript Toolkit there. It turns out that I’ll also be giving a talk on Dojo Offline + Google Gears for taking your web applications on the road. |



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