July, 2007

A Weekend at No Fluff Just Stuff

I just wrapped up a weekend attending No Fluff Just Stuff. To put it in a nutshell, it was the best technical conference I’ve ever attended, from the standpoint of the value it pays back for your time and money. Its salient features are:

it is a traveling show, so you don’t fly to it, it [...]

Who Needs Flash?

I was pretty amazed when I found out the iPhone browser wouldn’t support flash. It’s a little fishy; I can’t think of any technical reasons there can’t be a very solid flash player on there. I think Apple is intentionally locking it down because they don’t want to lose control of their platform overnight (and [...]

Maven 2 is a Go

Just finished my first Sakai build with Maven 2. Thanks Ian! This is going to take some getting used to: I have run Maven 1.0.2 around 10 times a day for the past three years. I may compile some notes about how Maven 2 is different.