http://singlethreaded.org/blog Technical musings about the software industry by Tom Gissel Thu, 29 May 2008 21:31:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Usually I don't like to pass along links to articles without some sort of technical comment on its content, but in this case I'll let the author's words do the talking. This is a particularly interesting topic for me because I was part of the original POC team that enabled ebay on WAS back ... http://singlethreaded.org/blog/2008/05/29/scaling-at-ebay/ I've been busily building middleware to enable Web 2.0 application creation for about 2 years, but until recently haven't fully realized the full impact of this social revolution.  My enlightenment started a couple weekends ago when my sister-in-law, Amy, told me she'd been part of a conversation with her younger colleagues where they were ... http://singlethreaded.org/blog/2008/04/11/what-is-real/ I read this fascinating post from Paul Murphy, but it makes me wonder.... Hasn't Paul heard the news, Java has code completion.ShareThis http://singlethreaded.org/blog/2008/04/10/apparently-this-guy-hasnt-heard-the-news/ OK, I admit it. I may have been wrong about Apple not caring about us nerds. Steve now says: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February Cool. I'm not so sure this an altruistic move, but then again ... http://singlethreaded.org/blog/2007/10/17/steve-loves-us-he-really-loves-us/ All the nerds I know, which is pretty much everyone, are all pissed-off at Apple due to the much publicized iPhone bricking. Personally I think there is mass confusion here in the geekosphere. When Apple did nothing but sell computers it existed for and was powered by we nerds. Apple ... http://singlethreaded.org/blog/2007/10/11/nerds-vs-the-new-apple/