Programming and politics

This past week was Microsoft's MIX conference. I almost went to it, and I would have gone if it was not the same week as my oldest son...

Recently I did a comparison of JavaFX performance vs. Scala . I did this mostly for kicks, and because some people thought that Mr. JavaFX w...

AjaxWorld was this week, and it was interesting. I think the down economy is having an affect on everyone, but there were still a lot of int...

This is the last benchmark for awhile. Well, at least for today. I converted the JS benchmarks to ActionScript and tested them. The result w...

Ever since details of Silverlight 2.0 came out, I planned on re-doing my stocks app using it. This is an app that I first wrote for a GWT t...

I was at a demo today that was showing off an application that was designed to be a reference implementation / blueprint app. Of course it h...

A couple of days ago, I talked about Silverlight 2.0. One of the interesting things to me was that it was how Silverlight RIA-style apps cou...

I attended an MSDN talk this week on Silverlight. It was given by Microsoft evangelist Anand Iyer . If you've been to any Microsoft deve...

I'm starting to write the Stocks application with Silverlight. I installed Visual Studio Orcas. That took forever. I installed the Silve...

As planned , I re-implemented the Stocks application from the first GWT tutorial using Adobe Flex. Here is a link to a short document I put...

The web browser is one of the great equalizers of the world. It's why Microsoft feared Netscape. If something runs in the browser, it do...

As I mentioned earlier, I gave the JavaFX plugin for Eclipse a try. I was not too impressed. So I went through the monstorous download of Ne...

The transformation of F3 into JavaFX continues. I had signed up for the Form Follows Function (F3) session, but F3 was renamed JavaFX yester...

I guess the big news out of JavaOne today is JavaFX . The more I heard about it, the more it sounded familiar. Sure there's the obvious ...

Microsoft's announcement of Silverlight seems to have really caught a lot of attention. I'm having a hard time understanding this. W...

Interesting news on Adobe open sourcing some of the Flex platform. Here is a cool video from the Scoble Show on the architecture . For the p...