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2007-04-16

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"I am a software developer, therefore this is obviously a hardware problem."

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Jürg Lehni: "I like to refer to [Bootstrap [JS]] as the Swiss version of all JavaScript frameworks, as I have put most work in the details of its underpinnings and have tried to get it right [in] every detail, while largely relying on other libraries for the actual functionality,^* but adding changes where I considered them necessary."

^* Is that a characteristicum helveticum too?

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Michael Arrington: Desktop Tower Defense Should Be Banned

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Finally, Microsoft gives up on its ambition to become a perfect clone of an around-1990 IBM with regards to branding: WPF/E (E?!^*) is now known as Microsoft Silverlight.

Tim Sneath: Introducing Microsoft Silverlight

From a first look at some samples, Silverlight will have one heck of a hard time competing against Flash; in the (not so terribly?) long run they're all dead as Open Web platforms will sport the video element, an OpenGL ES-enhanced canvas and pretty darn good JITters (e.g. Tamarin).

^* Adobe recently released Flash 9 (beta) for Solaris.

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Greg Linden on the DoubleClick acquisition (which strikes me as singularly ungoogly, too): "I have a hard time seeing this as anything but a defensive move."

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