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Joyent's David Young has a conviction that the days of the operating system are numbered, as part of his
Joyent Manifesto - Quo vadis, Computing he writes:
“The operating system is dead. Long live the operating system. If the future is network applications, the past is the operating system.”
I think David has oversimplified the concept of […]

Mr Hunt’s comment on my pet hate, the
cross platform user interface:
“I'm not against cross-platform libraries, or cross-platform applications. But giving the same UI to every OS isn't a good solution.”
It isn't a good solution, but one often mooted as the 'best' compromise. The downside of that middle ground choice is that it will offset […]

I note there seems to be yet another reason for part of the Apple community to complain first and ask questions later. This time, rather than consumer cries of
unfair practices, it’s Java developers that are
raging against the machine.
It does appear some cooler heads have surfaced with a little voice of reason regarding the […]

There has been some recent activity around a re-born Mozilla application, previously named
WebRunner, now called named
Prism1.

There is some
good coverage of Prism, particularly via
dailyapps, as well as
developer notes, which all do a damn fine job of describing it’s purpose.
If you want to skip the detailed view, it can be most succinctly […]

There has been a recent trend of late that suggests suspending good sense, logic and reason is the order of the day.
I believe an example is in order. Tony Celeste
writes:
Does Steve Jobs have some secret business vision that none of us can comprehend, or has he just reached the point of being so […]