When your web application is responding slowly, there are several levels at which the problem could be occurring. Until you instrument the application and begin the diagnostic journey, you really don’t know whether the problem is. It is often difficult to convince business stakeholders to allocate budget to uncover and fix an undefined problem, rather [...] →
It is no secret that the iPhone does not support Flash. Steve Jobs went as far as to explicitly rule out support of Flash by name, in his famous 2011 speech. And now, Adobe has responded by announcing they will no longer support or further develop the Flash platform. Instead, Adobe is quietly releasing a [...] →
I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily [...] →
Imagine creating a Rich Internet Application (RIA) built entirely using JavaScript, from client to server. What would it look like? I’ve already discussed the benefits of HTML5 and the coming Web 3.0 movement in recent posts so I will not into those details now. Instead, I want to focus on what an application like that [...] →
Web 3.0 has begun and its not what you think. I don’t think many people realized what Web 2.0 was until we were at the height of it, and already seeing the capabilities that had been set out years before it. But imagine if we had all realized in 2001 what was possible and all [...] →
Have you looked at the new features that are part of HTML5? I must admit that it took me some time to actually look at it because I dismissed it as just some new markup to have to deal with. In that way, its really not correct for this to be labeled as HTML at [...] →
Anyone who has watched Google’s product releases over the past 5 years knows that the Silicon Valley giant has much greater ambitions than to simply be the World’s best search engine. In recent years they have effectively built and consolidated the Internet’s dominant advertising platform, and released both B2B and B2C products that span just [...] →
I’ve noticed recently that more and more of the sites I have visited, are proudly stating they are made in an American city. Hunch.com was the first I saw with a message in the footer stating “Made in NYC”. I followed the link and found hundreds startups in the NYC area that have all agreed [...] →
My ego tells me that anything I create should always be of the highest quality. As a developer, that means, I need to use the latest hottest technology and the most sophisticated framework. How dare I write PHP spaghetti code when I have Ruby on Rails or Spring MVC to choose from? If you are [...] →
“We will see more change in the next 3 years in the way consumers shop and pay than we’ve seen in the previous 15 years. Offline retail hasn’t changed that much in the last 15 years. Ecommerce has been fairly distinct from the offline experience. Smartphones are blurring the lines between offline and online faster [...] →