http://www.devside.net/blog Linux, Windows, MacOS? Who cares. Just give me something that works! Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:58:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With DVD sales plummeting 20% year after year, the future is 100% online streaming. Qwikster has a death sentence. In 10 years not a single person is going to be getting DVDs-by-mail, not when they can have it all with instant streaming; on their TVs, PCs, Xboxes, iPhones, etc. So what do you ... http://www.devside.net/blog/netflix-sinister-plot-called-qwikster A few weeks ago Microsoft released a preview video of Windows 8. Almost immediately developers all over the internet became enraged that Windows 8 was throwing away the platform and framework they have been working with / hedged their bets on: CLR (Runtime) + .NET Framework + C# (language). Except that ... http://www.devside.net/blog/windows-8-apps-using-html5-js The ASF (Apache Software Foundation) organizes and hosts talks every year. I've gathered links to keynotes from this year's conference and videos from 2009 and 2008. Start with the videos if you are mostly interested in the Apache Web Server. It seems to be a very small part of the 2010 slides. ApacheCon ... http://www.devside.net/blog/apachecon-videos-and-talks I installed Google Toolbar in IE8 on Windows Vista. It took up an entire cpu on a 4 core processor, ballooned IE load time from 1 second to 15 seconds, caused tabs to crash, and just made the entire system sluggish. And that was after I turned all the toolbar's options off. It's ... http://www.devside.net/blog/google-toolbar-cpu-memor link http://www.devside.net/blog/past-and-future-trends-of-user-experience DP (Digital Protector) is back with the new revised message! 1992's version... Don't Copy That Floppy Wikipedia entry. http://www.devside.net/blog/copy-that-floppy-hip-hop-hit UNIQLOCK (flash app) http://www.devside.net/blog/flash-app-not-on-your-ipad Google Took A Principled Stand On China. I doubt it. Ask yourself this... What is it that has changed since Google entered the Chinese market in 2006? Google knew what they were getting themselves into: dealing with censored results, government interference, corporate espionage (sanctioned by the state), and much much more. Not to ... http://www.devside.net/blog/google-took-a-principled-stand-on-china Note: the video is labeled "The ACL is Dead" but that's not what it really is about. Zed Shaw - The ACL is Dead from CUSEC on Vimeo. http://www.devside.net/blog/zed-corporate-autis Every day I get up, turn my system on and spend a few hours reading the blogs I follow. And every day I read posts hating Microsoft for reasons that can only be explained by a serious misunderstanding of reality. Here I present you Google Failures of Epic Proportions (a.k.a the ... http://www.devside.net/blog/google-failures-of-epic-proportions