... Are you kidding? The fact that other apps pause when you're not watching them is a great feature. Do you really want the game you're playing to time out,...
I've never used any hardware or software I didn't find fault with. So, too, with the iPhone. But it's a phone. The only thing that has ever truly made me crazy...
Just downloaded the jailbreak Clippy app - adds cut and paste without a web server. Still a work in progress but decent. On Jan 30, 2009, at 2:54 PM, "Mica...
... That is exactly my point. Let's use intelligence and current facts (not hyperbole or some vendor's or consultant's "best practices" document) when making...
... In my experience, the deployment issue is a straw-man. Windows makes it easy to deploy arbitrary apps to users' desktops. In the call center app I talked...
... Right, I think we've been in agreement since the start of this thread. ... This offends me as my former company used to build 5 of these integrations...
... In other words, people who don't think carefully about what they are doing will build a poor application. It doesn't really matter what sort of app they...
... I think this sums up very well how I feel about the whole issue. I'm not opposed to building a web app as long as careful consideration is done and it's...
Pretty sure we don't need 5 eyars to complain about bad mobile apps. On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Simon MacDonald ... [Non-text portions of this message...
... Disagree. Not a straw man at all. It's easier to release or deploy a web app - period. Update your server with the new software. Done. On occasion, if...
Second the disagree, And second to David. Deployment is a nightmare. Internal with <100 not so bad, Internal > 100, mutiple sites = not fun, external customer...
... Doesn't anybody else find it just a little bit ironic that Flex, Ajax, Web 2.0, GWT et al. exist so that web developers can build applications that behave...
... My normal development routine involves writing FitNesse test and unit tests. I can launch a FitNesse test in the background and go back to the unit test or...
... Ironic? No. But it certainly makes sense. By using them you gain the benefits of web apps without losing some of the functionality you know and love...
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:40 AM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@...>wrote: ... Such as? I'm honestly asking because I don't know the answer. -- Esse Quam...
... Egads! You honestly *don't* know the answer?!?!?!? Methinks you're not thinking very hard! :-) Fine, I'll list a few. * JNLP/Webstart requires 1 or 2...
Let me add a HUGE one... Event processing...the browser does it by default. I had a team spin their wheels for 2 years because they couldn't get event...
... Correction, that is 1 piece of software: the Sun JRE includes WebStart. In the corporate environment, even that benefit is nearly negated because every...
... Really? How does a browser help you wrt multiple submission problems, back/forward navigation, bookmarking, etc? The browser actually CREATES those...
It was idiot stuff...Sharktank fodder Every event had its own class of I_MyStupidEventClass. Every component had to implement every event, or the build failed....
This has been a truly fascinating discussion, and I hope it doesn't get so heated that we need to create Straight-Talking-Web-Apps_vs_native-apps. Anyway, what...
http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2009/01/31/quality-doesnt-matter-that-much-jeff-and-joel I haven't listened to that podcast at this point, but if what's...
... The thing is, we are supposed to believe what a technical god he is, I mean all submit to his opinion as to "how developers work" and the like, yet on more...
... Well, I don't think he's always wrong. There's still a good number of times that I read interesting and useful things from him. But he's definitely way...
... Yeah but all that stuff he goes on about regarding "developers get offices of their own". The best teams I've worked in are all in the one room, clustered...
... Joel is the Jim Rome of software development. Entertaining to listen to, but at the end of the day pretty much just full of schiste. -- Curtis Cooley ...
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