Jesse Ezell Blog

"The reason why Macromedia's idea has merit has little to do with the actual programming tools, and much more to do with it's runtime. "
[Comments from Lance]

Jeremy Allaire (who left MM to work for a VC company) has posted details of a recent interview with the co-founder of Google.

I just mentioned that Macromedia was throwing the idea around that Flash could be used for desktop apps a few days ago. Seems that ZDNET has picked up on it as well:

"So, in the previous example, you decide to submit a strongly-typed DataSet of rows back via the WebService when synchronizing. You then enumerate the rows of the DataSet table and create instances of the custom business objects. On each business object you call its Save() method. What does your WebMethod return? Does it return:

"Far from being the Great Satan, I would say that we are the Great Protector. We have sent men and women from the armed forces of the United States to other parts of the world throughout the past century to put down oppression. We defeated Fascism. We defeated Communism. We saved Europe in World War I and World War II.

"NASIRIYA, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. Marines searching Iraqi military headquarters in this southern city that was the site of intensive fighting came across a mural depicting a plane crashing into a building complex resembling New York's twin towers, a news agency photograph showed Wednesday."
[CNN]

"Moderated by John Hagel, noted author, with a panel of notable CIOs for extremely large companies.

Mono can now run Windows Forms apps on top of Linux¹. If you are interested in eventually using Mono, you can take a survey to help the Ximian people figure out what to do with it by emailing: monoresearch@ximian.com.