Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Airport Express and Video streaming

So, when is Apple planning on releasing a version of Airport Express with support for video streaming?

I'm waiting for Sep when (hopefully) we'll have some news from Apple.

I have a NAS drive with built-in iTunes support which I'd like to use as a home media server. Airport Express' would act as the media clients and could be hooked up to home stereo system.

Buffalo Linkstation Pro (built-in iTunes support) + Airport Express + iTouch/iPhone Remote + TV/Home Stereo = Entire Home Audio/Video network

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Apple

Observations on my recently purchased iMac

<1> It just works (mostly)
<2> The interface is very intuitive and easy to use
<3> Bells and Whistles are already bundled into the base OS, so why buy additional software (a la Microsoft Windows)
<4> It is pricey compared to a Windows box

What's NeXT for the iMac?

With the onslaught of Software As A Service and Web 2.0, what is the future of computers?

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Pair Programming to the nth

Have you tried programming (not coding) with more than 1 developer as your pair? Its fun (if everyone leaves their ego at the door), highly productive and extremely high quality.

Give it a shot! Connect your laptop to a projector and have the group help you write better code. The results will be quite surprising!

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Ironic?

Isn't it ironic that

(a) HTTP is a stateless protocol
(b) Companies have built stateful applications to overcome the stateless-ness of the internet

and

(c) we're now in the midst of a return to stateless-ness euphoria

Of course, I'm generalizing a lot here but something to think about.

Day 1

The beginning of a blog -
Why blog? Because everyone else is doing it.