Nov
27
Yet another idea
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As it always is - it started pretty banally. I had an idea and a friend of mine had one. We talked. We talked some more. We agreed that merging our ideas into one system would… just rock! It didn’t take long until we committed ourselves into making it real.
Simply put, it’s a kind of […]
Nov
21
Memory in new Firefox
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It’s not unusal for Firefox 2 to grow to over 500MB over a day (I keep it running all the time). It seems someone has perfomed a memory usage comparison of FF2 and FF3.
If FF3 behaves so nicely, I’m really looking forward to it!
Nov
15
Although I should be doing something else, Boo, IronPython and .NET kept occupying my mind. So I made a small coding experiment.
First, I downloaded IKVM. Then - SWT. I compiled SWT jar to a dll. No problems here.
Then I wrote a SWT hello world in IronPython. To be honest - I took a Java […]
Nov
13
Boo
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Although I’ve heard of Boo before, it never came on my radar. However, recently the boojay emerged and I found myself curious enough to take a closer look.
And you know what? It’s pretty neat!
There are number of features which almost instantly had me sold:
Python-like syntax. I’m a big Python fan. I value its syntax […]
Nov
9
On models
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Identifying an underlying principle helps. Once I know what I really want, I’m able to find more ways to achieve it. I’ve been thinking on business models of how to earn a living with own software company.
First, there is a Web 2.0 startup. It’s been very popular recently. You basically come up with a super-duper […]
Nov
4
I’ve been thinking about the company ideas I mentioned the other day. Currently I consider two candidates. But it’s not what I want to write about.
I was trying to find the reason why I want to build them and why I want to start a company. Self-analysis is not easy but I think I found […]
Nov
3
Famous for being famous
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Everybody is talking about Facebook now. The social site. The new application platform. The new web. Microsoft pays insane amount of hard cash for share…
Why?
I set up an account to see what’s that. And I can’t see the reason to use it. Not a single one. Can anyone tell me - why would I want […]