platforms
Yahoo! User Interface Library: amazing and free
In my very first days at Yahoo! working with the team that made the Local Events Browser demo using a bunch of Yahoo! APIs, I was really amazed at the Javascript/CSS talent assembled at Yahoo! As of today, a huge chunk of it is out there for anyone to use and the people who […]
Salesforce.com and API metrics
Although I’m not as engaged with the topics of software and services for the enterprise as I used to be, I’m still keeping up with what’s going on at Salesforce.com. I was a customer in my InfoWorld days and also wrote some nice things about their web services platform early on in its development. […]
Mashup Camp: a cool idea
David Berlind is working on a simple but killer concept for an “unconference” he’s calling “Mashup Camp” (and he’s already got the domain mashupcamp.com, so it’s not just an idle idea):
My goal for Mashup Camp is to do the opposite of what all these other Web 2.0-esque conferences are doing. It won’t be invitation […]
Platforms and the rule of three
Back in my old gig, I wrote a feature-length story entitled “Top 20 IT Mistakes” and wrote a followup blog post in which I referenced the excellent Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert Glass, writing:
The book contains 55 facts ranging from the people-specific (”Fact 1: The most important factor in software work is […]