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2 years ago
in Don’t try to use your iPhone inside an Apple store on Scobleizer
I was in up in Redmond a while back and I wanted to show my wife (back in NZ) what the produce selection inside a WholeFoods was like.
So out came my camera, after about 2 photos I got told off, seems I could be a competitor doing surveillance or something. The fact that if I was a competitor I would probably do it more discreetly is besides the point of course.
Why let common sense get in the way of an annoying policy?
So out came my camera, after about 2 photos I got told off, seems I could be a competitor doing surveillance or something. The fact that if I was a competitor I would probably do it more discreetly is besides the point of course.
Why let common sense get in the way of an annoying policy?
2 years ago
in Microsoft postpones PDC on Scobleizer
"Alex? So much cool stuff? Silverlight indeed was cool but was a repurposing of .NET and wasn’t that major."
Ah but I think you are missing the importance of things like Astoria... I have pretty good idea of the long term direction of Astoria and it is pretty much going to take us into the realm of Intentional Programming. I have a whole series of posts on this stretching back over a year now. This was the first: http://www.base4.net/blog.aspx?ID=36
See the value in REST is that it forces you to create intentional systems. And there is no better way to integrate systems... and some people at Microsoft get that now.
More importantly intentional systems plus meta-data about those systems will make it possible to create smart interfaces that allow for end-users not programmers to program systems (albeit by simply expressing their intent), the possibilities for the end-user experience and giving power to users are enormous...
but then maybe I am getting ahead of myself!
Ah but I think you are missing the importance of things like Astoria... I have pretty good idea of the long term direction of Astoria and it is pretty much going to take us into the realm of Intentional Programming. I have a whole series of posts on this stretching back over a year now. This was the first: http://www.base4.net/blog.aspx?ID=36
See the value in REST is that it forces you to create intentional systems. And there is no better way to integrate systems... and some people at Microsoft get that now.
More importantly intentional systems plus meta-data about those systems will make it possible to create smart interfaces that allow for end-users not programmers to program systems (albeit by simply expressing their intent), the possibilities for the end-user experience and giving power to users are enormous...
but then maybe I am getting ahead of myself!
2 years ago
in Microsoft postpones PDC on Scobleizer
Seriously though is this really a surprise?
Mix07 was filled with so much cool new stuff it might as well have been a PDC?
I was wondering what they had left over to unveil at the real PDC...
Mix07 was filled with so much cool new stuff it might as well have been a PDC?
I was wondering what they had left over to unveil at the real PDC...
2 years ago
in Amazon names Naked Conversations one of top 10 books of 2006 on Scobleizer
Yeah it must have made it big, because I was walking around my local library (Auckland Central, NZ) and it was positioned in pride of place on the display shelf at the end of an aisle...
Caught my attention immediately, I was amazed that such a current book was in the library... So I'm reading it now!
Sorry though, I suppose that means no royalties...
Caught my attention immediately, I was amazed that such a current book was in the library... So I'm reading it now!
Sorry though, I suppose that means no royalties...
2 years ago
in Application UIs - automating the CRUD on Phil Dawes' Stuff
Hey Phil... I just posted some screenshots of the SchemaBrowser/Builder app that now allows you to create as well as browse schemas, it is now near completion. I think of this as a Developer or Analyst tool.
As you can see it is a WebApp.
Next step is the a List/ListBuilder application, which will also be a WebApp. I am starting on that now. This List/ListBuilder application will be targeted at end users rather than developers.
I look at it like this: Developers or Analysts lay a framework of data down using the SchemaBrowser/Builder, which the end users can then use to create Lists to report on and edit that data.
Anyway you might be interested.
As you can see it is a WebApp.
Next step is the a List/ListBuilder application, which will also be a WebApp. I am starting on that now. This List/ListBuilder application will be targeted at end users rather than developers.
I look at it like this: Developers or Analysts lay a framework of data down using the SchemaBrowser/Builder, which the end users can then use to create Lists to report on and edit that data.
Anyway you might be interested.
2 years ago
in Application UIs - automating the CRUD on Phil Dawes' Stuff
Phil I have been working on something like this on and off for sometime. I already have a system for wrapping and extending existing databases in a schematized way called Base4... which is very similar to what MS promised with WinFS. Base4 allows you to register schemas at runtime.
The key then is a gui to use this rich and powerful foundation, I have been playing around with a schema designer (www.base4.net/blog.aspx?ID=11) which I plan on extending in an application called work the list (www.base4.net/blog.aspx?ID=6).In which people can create views (or lists) over the relational data exposed by Base4. These views will in time be read/write. They key to the power of this is that Base4 can wrap multiple databases and make them look like one,by using Schema based declarative integration.
I think this is quite similar to what you are talking about. Interested in your thoughts
Alex
The key then is a gui to use this rich and powerful foundation, I have been playing around with a schema designer (www.base4.net/blog.aspx?ID=11) which I plan on extending in an application called work the list (www.base4.net/blog.aspx?ID=6).In which people can create views (or lists) over the relational data exposed by Base4. These views will in time be read/write. They key to the power of this is that Base4 can wrap multiple databases and make them look like one,by using Schema based declarative integration.
I think this is quite similar to what you are talking about. Interested in your thoughts
Alex
3 years ago
in Has Microsoft changed? WinFS post getting questioned internally on Scobleizer
Robert,
On Don Box's blog Michael Herman left what I think is a very insightful comment:
"The strategic importance and success of a technology at Microsoft is almost totally dependent the extent to which it is adopted and integrated into other Microsoft products", Michael Herman (about 1990)
When Windows stopped believing in the WinFS vision (at least for the next round of o/s releases) and Microsoft Business Solutions didn't pick it, the list of interesting internal WinFS customers was almost non-existent."
That sounds on the money too me.
Personally I think that Microsoft have just questioned their initial assumption that WinFS had to be a clientside file system, with all the inherent security, performance and compatibility issues that entails.
By focusing on making a server offering I think they will get something out a lot quicker.
On Don Box's blog Michael Herman left what I think is a very insightful comment:
"The strategic importance and success of a technology at Microsoft is almost totally dependent the extent to which it is adopted and integrated into other Microsoft products", Michael Herman (about 1990)
When Windows stopped believing in the WinFS vision (at least for the next round of o/s releases) and Microsoft Business Solutions didn't pick it, the list of interesting internal WinFS customers was almost non-existent."
That sounds on the money too me.
Personally I think that Microsoft have just questioned their initial assumption that WinFS had to be a clientside file system, with all the inherent security, performance and compatibility issues that entails.
By focusing on making a server offering I think they will get something out a lot quicker.
