June 2005 - Posts

• IE7 breaks cover

  Today at Gnomedex , Microsoft showed Internet Explorer 7. In fact, they only showed the RSS-related features of IE7 and despite lots of hype , I'm underwhelmed. Let's look at what was announced: IE has an RSS button and can render RSS No big deal. Both Read More... Posted Friday, June 24, 2005 9:39 PM by rbirkby | 1 Comments

• XSLT processing on the client

  Faced with a web browser that doesn't have XSLT?....erm....that'll be Opera then... Just use Google's implementation of XSLT written in Javascript !!! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponsor Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 22, 2005 11:41 AM by rbirkby | 0 Comments

• .net popularity amongst students

  .Net is popular amongst students. How do I know? Well, Google's Summer of Code encourages students to contribute to open source software projects during summer 2005. This encouragement takes the form of money. One of those open source projects is the Read More... Posted Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:52 AM by rbirkby | 2 Comments

• Do what you want

  Steve Jobs on life Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponsor Read More... Posted Thursday, June 16, 2005 11:17 AM by rbirkby | 0 Comments

• What Mark Anders did next

  Am I the last to find out that Mark Anders, the co-founder (along with scottgu ) of the ASP.Net team has left Microsoft...and joined Macromedia. From Tim O'Reilly : A side note that may be of interest: the project lead for Zorn is none other than Mark Read More... Posted Thursday, June 09, 2005 11:39 AM by rbirkby | 2 Comments

• Apple/Intel

  Following my previous post about the rumours regarding Apple and Intel chips, The Register says that Apple have licensed software from an Anglo-US company called Transitive who specialize in instruction set to instruction set mapping. Indeed, in September Read More... Posted Monday, June 06, 2005 4:03 PM by rbirkby | 0 Comments

• Will Apple use Intel?

  There are rumours Apple will announce a switch to Intel processors on Monday (6th June). It is not the first time that Apple have switched processor architectures - back in the 1990's they switched from Motorola 68000's to the Motorola/IBM PowerPC CPU Read More... Posted Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:03 AM by rbirkby | 2 Comments

• London Geek Dinner

  There's a Geek Dinner with Scoble in London next Tuesday. Currently, there are 172 people signed up. That's not a geek dinner! That's a conference! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponsor Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 01, 2005 8:53 AM by rbirkby | 0 Comments