tuaw is reporting that there are several ports of the Newton OS to Linux based devices that support X Windows, including the too-hip Nokia 770. Very cool.
The Newton was way ahead of its time and for me, was the first and last truly usable PDA. I’ve still got mine knocking around here somewhere…
technorati tags: newton, linux, apple, nokia
TheServerSide has a long and heated discussion on the value of using JavaServer Faces for web application development. This was sparked by a blog post with the somewhat incendiary title of “JSF: The 7-Layer Burrito I Won’t Eat Again“.
My question is: why does every discussion about JSF usually end with someone bringing up Tapestry rather than dealing with the merits and liabilities of JSF?
Over at Ajaxian, there is a discussion on Kavascript which is an attempt to make javascript a bit more like Ruby and Perl.
The general consensus seems to be that this is a very, very, bad idea (pre-compilation = debugging nightmare).
technorati tags: ajax, ruby, javascript
Someone actually when to the trouble of using the magic of IMDB to create a list of the non Star Wars movies that have the most Star Wars actors in them. Tied for the top? Flash Gordon and Labyrinth.
This makes me think about earlier in the week when my wife and I were watching a detective show on BBCAmerica called Touching Evil. One of the characters in that episode was the same actor that plays Chancellor Palpatine/Emperor in the Star Wars movies. This caused my wife to exclaim, ‘of course he did it, he’s the Emperor!’ Turns out, he did.
uh, hope that didn’t spoil it for anybody.
technorati tags: starwars, fun, imdb, trivia
Edd Dumbill has some commentary on the apparently appalling state of the underlying code in the new apple offerings.
Like sushi and folding paper? Then download and fold some PDF sushi.
Interested in web API mashups and curious who has mashed up what, then have a look at the Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix.
Finally, some thoughts about ruby as a scripting language in the browser.
technorati tags: ruby, ajax, sushi, apple, mashups
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