iPad on Ulitzer
Yesterday, I finished my dinner in a French restaurant with traditional
crème brulee. This time I've also ordered a small glass of Sauternes wine.
Then we went to our friend's house to follow it with some good old port.
But no matter what software developers drink or eat in February 2010, one way
or the other the conversation will slide into a No-Flash-Player-on-iPad
discussion. Apple pretends that they will never allow Flash Player on Steve's
OS (SOS), because it's buggy. Adobe's CTO, Kevin Lynch, states that Apple
doesn't cooperate.
Jobs Has a Few Words for Google & Adobe
After the third round, I made a statement that when the dust settles,
everyone will thank Steve Jobs for forcing Adobe to make Flash Player better
and faster, which is a win-win sit... (more)
"We did not enter the search business. [Google] entered the phone business.
Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them...I want to
go back to that other question first and say one more thing. This don't be
evil mantra - It's bullshit." - Steve Jobs at an employee Town Hall the other
day according to Wired, MacRummors et al although he may have said "load of
crap" not... (more)
This Wednesday was probably the first day on the (potentially long) path to
Adobe Flash decline: the most popular video site out there – YouTube –
started offering videos in Flash-less mode for browsers which support HTML 5
and h.264 video codec.
This means that today the option is available for Chrome and Safari.
Then at some point they will likely add the Ogg codec and support Firefox, o... (more)
The recent announcement of iPad has ignited yet another wave of emotional
discussions around the role of Flash Player in the evolution of mankind.
People easily take sides and everyone seems to know what’s right and
what’s wrong. Actually the word ‘’people” is too vague in this
context, because vast majority of the population has no idea what Flash
Player is, and they don’t have to kno... (more)
Here at Layer 7 we get asked a lot about our support for REST.
We actually have a lot to offer to secure, monitor and manage REST-style
transactions.
The truth is, although we really like SOAP and XML here at Layer 7, we also
really like REST and alternative data encapsulations like JSON.
We use both REST and JSON all the time in our own development.
Suppose you have a REST-based service t... (more)
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