Posted by admin on June 20th, 2006 — Posted in Other
I finally swapped my old and trusty (but after two years of abuse now flaky) Nokia in for the new Sony Ericsson W810i.
Wow, I’m in love. It’s a great phone and contact/calendar manager (better Outlook resync of contacts and calendar than Nokia, especially with multi-day events), MP3 player and 2.0 mega pixel camera. Job well done Sony Ericsson! The only negative so far is the short battery life while playing the MP3s. But that’s the price you pay for having all in one…
Nice little extras: comes ready to go with the USB cable (with Nokia you usually have to spend another CHF 60), comes with great stereo earphones, and a 512M memory stick!
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Posted by admin on June 19th, 2006 — Posted in Other
It’s funny, I often run into people who, once I tell them I am a software architect and developer, ask me if it’s all about creating web sites.
I usually tell them that developing software is a lot more than that, that for instance one could create a software package integrating an internal accounting database with an ordering system, or things of that nature.
As it turns out, as more and more software migrates to the web (internet AND intranet), it’s entirely true that much of the software that we create can and will run as web client/server systems. It can be much cheaper since no client licensing is usually required other than a simple browser, but of course the result may not be as integrated as a traditional solution, but even that is changing.
So the answer to the question is: “yes, a lot of the software today can be boiled down to web sites, but it depends…”
Cheers and happy summer!
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