It seems everyone is begining to embrace the “free” product market. In fact it seems to be that this is becoming a standard way of interjecting your product into the market. Adobe has done it with Flex, Microsoft has done it with SQL server, Oracle with their DB, and now, VMWare is doing it with their GMX Virtual Server (Windows and Linux) to be released today. For more info check out these links: ITtoolbox...

If you’ve considered building Flex applications (and you should because the framework, sdk, and compilers are free!!!) you may want to consider Cairngorm. I came across Cairngorm (an architechure for building Flex apps) about a year ago , and sat in on one of their presentations during Macromedia Max 2005. They’ve just released the alpha for version 2.0; I’ll be checking it out soon.

During my Cocoa Training in November we noticed several functions available through XCode which related directly to Tablet PC functionality (don’t ask me what they are … please don’t) and sparked a bunch of conversation regarding a new Tablet PC from Mac on the way. Well, a patent was discovered last year (courtesy engadget) and now their’s another patent just released (courtesy engadget,...

who: The pronoun who, in the English language, is the interrogative and relative pronoun that is used to refer to human beings and some animals perceived as sentient. (Rest assured, I’m the human, NOT the animal.) Who am I? Well, let’s see: I’m a husband, father, brother, God-father, down to earth, relaxed, happy kinda guy who likes clean code, long walks on the beach, takes his laptop with him everywhere...