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YUI 3.0.0: First GA Release of YUI’s Next-Generation Codeline
YUI().use(“node”, function(Y) { Y.one(“#message”).setContent(“Hello, World!”); }); We’re pleased to announce today the general-availability release of YUI 3.0.0. YUI 3’s core infrastructure (YUI, Node and Event) and its utility suite (including Animation, IO, Drag & Drop and more) are all considered production-ready with today’s release. YUI 3 is the first ground-up redesign of YUI since 2005, […]
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Thoughtless signage in lovely Florence
My relatives returned from a trip to wonderful Firenze, and shared some terrible experiences trying to get their rental car back to the rental office in that ancient city’s dense traffic. Which brought to mind my own experience in the matter some years back. I was trying to steer a course through all the one-way […]
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Android Modder Tries To Outmaneuver Google
itwbennett writes “Google recently sent a cease-and-desist letter to Steve Kondik, the creator of Cyanogen, a popular souped-up version of Android, asking him to stop distributing applications such as Gmail with his modified software. ‘We make some of these apps available to users of any Android-powered device via Android Market, and others are pre-installed on […]
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China is Doomed
Over the past 20 years or so, most of China’s leaders have been engineers. I’m embarrassed to say that I was not aware of this until recently. Suddenly, everything makes sense. For years I have marveled at the fact that the Chinese government could be so practical. They didn’t seem bogged down by the superstitions […]
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Another Microsoft Research Operating System: Helios
It seems like Microsoft Research is really busy these days with research operating systems. We had Singularity, a microkernel operating system written in managed code, and late last week we were acquainted with Barrelfish, a “multikernel” system which treats a multicore system as a network of independent cores, using ideas from distributed systems. Now, we […]
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More Proof: Facebook for the Rich, MySpace for the Poor
Oh how the mighty have fallen. The one time king of social networks, MySpace, now has the honor of being the site where the less affluent members of the online population stake their claims by way of bedazzled profiles overrun with auto-playing videos and songs. Meanwhile, the upscale, financially solvent users have moved on – […]
