Microsoft Surface - surface of the future?

When was the last time you watched an anime and saw generals and commanders pin-pointing “holographic” images and interacting with them their hands and gestures, and you wished you could have something like that?
While Microsoft Surface doesn’t produce holographic images, it comes close to letting you interact with your high-tech gizmos through touching the surface [...]

Google Gears, Google Earth, Googlings (not earthlings)?

Google recently announced a tool/library/module/bundle that allows web application to run “offline” during the Google Sydney Developer Day which I shamefully miss (even my company couldn’t get me in through the back door despite the good and strong relationship my company has with google).
As suspected the first time I heard about it, local cache [...]

Technology agnostic vs Client agnostic

This question recently hit me like a .50 calibre bullet, and it really hurts when I try to figure out how to strike a balance between the two.
Being in the IT industry (and especially consulting), I have been able to be technologically agnostic. I am always ready to adapt to changes in the technology I [...]

Enterprise 2.0 suite

I have been working internally on a project for my company to promote the application of Web 2.0 behind the corporate firewall, and I must say this has been the greatest time of my life in the IT industry for having the opportunity to directly be engaged in the innovation and creation process of the [...]

A change in mind about presentation *Part 2*

With all said in Part 1 below, I decided to give Presentation another fair go (as most Aussies would say), and I have to say I am have been pretty excited about it. To my personal dismay, it’s actually highly addictive. The stylesheets used totally changed the appearance of my blog presentation engine, and it [...]

A change in mind about presentation *Part 1*

I have finally written a blog engine, fully integrated with comments and tag cloud to my liking.As usual, the backend stuff is all written, leaving the front end part to be fixed (mainly views in the MVC model).
Here comes the next nightmare: Presentation.
I never had any good experience when I tried to mock-up presentation htmls. [...]