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  • What exactly is an iPhone application?

    Scoble mentions 3 new iPhone apps today from Newsgator, Bloglines, and Google. It's interesting that companies keep saying they are doing "iPhone development", when really these are nothing more than sites skinned to look more natural on the iPhone. The iPhone is the only mobile phone that...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-24-2007

  • Licensing the Office 2007 UI - what is Microsoft's IP strategy?

    Jensen Harris announced that the Office 2007 Ribbon UI can be licensed . For the last year or so, one of the questions I've been asked again and again has been: "Can I use the new Office user interface in my own product?" I have to be honest - I'm a bit baffled at this whole thing. Note, they are not...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-27-2006

  • The tradeoffs of the Energy Policy Act of 2005

    As part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that Congress passed last year, Daylight Savings Time will be extended by four weeks. One of the rationales behind DST is that we leverage the longer daylight hours in the summer months to minimize the need for artificial light. This operates off the assumption...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-30-2006

  • Russian Software Developer Beats Pirate in Boxing Ring

    Apparently not content with legal remedies (after all, Russia is not known for it's anti-piracy efforts), a Russian software developer took matters into his own hands . In February, Smirnov saw the dealer selling CDs with his company’s software at a computer market without a license. Smirnov demanded...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-31-2006

  • Speaking of Exceptions...

    Speaking of exceptions, here are two great error messages passed along by Dave . This one might be the most verbose I've ever seen: ContextSwitchDeadlock was detected Message: The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context 0x15a948 to COM context 0x15a7d8 for 60 seconds. The thread that owns...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-04-2006

  • Outsourcing: Stop Whining

    Well, I was going to say something about this op-ed when I read it two nights ago, but Mike beat me to it . My favorite quote from the article: Stop whining. Stop waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Take charge of your own jobs, your own career and your own future. No one else is going to...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-20-2004
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