Web Things, by Mark BakerCelebrating the power of the WebCovers- April 18, 2008 That&8217;s funny, folks are talking about their favourite cover songs, and here I was about to blog about one of my favourite albums of all time - coincidentally a cover album - For the Masses, which is a tribute album to Depeche Mode. Four of my all time favourite covers are on this album; Never Let ...http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2008/04/18/covers/ Twelve years of email- April 11, 2008 I had saved my email, both sent and received, since 1996, kept safe in a series of mbox files which I&8217;ve diligently moved from hard drive to hard drive as I&8217;ve upgraded my PC. Of course, it wasn&8217;t very accessible there, and it certainly wasn&8217;t integrated with the last four years of mail kept ...http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2008/04/11/twelve-years-of-email/ Google AppEngine- April 9, 2008 AppEngine is to Amazon Web Services as HTTP is to SOAP. Needless to say, I&8217;m a fan.http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2008/04/09/google-appengine/ DOA 2008- April 3, 2008 Once again I&8217;m happy to be a part of the program committee for the DOA conference. I&8217;ve found the quality of papers there to always be quite high &8230; yes, even some of the Web services ones often have something to contribute (I can forgive one wrong assumption 8-). The CFP for DOA 2008 has ...http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2008/04/03/doa-2008/ Opera and WebKit- April 1, 2008 Opera&8217;s surely been feeling the heat from WebKit given that it&8217;s basically taking over the world, including mobile. So here&8217;s a thought: why don&8217;t they abandon their own rendering engine, Presto, and adopt WebKit Then instead of being &8220;that other browser&8221;, which developers are loathe to bother testing for, they&8217;d be the best ...http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2008/04/01/opera-and-webkit/ |