Category: Rant

I want a new laptop: Sony FZ, Dell M1530, ASUS V2S, or MacBook Pro

30 November, 2007 (10:59) | Geek Toy Fun, Rant | 13 comments

Being in the market for a new laptop, I thought for sure I was going to go with a Mac Book Pro. I don’t mind paying the Apple tax for a beautiful machine and operating system. However, I don’t have any issues with Windows. Even on my cheap Dell machines, I’ve probably only seen a [...]

Use Adobe Air Only When Flash/Flex Doesn’t Suffice!

29 August, 2007 (09:04) | AIR, Adobe Apollo, Flex, Rant | 8 comments

A little rant here.  I know Adobe AIR is new sexy and everyone’s trying to build apps that run naively on the desktop, but please, if you’re not making use of local filesystem, native windows, drag-and-drop, SQLLite, native menus, or any other of the useful AIR APIs, you should really consider not releasing it as [...]