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Do you miss ASP.NET? Try the Acts as ASP.NET Rails Pluging

April 4, 2008 – 3:23 pm

Hilarious code comedy from Rails Jedi
My favorite:
“Viewstate is back. Now new and improved on top of Rails. acts_as_aspdotnet overrides form_tag to put a hidden variable that contains loads of crucial processing data on every postback that will fill your server pipes with more glorious bandwidth.”

By Ed Laczynski | Also posted in .net, rails, ruby | Comments (0)

Another big move by Google. Offline Docs. Word.

March 31, 2008 – 5:39 pm

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/03/bringing-cloud-with-you.html
Google has been rocking lately with updates to Google Apps.  Every week there seems to be more news coming out of Mountain View.  The latest news, hot of the press from Google’s Official Blog, is more evidence that this technology might just turn out to be as disruptive to Microsoft as anything else happening right [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Also posted in google apps, google gears | Comments (0)

More gloom for Microsoft? Brand in decline says researcher

March 28, 2008 – 11:41 pm

I picked this up from Slashdot today.
I am still a huge Microsoft fan, I think that they blazed the trail for personal computing in a way that has helped thousands of developers and millions of users in the early ’90’s through the start of the “Web 2.0″ era.
However, as I mentioned in my post about [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Comments (0)

Prediction: Google will out flank, disrupt, and split Microsoft apart

December 17, 2007 – 1:16 pm

I am seeing things in the marketplace that make me believe that Google will in fact out flank Office and disrupt Microsoft to a degree that few expected just a year ago.
First of all, there is a drum beating in the media for an epic battle between Mister Softie and Google. The article this [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Also posted in .net, google apps | Comments (1)

Is Microsoft doomed? A devotee considers switching to Mac.

June 19, 2007 – 3:15 pm

I am trying to learn Ruby.
Trying to get out of the development rut I’ve been in.
I love .NET. I love C#. I can build powerful apps very quickly in .NET. However, taking these apps and getting my team to maintain them consistently, and building a web-ready infrastructure around them to support both [...]

By Ed Laczynski | Also posted in mac, rails, ruby | Comments (0)

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