Marcel Neuhausler's World

Artima Developer Forum: "I see a lot of agreement in the software community that poor quality code and other forms of technical debt slow you down. Where I see disagreement is on how to manage technical debt. What is your approach?"

.. Things like: "The only way to go really fast is to write the best code you can possibly write, with the best design you can possibly give it. Any other technique will slow you down.", a previous posting by Bob Martin .. and many other interesting thoughts .. anyway, a must / nice to read thread for software developers ..

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goowy: "Manage your personal communications including advanced email, contacts, calendar, and integrated instant messaging (coming soon) all from one place anytime, anywhere.

Organize your digital content using our virtual file storage (coming soon). Upload your music, pictures, documents and more. Access and share your files from any computer.

Get all of your information from across the web in one place by using our Minis for weather, news, rss, flickr, itunes, audio, video, bookmarks, to dos, stock quotes and more!"

.. pretty impressive set of features .. and nicely made, based on FlashPlayer .. how long does it take until Google buys them? .. would definitely be a nice platform for a Web-based Operating System ..

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"Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers."

.. that is a pretty cool thing .. a platform for innovation .. you can store up to 5 GByte per object .. it even offers Bit-Torrent access .. pay as you go .. offered by Amazon Digital Services ..

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"In 6 minutes, we go from scratch to a simple Photo Sharing App: with photo uploading, display, and a content manager interface. Then we'll show you how easy it is to add photo feeds from Flickr right there on the page."

.. quite interesting demo, interesting approach .. but is it a killer-app? .. don't really know ..

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MoMB, "The Museum of Modern Betas" the perfect place to get an overview of all the new web-based applications. Cool!

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Congrats to Writely: "Congrats to the team who made Writely for getting acquired by Google. They built it in .NET. It used to be uncool to startup a company with Microsoft technologies, but I’ve seen more and more .NET stuff being done in the Valley. Who’s next?"

(Via Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger.)

.. who have thought .. and it proves that .NET doesn't necessarily mean IE-only ;-) ..

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