If you want a flavour of the possibilities and some imagination stimulation, watch Dion Almaer of Google in this video. It's the best part of an hour long and is fairly dry. I'm not trying to put you off - afterall I've just recommended you watch it, but for many people when Dion talks about JSON, DOJO and JQUERY they are not too concerned. ...

If the world hadn't spoken about it before, I could probably sit here quite smug. But, as the world did write about it long before, I won't. Pretty much on schedule, as I posted last week  the offline online applicatons are now starting to arrive. The first set of offline online applications I ...

The more I read on the net and in the blogosphere lately the more I hear we are imminently going to be faced with major service driven organisations, such as Google, Microsoft, etc offering us the ability to use their online products in an offline world. This could be great. Google have for a while had their Gears offering, which I haven't used - being Mac bound without Firefox ...

I really like the idea of Portwise. It's a great product, allowing me to connect to a network and experience a full windows client, whilst not actually interfering with the setup/configuration of my machine. Portwise is great at what it does. However, I am not impressed that to use it successfully on a Mac requires I install Firefox. This goes against the grain of every bit of software development ...

I've been a big and loyal fan on Amazon, ever since I first started buying from the US store, before there was a UK store. I think I was such a big fan that in the early days Amazon recognised that and would send me FREE stuff as a valuable customer - obviously, I spent too much ;-) I've just gone to the site and wa-hay, they've got a ...

So, there's now a sneak peek of Wordpress 2.5 available. I've taken a look at it all looks fairly promising. There's some of the long awaited "stuff" due to land also a significant update to the administration interfaces within the suite. It definately looks promising. For me, my question is, what about my existing themes? Are they going to continue to work without modification? If they are, then I ...

Mike O'Connell has just brought Eluma to my attention. It's a Windows based (possibly productivity related) product, so I can't speak from experience, but if it does half of what it claims it looks as though it could become a really useful piece of software. With Eluma you keep all your Web favorites in a single place - whether it’s Web sites, blogs or news feeds that you read ...

As someone who lives in Google Reader (GR) and who's view of the web always starts out in GR do I need to know how many people are subscribed to my RSS feed? If I do, does that make me "virtually" vain? Over the last few hours I've been challenged to run my RSS feeds via Feedburner and my response continues to be: Why? What added benefit does it ...

Looks like Google might be helping me - and a whole load of other people like me - out in a big way. I've just seen a post to the Official Google Blog (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-calendar-sync.html) Which indicates Google have now launched a product for syncing my Outlook Calendar with Google Calendar. This was my life for a whole year before we started working on Google Calendar Sync, a 2-way synching ...

Following on from part 1, posted over the weekend here is part 2 of this 3 part series on the Issue Log Formal Method I am not advertising here, but one of the benefits of Prince2 as a method for managing projects is the ability to adapt the method to meet the needs of the project. However, I have yet to come across any project where the decision to dispense ...