Intel and the OLPC- January 14, 2008 I was shocked this last week to discover that when Intel left the One Laptop Per Child project, many people immediately used this as an opportunity to say that OLPC is finished, done for, kaput. Why, just because one of their most recently joined partners was ousted Their other partners include Quanta, Chi Mei, AMD, News Corp, Google, Brightstar, Red Hat, Nortell, Marvell, eBay, SESAstra, Citigroup, Real Networks, Seagate, Adobe, and more.Seriously, it seems like people want this project to...http://basicprogramming.blogspot.com/2008/01/intel-and-olpc.html Web 2.0 Podcast Interview - Run BASIC- January 13, 2008 James Robertson interviewed me yesterday on his weekly podcast Industry Misinterpretations about our new web appserver Run BASIC, where he describes it as a Web 2.0 platform. I don't usually use that term, but I guess if the shoe fits...The interview lasted more than an hour, and it was a great time. We talked a lot about how complicated programming systems are these days, and how badly we need simplicity to make a comeback. :-)Listen to part one of the interview...http://basicprogramming.blogspot.com/2008/01/industry-misinterpretations-podcast-on.html iPhone BASIC- January 12, 2008 Now that we've released Run BASIC, we would like to collect some feedback about the idea of adding some capability for the iPhone (and other mobile phones). There is a Javascript library and some CSS called iUi http:code.google.compiui which provides the metaphor and visual look for iPhone (and iPod Touch) apps. This would make for very easy iPhone development, and it could be a great marketing button for Run BASIC.Apple plans to announce some sort of SDK next month if I'm not mistaken, but a...http://basicprogramming.blogspot.com/2008/01/iphone-basic.html |