http://www.mindarch.com/techopinions Random opinions on state of tech Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:53:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Eric Smith - Mind Architecture - I see the future of the internet (or some future version of the internet) as being the ubiquitous glue that holds all technology together. AJAX and Web 2.0 have popularized the idea of using web pages/sites as applications and that trend will continue ... http://www.mindarch.com/techopinions/2007/02/19/15-where-do-you-see-the-direction-of-the-web-going/ Chuck Harris - Astrixs -In short yes, people should be able to make money off of their research and time. As long as software companies fail to produce fully tested applications, there will always be vulnerabilities. Don’t get me wrong, software companies go through quality assurance, but ... http://www.mindarch.com/techopinions/2007/02/15/14-should-someone-be-paid-for-finding-a-security-vulnerability/ John Dowling - iSite Design - To me the name change doesn’t really matter one way or the other, I do see that since they are now a lot more than just computer like in the past, it is probably a good move. I love the iphone, I just don’t like ... http://www.mindarch.com/techopinions/2007/02/12/apples-name-change/ Eric Smith - Mind Architecture - Zend Studio as an IDE for PHP PHPMyAdmin front end for MySQL Firefox - especially the Web Developer Toolbar and Firebug add-ons FileZilla FTP program Notepad++ I like the code completion features of Zend Studio - saves trips to php.net to look up the parameter order for PHP ... http://www.mindarch.com/techopinions/2007/02/12/what-apps-do-you-use/ Chuck Harris - Astrixs - It is an interesting question that actually places a question on ownership. In order for the publishers to establish that the downloading of files was illegal they first had to explain to the courts why it was theft. In the scenario where a person purchases ... http://www.mindarch.com/techopinions/2007/02/12/buying-and-selling-used/ David Johnson - Davidj.org - I believe that the features and functionality attract the user base, and that ultimately it is the user base that is being purchased. Features and functionality don’t sell for 1.65 billion dollars, but 6 million unique hits on a single video affords a great ... http://www.mindarch.com/techopinions/2007/01/16/10-the-youtube-sale-and-popularity/ Microsoft pretty much dominates the desktop computer space. Many people view this as bad. Do you think the computer industry would be at its current level if Microsoft hadn’t unified things with 1 common OS? Is getting everyone buying computers because of Windows or was it going ... http://www.mindarch.com/techopinions/2007/01/09/9-has-microsoft-been-good-for-the-computer-community/ With all the new hype and emphasis on Web2.0 and AJAX, do you think that the web is changing? Or is how we approach sites and what clients want them to do changing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) Dave Johnson - Davidj.org - The browser has become an application platform. Instead of displaying brochure-based web sites, ... http://www.mindarch.com/techopinions/2006/12/19/8-is-web-20-changing-the-web/ Matt Gear - NEC Unified Solutions - Silly Question? Yes, I would. There are many applications out there that are expanding past the File Server/Printer Server/Repository architecture for Linux devices. One Very good example: Convergence technologies- On a Linux based platform, We have been able to design appliance based PBX systems ... http://www.mindarch.com/techopinions/2006/12/13/7-would-you-switch-to-linux/ SDTimes Do you think that having the same scripting engine in Firefox and flash will be beneficial or another instance of getting tied to a particular vendor? Eric Smith - Mind Architecture - I like the idea of integrating Javascript/ECMAScript more tightly with ActionScript from a programming point of view. The ... http://www.mindarch.com/techopinions/2006/12/05/6-same-scripting-engine-in-firefox-and-flash/