Comments for According to Dave http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog The personal blog of Dave Samojlenko Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:43:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on TIFF 08 Films - Zack and Miri by dsamojlenko http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2008/09/03/tiff-08-films-zack-and-miri/#comment-336 dsamojlenko Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:11:34 +0000 http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/?p=1035#comment-336 Hey, thanks for TOFilmFest.com - what a great resource Hey, thanks for TOFilmFest.com - what a great resource

]]> Comment on TIFF 08 Films - Zack and Miri by Greg http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2008/09/03/tiff-08-films-zack-and-miri/#comment-335 Greg Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:02:43 +0000 http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/?p=1035#comment-335 hi Dave! -- thanks for the link to our site! -- TOfilmfest.com -- and congrats on getting all your picks -- we spent Labour Day in the exchange line... oh, well... -- great trailer for Zack & Miri, too! -- all the best at the Fest! G. hi Dave! — thanks for the link to our site! — TOfilmfest.com — and congrats on getting all your picks — we spent Labour Day in the exchange line… oh, well… — great trailer for Zack & Miri, too! — all the best at the Fest! G.

]]> Comment on TIFF 08 - My Wants List by Working the list http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/film-list-tiff-08/#comment-334 Working the list Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:26:12 +0000 http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/?page_id=930#comment-334 [...] the full film list out, and the schedule about to be announced, I’m starting to build out my shortlist of films I’d like to catch at TIFF08 over here.  Currently the list is heavy on Special Presentations and light on World Cinema - will have to [...] [...] the full film list out, and the schedule about to be announced, I’m starting to build out my shortlist of films I’d like to catch at TIFF08 over here.  Currently the list is heavy on Special Presentations and light on World Cinema - will have to [...]

]]> Comment on coldfusion 7.0 by lumpy http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2005/02/24/coldfusion-70/#comment-13 lumpy Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:38:00 +0000 http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/?p=778#comment-13 Ya, thinking in terms of an obit is strong, but I think that the writing is on the wall for CF in terms of it's continued existence as part of the MM product family.<br /><br />Without a doubt CF has a place in the world. You and I both know that it seems to be a good answer for Government development purposes (easy to use, powerful features for entry-level developers, very low TCO for large organizations etc. etc.). In fact, I think that the TCO for CF is probably lower than for Open platforms such as PHP and whatever the hell else is coming down the rails. <br /><br />Come to think of it, the TCO debate is a good topic of discussion, n'est ce pas? I'll try to get a post in later today where I'll make my arguement(s). But in a nutshell I'm all about blending Open and Proprietary technologies these days. Ya, thinking in terms of an obit is strong, but I think that the writing is on the wall for CF in terms of it’s continued existence as part of the MM product family.

Without a doubt CF has a place in the world. You and I both know that it seems to be a good answer for Government development purposes (easy to use, powerful features for entry-level developers, very low TCO for large organizations etc. etc.). In fact, I think that the TCO for CF is probably lower than for Open platforms such as PHP and whatever the hell else is coming down the rails.

Come to think of it, the TCO debate is a good topic of discussion, n’est ce pas? I’ll try to get a post in later today where I’ll make my arguement(s). But in a nutshell I’m all about blending Open and Proprietary technologies these days.

]]> Comment on coldfusion 7.0 by dsamojlenko http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2005/02/24/coldfusion-70/#comment-12 dsamojlenko Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:29:00 +0000 http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/?p=778#comment-12 And I agree - I don't see how any release could possilby measure up to the leap forward we took with MX. And I agree - I don’t see how any release could possilby measure up to the leap forward we took with MX.

]]> Comment on coldfusion 7.0 by dsamojlenko http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2005/02/24/coldfusion-70/#comment-11 dsamojlenko Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:26:00 +0000 http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/?p=778#comment-11 I don't think we should be writing the obit just yet.. though I do agree that Macromedia could be doing a better job of promoting the product.<br /><br />CF still has a strong development community, and there are still lots of environments where it just makes sense to use it. It's a great language for going from zero to programmer in a relatively short time, and is pretty powerful as a Rapid Application Development platform.<br /><br />However, I do agree its days are numbered if MM doesn't throw some weight behind it. With powerful, open, languages like <a HREF="http://www.rubyonrails.org" REL="nofollow">Ruby on Rails</a> (which <a HREF="http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/archives/2005/02/24/rails-0100-routing-web-services-components-oracle/" REL="nofollow">just turned 0.10.0</a>) and <a HREF="http://www.php.net" REL="nofollow">PHP</a> getting better every day, proprietary solutions have got to work hard to stay relevant. I don’t think we should be writing the obit just yet.. though I do agree that Macromedia could be doing a better job of promoting the product.

CF still has a strong development community, and there are still lots of environments where it just makes sense to use it. It’s a great language for going from zero to programmer in a relatively short time, and is pretty powerful as a Rapid Application Development platform.

However, I do agree its days are numbered if MM doesn’t throw some weight behind it. With powerful, open, languages like Ruby on Rails (which just turned 0.10.0) and PHP getting better every day, proprietary solutions have got to work hard to stay relevant.

]]> Comment on Ajax and the Rennaissance by dsamojlenko http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2005/02/24/ajax-and-the-rennaissance/#comment-10 dsamojlenko Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:06:00 +0000 http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/?p=779#comment-10 And yes, I fully expect you to laugh and call me a communist for that second paragraph. And yes, I fully expect you to laugh and call me a communist for that second paragraph.

]]> Comment on Ajax and the Rennaissance by dsamojlenko http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2005/02/24/ajax-and-the-rennaissance/#comment-9 dsamojlenko Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:56:00 +0000 http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/?p=779#comment-9 I'll rant some other time about why I think that Macromedia putting all their eggs in the RIA basket is a bad thing for the company, and bad for the web.<br /><br />I'll just leave it at this: I believe that the Web will naturally reject Proprietary solutions in favour of open standards. Ajax is open.<br /><br />Besides, <a HREF="http://www.panic.com/goods/" REL="nofollow">check out what people are doing without Flash</a>... that's right, this is not a flash site. Drag and Drop Shopping cart. Be sure to drag stuff off your cart and marvel at the 'poof' animation. I’ll rant some other time about why I think that Macromedia putting all their eggs in the RIA basket is a bad thing for the company, and bad for the web.

I’ll just leave it at this: I believe that the Web will naturally reject Proprietary solutions in favour of open standards. Ajax is open.

Besides, check out what people are doing without Flash… that’s right, this is not a flash site. Drag and Drop Shopping cart. Be sure to drag stuff off your cart and marvel at the ‘poof’ animation.

]]> Comment on Ajax and the Rennaissance by lumpy http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2005/02/24/ajax-and-the-rennaissance/#comment-8 lumpy Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:23:00 +0000 http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/?p=779#comment-8 Dave - I'll be taking some time to look into this stuff a bit more, hopefully sometime tomorrow. The project we're initiating has some strong "real time" reservation requirements (more about "real time" later...)<br /><br />It strikes me as another interesting way of approaching the RIA (Rich Internet Application) user experience. As I mentioned in my ColdFusion "rant" I've been looking at Flex and Flash as way of accessing (in this case) XML data feeds. Seems very interesting and quite promising. At any rate, I'm looking forward to reading more about the Ajax approach and comparing it to the Flash model. Dave - I’ll be taking some time to look into this stuff a bit more, hopefully sometime tomorrow. The project we’re initiating has some strong “real time” reservation requirements (more about “real time” later…)

It strikes me as another interesting way of approaching the RIA (Rich Internet Application) user experience. As I mentioned in my ColdFusion “rant” I’ve been looking at Flex and Flash as way of accessing (in this case) XML data feeds. Seems very interesting and quite promising. At any rate, I’m looking forward to reading more about the Ajax approach and comparing it to the Flash model.

]]> Comment on It’s a Canadian Thing (or not?) by lumpy http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/2005/02/24/its-a-canadian-thing-or-not/#comment-7 lumpy Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:42:00 +0000 http://dave.samojlenko.com/blog/?p=777#comment-7 I'll take a look at that later today (the link to Mezzoblue actually died in FireFox 1.0 a few seconds ago!). <br /><br />Interesting, though. I was ranting about that bogus warning the other day when I was looking at booking a flight thru aircanada.com. I've also run into that warning all over the microsoft.com site(suprisingly!!)while researching some CRM products for my project. I’ll take a look at that later today (the link to Mezzoblue actually died in FireFox 1.0 a few seconds ago!).

Interesting, though. I was ranting about that bogus warning the other day when I was looking at booking a flight thru aircanada.com. I’ve also run into that warning all over the microsoft.com site(suprisingly!!)while researching some CRM products for my project.

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