Microsoft is gone.
My girlfriend's dog explains why SaaS is the way to go
In a rapid-changing, technologically speaking, world every day, even hour, a new software product comes to life. Chances are that this product is web based.
That said, I see 2010 as the final year for a potential revolution from desktop-to-web apps.
The numbers are here, and the technology to do it too; we already saw the rise of javascript and css, squeezed to the extreme to craft nifty and useful web applications.
We are starting to see frameworks like Cappuccino along with Atlas, and Titanium.
There will be almost no difference for the end user in terms of usability.
But for us developers? Well, there are advantage is porting your legacy app to web and let them take a breath of fresh air; SaaS, software as a service, it's a consolidated way of doing business. Oh, and nobody will be able to pirate your serial numbers, because they don't need one.
MacRuby Nightlies
As you may have noticed I got a Snow Leopard server, therefore some days ago I built a Sinatra application to manage MacRuby nightly builds.
You can reach the service here: macruby.icoretech.org.
The source is on github here.
4 hours of downtime
I apologize for the downtime icoretech.org has experienced, my ISP suddently knocked out icoretech's public ip address from their router for no know reason.
Meanwhile I switched the site to another ip address, DNS servers are catching up with this change.
Thanks for the patience, remember that you can follow me on Twitter.
X-Chat Aqua continuing development
My all-time favourite OSX IRC client, X-Chat Aqua haven't seen updates in quite some time, leaving happy users in the dust; it was working but also was showing some aging.
Recently this project took a good step, thanks to Steven Noonan we can enjoy this client again, since he overtook the development.
Please visit his page to know more and download latest stable.