http://www.kivspot.com software development, management, operating systems, development methodologies, games, travel Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:37:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have been reading OS Weekly for a while, but today I read an article so ridiculous there they might as well rename it to OS X Weekly. The author (Brandon Watts) makes the claim that Leopard is better than Vista because it has no activation. It seems that he ... http://www.kivspot.com/os-x-weekly This week I finally got my hands onto Nokia N810. It is really proven to be the device that will replace my laptop for non-business travel. One of the important tests for the N810 was how suitable is it to play poker on. I am currently mostly playing on PokerRoom, so ... http://www.kivspot.com/playing-poker-on-nokia-n810 Well, its blog action day so today's post is about the environment. I was really happy to join this blog action day, since it is a topic I feel strong about. The problem I am one of the people who believe that the biggest challenge that we face with ... http://www.kivspot.com/blog-action-day-environment Another week of frustrating product design meetings left me thinking what can one do when faced with the equivalent of hit and run management applied to designing software. Generally a hit and run product designer will leave the design process to someone else, or a group of people, but will ... http://www.kivspot.com/hit-and-run-software-product-design In my last post I mentioned how the raising popularity of virtual machines was working good for the popularity of Macs. The more I think about it though, the more it works the other way around also. I have been recently checking out if some pieces of software I need ... http://www.kivspot.com/mac-os-x-virtualization-a-double-edged-sword Another release out of the door, and some time to put my thoughts in writing. Did Microsoft lose the API war? The title of this post is of course referring to the famous "HowMicrosoft Lost the API War" by Joel. I kept going back to that article when we were porting our ... http://www.kivspot.com/how-microsoft-won-the-api-war Found these on the internet: Steve Jobs - normal Steve Jobs - on drugs P.S. Seriously, I was about to write about my frustration why Jobs thinks that Safari will wipe out 3 (FireFox, Mozilla, Opera) other browsers, but leave IE's share intact. I just could not find words to describe it. http://www.kivspot.com/steve-jobs-on-drugs The keynote presentation of Steve Jobs on WWDC 2007 had a pretty big reaction in various media. As usual, a lot of people were pissed of by Apple's advertising. Just a few hours after the keynote was public Joel wrote: Apple is and always has been severely dishonest in all their ... http://www.kivspot.com/apple-reinvents-windows Lost almost half a day evaluating the best way to integrate our licensing with our corporate CRM. Why am I writing this? To hopefully save someone else's half day. After a glimpse at the SDK I figured out I wanted to use the CRM web services. They were simple, and had ... http://www.kivspot.com/microsoft-crm-web-services I've been doing a lot of OS re-installs lately, both at home and office. And I soon found out I hate installing XP, Vista, Red Hat, but I simply love installing Ubuntu. Why is that? One simple reason - the live CD. Once you boot the live CD you have ... http://www.kivspot.com/the-coolest-way-to-install-an-os