November 2008 Entries
A new company called Plastic Logic, born from Cambridge University research, is coming out with a very nice looking E-Paper display early next year. It's much slimmer than the Kindle, wirelessly gets content, and has more screen area than the Kindle. It's actually heavier, but it's still small enough to be a very nice gadget. I would love to have a laptop with an E-Paper screen for coding, email, and document work. Smartphones, PDA's, SideShow devices, and remote controls would all benefit from this technology if it would ever be available cheaply. Within a few years we'll supposedly have color...
I gave a talk today about hardware virtualization with a focus on Virtual PC. I gave a similar talk a month ago or so in Cedar Rapids at the CRINETA meeting. Virtualization just offers so many benefits to developers, and of course testers too. I talked about how it all works (hopefully without boring anyone to death with details!) and why it makes sense. Here’s a quick list of benefits if anyone isn’t sold on it yet: Run legacy operating systems (Windows 95, OS/2, Windows NT) Run other platforms (Linux, Solaris) ...
So two Mondays ago I took a drive to Chicago. I haven’t been there for months and I always like going there (minus the driving!). I was going to a Roadshow event for Microsoft to help promote virtualization. The event had many sponsors (it was free to the public) and a hall of vendor tables. The lab had around 40 computers and two other proctors. We got to wear “Certified Veek” shirts, though no one was 100% sure why. Presumably we were (V)irtualization G(eek)s or something like that. Oh well, we wandered around and helped people. There were about...