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  • Native Web Applications (NWA) vs Rich Internet Applications (RIA)

    This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.A rewrite of the Rich Internet Application (RIA) article (snapshot) is my latest contribution to Wikipedia following last year’s full rewrite of the Cloud Computing article (which is now

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  • HOWTO: Reverse engineer the iPhone protocols

    This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.A few months back (‘Apple iPhone 2.0: The real story behind MobileMe Push Mail and Jabber/XMPP Chat‘) I analysed how the iPhone interacted with the new MobileMe service with

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  • Cloud Computing: Bill of Rights (aka Ten Commandments)

    This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I am pleased to share with you (at nearly 4am) the results of consolidating efforts by James Urquhart on his blog and Rich Wellner and I offline, by way

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  • Cloud User Shell (cush) multi-call executable prototype released

    This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.After much discussion of what goes on below the water line (in the provider/enabler space), hopefully this prototype release will refocus energy and get the creative juices flowing above

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  • Cloud standards: not so fast…

    This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.The rate of innovation amongst cloud computing providers is mind boggling – developments are building on each other (for example look at the ecosystem which has sprung up overnight

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  • Writing Valid XHTML 1.1

    This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.There’s a lot of good reasons to write valid XHTML (even if the vast majority of sites don’t bother): Your site will render better, faster and more consistently across

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  • Apple iPhone 2.0: The real story behind MobileMe Push Mail and Jabber/XMPP Chat

    This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.So those of you who anticipated a Jabber/XMPP chat client on the iPhone (and iPod Touch) after TUAW rumoured that ‘a new XMPP framework has been spotten(sic) in the

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  • Proof Gmail IMAP (Gimap) supports IMAP IDLE

    This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.So for those of you with capable mail clients (like OS X Mail.app), here’s proof that IMAP IDLE works for delivering push mail: $ openssl s_client -connect imap.gmail.com:993 -crlf

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  • OpenDocument (ODF) Acid Test Proof of Concept

    This content is 18 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Morning all, I’ve just put the finishing touches on the firstproof-of-concept Acid Test for OpenDocument Format (ODF) which I hopewill become a useful tool for encouraging and testing interoperability.The

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