December 2010
14 posts
Sad to miss our little family reunion, but turns out I was right to let my head rule my heart this time. Lots of snow here and more falling.
Trying to fathom how I ended up on a conference call, on a bench, in the freezing cold, in December.
Perhaps a little too much caffeine for me in our last minute pitch preparation. The cold Scottish air will sort me out. Ahhhhhh. Better.
Google’s V8 javascript engine gets a speed boost taking it to around 100xfaster than IE’s engine of a couple of year ago (still in wide use)
Settling in for the slightly mysterious Chrome event at Google. Live streaming from Mountain View. Perhaps Crome OS and app store news.
Bound for Victoria with @jaffathecake for a Google Chrome event.
The new PDF rendering in #chrome looks super fast. Brought to your browser via the seamless auto update with security fixes. Nice.
Google’s webstore has a design which is incredibly reminiscent of iTunes store. Regular challenges yield similar design solutions I guess.
Chrome OS notebooks will be available globally in mid 2011. Acer, Samsung and more OEMs to come. Pilot program for beta testers sooner.
“Chief Demonstration Officer” A job title at Citrix, not just someone who organises students to go and smash up Whitehall. Apparently
Chrome OS will have seamless automated software updates to keep it secure and dodge that PEBKAC issue. http://goo.gl/UDGUz
Hoping I can look Walt in the eye when he returns from the vet to find that he’s been robbed of the contents of his “gentleman’s coin purse”
Digging Fabric and @a_alfredo’s automated deployment fu. http://docs.fabfile.org
I love my iPhone4…. but wow! Google’s Nexus S with Android Gingerbread looks rather tasty! http://www.google.co.uk/nexus