Alex Barnett blog

The ''platform-as-a-service'', or PaaS meme is getting more air play the last 24 hours as news of Google App Engine makes its way through the tech media and blogs. ReadWriteWeb has a good write up and Phil Wainewright's summation by declaring ''Let the PaaS wars begin'' I think fairly captures the mood and reaction to the news. Exciting times ...

In late 2007, fifty Computer Science university students applied for 2008 internships at Bungee Labs. We flew nine of the most promising applicants from around the US to join Bungee Labs for our first “Intern DevFest”. Over a 24 hour period the students had to extend WideLens - the Bungee Connect calendaring reference application - to develop new ...

Man, I really WANT this

Phil Wainewright brought up the concept of the serviced client to encompass SaaS applications that reach beyond the browser and go to the desktop. The key ingredient in a SaaS application is...

Things sure seem to be heating up lately in calendar land.  Alex Barnett writes...

Seeing Google’s recent release of Google Calendar Sync, Alex Barnett has created a short screencast of how this is available as a browser-based utility through the WideLens reference application on....

Google has just released a very cool utility (.exe download for Windows) providing users with the ability to synchronize their Google Calendar with Outlook. Some nice features in their 0.9.3.0 release: schedule the sync frequency: every x minutes define directional flow: 2-way, and 1-way (either way) A bit of a buzz going on about ...

It turns out traffic jams ''just happen'': I wonder if the above patterns would still emerge if the cars in the experiment above had ''Active Cruise Control'':

As much as I'd love to make it to MIX08 this week, time will not allow me...But if I were, then I'd be going to the following three sessions related to the Project Formerly Known as Astoria: Wed, March 5th - RESTful Data Services with the ADO.NET Data Services Framework Fri, March 7th - Accessing Windows Live Services via ...

  I think I might have failed the Turing test.