A Rebuttal Of Mr. Grimes’ Avalon -> Win32 Ties Accusation

I’m sure we’ve all seen Richard’s commentary on the state of .NET as well as Dan Fernandez’s rebuttal. If not, go read those first. Since the subject has already been talked to death from the .NET framework perspective, the only thing that I wanted to address is the assertion that Richard makes in his follow up comment […]

Mozilla/FireFox Not Written By Magical Software Elves After All

Now, I loooove Mozilla/FireFox and am so happy that there’s such a great alternative to IE (especially since it’s available on other platforms) so this isn’t a knock on the technology. It’s targeted at the people who like to pretend that the Mozilla/FireFox codebase is somehow blessed by the software gods to be completely free of flaws/vulnerabilities. The realists in this industry […]

Adobe Open Sources Adam and Eve

Adobe has open sourced a couple libraries they’re working on called Adam and Eve. From my brief skim through the overview, both libraries essentially sound like they aim to provide a cross platform architecture that is somewhat equivalent to what Avalon is going to deliver for Windows. Adam, for example, sounds somewhat like the DependencyObject + DependencyProperty + Expression features of […]