Author: dsellers

Annual WebObjects Conference to be held Aug. 27-29

Annual WebObjects Conference to be held Aug. 27-29

Posted by | Apr 29, 2010 | , |

The WebObjects Community Association and BoxOffice Tickets have announced 2010’s World-wide WebObjects Developer’s Conference (http://www.wowodc.com), the annual conference dedicated to WebObjects, Apple’s enterprise-class web application development framework.

This three-day event will be held Aug. 27-29 in Montreal at the Hotel Gouverneur Place Dupuis. Sessions and Hands-On Labs will be led by WebObjects experts from around the world.

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Adobe CEO offers rebuttal to Steve Jobs’ Flash comments

Adobe CEO offers rebuttal to Steve Jobs’ Flash comments

Posted by | Apr 29, 2010 | , |

In an interview with the “Wall Street Journal,” Adobev CEO Shantau Narayen offered a rebuttal to Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ thoughts on Flash (http://www.macnews.com/2010/04/29/what-steve-jobs-really-thinks-about-flash). You can read the entire article at http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/29/live-blogging-the-journals-interview-with-adobe-ceo/, but here are some highlights.

Narayen says:

° Adobe believes in open content and support for multiple operating systems, while Apple/Jobs is apparently concerned about technology that works across multiple platforms.

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A call to action on those Mac OS-less Apple Design Awards…

Posted by | Apr 29, 2010 | , |

Okay, I’m still hacked off that Apple is only allowing iPhone and iPad apps in the 2010 Apple Design Awards (http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ada/). Various stories have already been written about this (links at the bottom). Now it’s time for a call to action.

The ADAs are designed to recognize apps that demonstrate technical excellence, innovation, technology adoption and more. So why has Apple decided to eliminate Mac products from the annual awards? If the company wants to spotlight the iPhone OS (and, for better or worse, it does) then why not have iPhone OS and Mac OS categories?

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