Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Apple iPhone Developer Announcement WWDC 07

Steve Jobs, yesterday in WwDC 2007 keynote talked about iPhone, they are launching it on 29th June at 6PM, also they talked about third party application on iPhone.. now before I go ahead...

they also announced Safari browser on Windows.. good news, now back to iPhone, iPhone will support third party applications, now good news in this is that you dont need to download any new SDK, learn something new... but you can use your existing knowledge of AJAX and xHTML and CSS meaning Web 2.0 and your application will run on Apple iPhone, to run your application it needs Safari browser which is already present on iPhone, now the question that I have got is, this means that you will need internet connection whenever you want to use third party application, and internet connection on cell phone using GPRS is expensive or does it allows you to download web 2.0 application? that is not clear, ok now thats that.. now one more disappointment is that, its web 2.0 meaning application will not be able to access platform features, meaning this applications will not be able to access iPhone :( but lets wait till launch and see whats in the store... so far it doesnt look good and also not enough information in hand.. so will wait till final launch.

but iPhone looks great.

Friday, June 08, 2007

Celebrating Decade

I am celebrating a decade :P, its been 10 years I am using internet :D yeah 1997 is the year when I got my first ever internet connection from VSNL for 3,000rs for 100 hours :D on dial-up at speed of wooping 36kbps :D and later on 56kbps.

And also I am celebrating decade for a programming :D, yes I am completed 10 years of me into programming and now I am spending very less time in programming more into business and meetings into architecturing.

Remembering good old days… when…
- Your best friend for coding was none other than notepad.
- You did debugging using paper and pen.
- You did dirty debugging by putting write to console line of code to just see that values are computing proper.

Today also dirty debugging works, when debugging tools doesn’t help you out.

- Internet was just a place where you chat, check email and download games.
- You liked telnet kind of internet a lot than browser internet.
- You used internet only for hour so that you don’t run out of hours and telephone bills.
- There was handful of reasons to use internet.
- You spend more time watching TV rather than surfing on internet.

Plus, lots of things are there, I am just too happy to celebrate decade in this industry.