Monthly Archives: December 2009

2010: Things to come

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Nev

Time to dust off the crystal ball and have a wild stab at what may happen in the coming 12 months. There were some disappointments in 2009: Google Wave certainly didn’t live up to the hype but maybe things will … Continue reading →

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2010: Things to do

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Nev

It’s almost the end of the year. A lot of us will be making the usual New Years resolutions again: drink less, exercise more, eat better. We say this every year, thinking about improving our health and ourselves. It lasts … Continue reading →

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Farewell 2009

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Nev

2009 was the year for a lot of goodbyes. Among them: Keith Floyd, Compuserve, Bobby Robson, Bea Arthur, Geocities, Farrah Fawcett, Jade Goody, Dubai, Ricardo Montalban, Patrick McGoohan, XHTML2, Patrick Swayze and Michael Jackson. I’d be willing to bet that … Continue reading →

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Behind the scenes

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Nev

The PQP profiler from Particletree is a very handy thing to have in your development toolbox. However, it doesn’t deal with the ever-increasing amount of work done via Ajax requests. Or, at least, it didn’t. Back in the days when … Continue reading →

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Googlenet?

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Nev

I’ve been convinced for a while now that Google are up to something. I’m not talking about the real-time results inclusion that launched today but something more fundamental that will have a huge impact next year. A couple of weeks … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 4, 2009 by Nev

It’s not just the end of 2009 but also the end of the ‘noughties’ decade. Thankfully that term never really took off. What to call the impending decade is a similarly tricky question. Yesterday, Australia voted for One-ders1 in a … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 1, 2009 by Nev

It’s somehow already December. Traditionally, I like to do a little end of year review during the final month of the year. Unlike Popular Mechanics who – at the start of October – included the Techcrunch Crunchpad tablet computer in … Continue reading →

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