Blogcritics Author: dOgBOi

Why Linux is Not on the Desktop

dOgBOi — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:50:36 EDT

Why Linux isn't on the Desktop yet, and why it probably never will be.
Let me start by saying that I love Linux. It is a great server OS. I use it at home to host two Wordpress blogs and a Joomla project I'm working on. There are many, many configuration options, lots of useful and free applications (including Joomla and Wordpress), and several distributions to choose from. So when I saw the site Why Linux is...

Book Review: Rails for PHP Developers by Derek DeVries and Mike Naberezny

dOgBOi — Thu, 3 Jul 2008 19:24:18 EDT

PHP for Rails Developers is a great way for any PHP programmer to get up to speed with Ruby on Rails.
Rails for PHP Developers by Derek DeVries and Mike Naberezny is a manual designed to teach PHP programmers how to use Ruby on Rails, a web application development platform. For those who haven't heard of Rails, Rails is famous as a rapid development tool for creating web applications. Basecamp, Backpack, 43things, and Twitter are examples of...

Book Review: Head First Javascript by Michael Morrison

dOgBOi — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:04:01 EDT

A great book for beginners and even pros who want to learn Javascript.
I've read lots of technical manuals in my time. In fact, I've learned just about every programming language I know from a manual, and I know quite a few. Since I haven't used Javascript in a long time, I thought I'd give Head First Javascript a try. I'm glad I did. I'm not a huge fan of technical books that treat the reader...

Revision3, MediaDefender, and The BitTorrent War

dOgBOi — Sat, 31 May 2008 12:34:52 EDT

Revision3 was attacked by MediaDefender simply because they run a BitTorrent tracker.
Revision3 is a media content provider. They produce such shows as Tekzilla, Diggnation, and Systm. Because they provide video in high definition, which requires a lot of bandwidth, they use BitTorrent as one distribution mechanism for their shows. Over the Memorial Day weekend, the Revision3 site was unavailable as a result of a distributed...

Sun Microsystems and MySQL

dOgBOi — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:32:56 EDT

Sun Microsystems made promises, and now they're breaking them.
Note: Marten Mickos responds to this editorial below.Sun Microsystems' purchase of the MySQL database system worried many open source programmers. MySQL is the back-end for a huge number of online applications, including Facebook and Slashdot. Sun made promises when they acquired MySQL. The two major promises were that they would continue to...

A Twitter Marketing Experiment

dOgBOi — Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:50:52 EDT

A rant against the idea of using Twitter as a marketing tool.
A blog post on Jim Kukral's blog The Daily Flip discusses a marketing experiment he is running on Twitter.com. I found out about this blog post because I follow Jim Kukral on Twitter.com and he posted a link to the post on Twitter. Before I start what is probably going to be a rant, I think I should probably explain Twitter to the...

The Death of Newsprint?

dOgBOi — Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:06:10 EDT

Is newsprint dead, and if so, what's next?
I bought a New York Times today. Sometimes, there's something to be said for having more than five pounds of "dead tree" under one's arm. There was a time when the Sunday New York Times would be pushing ten pounds (or maybe it just appeared that way to my younger arms). No one can deny, however, that papers are getting thinner....