Archive for November, 2008

Mobile devices as development machines
Monday, November 17th, 2008

Tim O’Reilly tells the story of how Vic Gundotra, my manager at Google, came to the conclusion that the future of software lies somewhere in the intersection of mobile and cloud. Indeed it does, but I jokingly twittered back that we still need PCs — how else are we going to write our mobile and [...]

User-Agent headers are out of control
Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Here’s an actual User-Agent header from my logs: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; Media Center PC 5.1; Zune 3.0; OfficeLiveConnector.1.2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618) This is absurd. And it doesn’t help. My server does not care if you own a [...]

Clearing up inaccuracies about the Google OpenID IDP launch
Friday, November 7th, 2008

Not exactly the post I want to write after a long week, but there have been several posts following the developer launch of the Google OpenID IDP. Unfortunately, those posts are inaccurate, and it is worth clarifying what is going on so no one else makes the same mistake and repeats the (incorrect) claim that [...]