Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

TODO: Notes to Myself

analysis
Nov 7, 20071 min

Update the rest of my Windows computers to the released version of Windows Live. (The upgrade went fine on this computer; I'm blogging with the released version of Windows Live Writer.) Look at the Infragistics Aikido CTP. This is a new Web User Interface Framework built using the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Framework and new controls, that makes the Web look a lot like the desktop, if the screen shots are to be bel

  1. Update the rest of my Windows computers to the released version of Windows Live. (The upgrade went fine on this computer; I’m blogging with the released version of Windows Live Writer.)
  2. Look at the Infragistics Aikido CTP. This is a new Web User Interface Framework built using the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Framework and new controls, that makes the Web look a lot like the desktop, if the screen shots are to be believed.
  3. Compare the OpenSocial API with the Facebook API.
  4. Figure out whether there’s a business model in OpenSocial and/or Facebook applications that makes sense for me or any of my clients.
  5. Try out the TI ez430-rf wireless embedded device SDK.
  6. Monday, November 12th: Look at the Android SDK release at https://www.openhandsetalliance.com/developers.html. How hard is it going to be to develop for the “Google Phone”?
  7. Early December: Build or buy a new desktop system for Visual Studio 2008 development.

Any suggestions from the peanut gallery?

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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