The Voice of Rosen

Apple finally announced a long-awaited upgrade to the Mac mini product line.

Eager to show your fancy musician friends that you can record your own hit song without any musical knowledge or talent? Microsoft can show you the way... just as they did more than a dozen years ago. Only this time, according to their video ad, you do it on a MacBook.

Somewhere in between PDAs and smartphones (with tiny screens and tinier keyboards) and full-size laptops are the new breed of portable digital device, alternately referred to as "subnotebooks" or "netbooks". The next big thing is... small.

Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates, together in a commercial for Microsoft... not that there's anything right with that!

An extremely hysterical entry from Ed Johnson's Hacknot blog, on how (not) to conduct professional job interviews for technology positions.

After Y2K, you thought it was safe to go back in the water when it came to date processing in application software... think again.

Agile guru Ryan Cooper humbly suggests that fixing things later is code for "fuggedaboudit".

That's so... 20th century...

A blogger declared almost a year ago the object-relational mapping (ORM) is "the Vietnam of computer science". Debate surrounding this declaration is as contentious as debate about Vietnam. Bottom line: Was he right?

Fierce competitors Steve Jobs and Bill Gates may each rail against the other's companies and products... but deep down, there's love.

Second edition of Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols & Practices to be released next year.