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Once again, something that isn’t new but is really valuable.

Grady Booch on Architecture is worth listening to for some architecture wisdom.

Not only is Google convinced it can build browsers better than other people, it now seems to think that browsers shouldn’t even visit websites at all.

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The internet, 2003

Wasn’t the internet busy in 2003. Taken from New Scientist. Old, I know. But if you look carefully you can see where I was ssh’ing to a server in Germany… just near the blue line.

Coders are rubbish at testing. QS, UAT, and Testers all just add entropy.

Very good article over at Google Testing blog: http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2009/09/plague-of-entropy.html

Recently featured on the AWS Blog, Twilio provides an API to phone calls. When someone calls in, it fires a web service on your server. You can then respond with a message – e.g. “Thanks for calling” – which is spoken back to the caller.

I particularly like this kind of cloud app because it is a bridge to a domain to which web developers tends not to have access at the moment.

Now I just need to contrive a project to use Twilio.

Doing research for my what’s-new-in-GWT article for Linux Magazine (http://www.linux-magazine.com/).

This isn’t new, but worth knowing about. A GWT app written for the iPhone when it first came out.

http://gwt.google.com/samples/GwtFeedReader/GwtFeedReader.html

Back from a long summer holiday and lots to do. Having just put singup.org live we seem to have an endless stack of new work as well. (Ok, I didn’t put singup.org live – I was on Holiday.)

On top of planning a new series of articles for Linux Magazine on High performance and cloud computing, I’ll be busy bringing by previous GWT article up to date with the latest version.

Waiting excitedly for Google Wave on Sept 30th.