The Fat Client is Dead

Posted April 7th, 2008 in Development, Web

I don’t think anyone will argue against the point that a lot of applications that were traditionally desktop-based are now moving on to the web. Google has proved that you can make very rich, very responsive, and very good web applications; GMail, Google Maps, Calendar, Docs & Spreadsheets, Reader, etc. are all applications I use regularly. While some of them may not have all the features of their fat counterparts, the fact they they work anywhere with a ‘net […]

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Backups

March 30th, 2008

It doesn’t matter what I say here, because nobody starts making regular backups until after they lose something important.

It’s like the dirty little secret of computer professionals, everyone agrees that backups are a good idea, but nobody actually does them until it’s too late. The few people who make regular backups rarely, if ever, test them–which means they may be in for a rude awaking when a drive does die. And drives do die–I’ve seen my own ones go bad, […]

New Site Launch

February 13th, 2008

As of tonight, I’ve launched another blog–given that I don’t update this one often enough, having two can only make the problem better, right? The new blog is a photo blog, called ‘GKH Photography’ and is located at gkhphoto.com. The idea is that all my photography will happen there, leaving this site for mostly words about stuff (there may be a photo or two included with a post every now and then, but they will be […]