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I am glad to see that there are better and better articles appearing on wikipedia - especially this description of nominative use - the defense against trademark infringement. This is extremely relevant in a world where companies trademark their product names then tell the world you can’t use that name in statements of compatibility. If there’s simply no other way to express compatibility then according to nominative use, you can use it i… Continue

Runtime Revolution Live 2008 wrapped up earlier this week in Las Vegas, where developers that use Runtime Revolution cross platform development environment gathered. You can get a short recap of the events on my blog for Revolution Live 2008 Day 1 and Revolution Live 2008 Day 2. Sadly… Continue

Barcamp is referred to as an unconference - put on by the tech community for the tech community - where you can suggest any relevant topic, reserve a space, then offer up a topic of discussion. I attended BarCamp Portland (Saturday and Sunday) after hearing about it from Harvey Matthews, president of Software Association of Oregon.

What fascinated me about BarCamp is that its an ongoing, social learning conver… Continue

A new release of the Mac OS and version of Apple xCode, the Apple owned tool for building applications for Mac OS X in C++ or Objective-C, always brings with it a measure of hype into the Mac OS developer community that can occasionally slop over into the Mac OS user base. But I have yet to date see a release of a developer tool, let alone an SDK, rec… Continue