Author: Si Chen

I followed this tutorial on how to do mail merge in Google Apps, and it taught me a lot about Javascript and […]

Windows 8 not only feels clean and refreshing but also illustrates a new user interface paradigm which makes a lot of sense.

Here’s a quote from today’s Wall St. Journal article, “Zynga’s Rocky Shift to Mobile“: Making money from mobile games is particularly tricky. For one, […]

If you’ve worked with Apache OFBiz or opentaps 1.x, you’ve probably had moments like this: Q: What’s the difference between internal name […]

The first proof of concept application is now available.  This new application is based on Apache Geronimo 3, OSGi Blueprint, and openJPA […]

A recent GigaOM post about iPhone’s momentum vs Android was interesting, because it suggests that the Laws of Software may have been […]

My New Year’s Resolution: Make building enterprise software fun again. The Old Way Almost all enterprise applications follow the same architectural pattern: […]

When I first wrote opentaps 2.0 Planning, my goal was to come up with a new architecture that would make enterprise software […]

Take a look at this chart from O’Reilly Radar: You say you want a revolution? It’s called post-PC computing: We are entering a […]

There’s an interesting story from SoftwareAdvice.com about the origin of ACT!, the first contact management and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software.