Dead Ink Vinyl

It’s been six months since I last checked in with you. Let me highlight some of the things that I’ve been thinking about during that time.

1. The database is not the application—get your head out of 1990.
2. Java is dead—that’s right, I said it!
3. ColdFusion is dead and buried—sorry to burst your bubble.
4. Rails will rule—the choice of a new generation.
5. RIA has a bright future—HTML must die.
6. REST wins—big Web Services were a tool manufacturer’s wet dream, and now we’re all waking up.

I will go into each of these in more detail over the coming weeks. Hold the flames until I get to elaborate.

Fraser Speirs offers a good counter-point to Arbited‘s promotion of using online resources for storing information and data (such as email and calendars) online. On this one, I’m with Fraser.

Linksys no longer bothers to print the voltage-amperage settings for its products on the products themselves. The Linksys Web site doesn’t help. The product guides online don’t cover all the versions of each product. For example, I own version 2 and a version 3 of the EZXS88W 8-port switch. The User Guide only states that the 88W takes 3.3V at 3.0A, but one of the two 88W’s I have takes 9V at 800mA.

For people like me who own a lot of Linksys products, this is a huge problem. I have five Linksys products and four different power adapters. So that other people don’t have to suffer the mix-and-match games I’ve endured, I’m sharing the configurations I know:

EZXS55W v.3

7.5V 700mA

EZXS88W v.2

3.3V 3.0A (3000mA, 3A)

EZXS88W v.3

9V 800mA

WRT54G v.3

12V 1000mA (1A, 1.0A)

I’ve taken to labeling all of my power adapters with the products to which they belong as I pull them out of the box (for new products) or determine the proper matching (for existing products).