Adobe needs to take a page from David Letterman: "You get fired, you get another gig! You go across the street and you punish them and you make them eat your words!"
Adobe is trying to leverage public opinion - and even government intervention! - by portraying itself as the victim of a monopoly power. They start with the assumption that the iPhone is the only gateway to the mobile web, and of course it's not. The high road would be to make a Flash runtime for Android that kicks so much ass that Apple has to change their stance or be left behind in the market. This duplicitous war of words is a low road, a beggar's stance. A Jay Leno move.
Steam said that my downloaded copy of Portal had a 303 million percent fragmentation rate? ... But then Steam defragged it for me, so it's 303 million percent better now.
If you're looking for a free (zero-dollar) debugger for PHP, I've stumbled onto the combination of Xdebug installed onto the server and MacGDBp on my workstation. My favorite part is that I don't need to have a copy of the source tree on my workstation to do source-level debugging. It's transferred to me on demand by the magic of DBGP.
UPDATE: If you don't mind dropping a little money, I've been happy with the debugger in PHPStorm. You still need Xdebug installed on the PHP server for PHPStorm to interact with it.
I like to read history books, and that includes the history of the computer industry. Steven Levy's stuff is pretty good, even if sometimes he gets a little breathless in the telling. Dealers of Lightning, West of Eden, Soul of a New Machine, stuff like that.
From reading enough of these, and from the tech press as well, I know there's this notion floating around that during the early 80s Apple was fighting the wrong enemy. (Pirates of Silicon Valley also plays this note.) During that era, Apple focused on IBM instead of on Microsoft. But Microsoft and MS-DOS really won their independence from IBM during the Clone Wars. Everyone wanted to clone the IBM PC, and run MS-DOS on it, because IBM had been so successful. If Apple had somehow won market dominance over IBM in the early 80s, they would have also defeated Microsoft by proxy.
That got me thinking though, that Microsoft probably would not have stayed out of the OS market. They were still a successful applications company at the time and, if PC-DOS had failed, they surely would have made another attempt at an OS product. Now it starts to sound like the plot of a alternate history novel, doesn't it? On the back cover: "What if Apple had defeated IBM in 1984? What if Microsoft had partnered with Commodore to sell MS-Windows in 1986?"
Wow I just realized... if someone wrote that book, I would totally read it.
