Daniel tonight told me that he hadn’t yet seen a good implementation of an ajax application, that they’re always too slow and the delay bugs him. I really don’t know what he’s talking about so maybe I should have clarified, although I think it’s possible that he’s used ajax on sites that aren’t so [...]
Something tonight pointed me to Guy Kawasaki’s reasonably new blog titled “Let the Good Times Roll”, I think it was Om Malik.
Om mentioned how people have wondered why Guy hasn’t started a blog before, and I wonder the same ’cause his blog is excellent reading. Who is he? Well, just an ex-Stanford and UCLA [...]
I’ve just received an email from Alex Tew of milliondollarhomepage fame about his site. (yeah, I bought some pixels back in September). Looks like the DDoS story is true, here’s what Alex had to say about it:
I’m pleased to report that The Million Dollar Homepage is back online after
almost 6 days of downtime [...]
I really need to get on the Ruby (and more specifically, Rails) bandwagons. I mean, with quotes like these:
It takes about half or less code to put my stuff together in RoR than it did in PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, etc.
I use to worry about giving my client an estimate and then running over the [...]
Over some tasty lasagne with some friends last week, the conversation somehow prompted me to bring up Telstra’s new corporate blogs by a few of their employees as part of their attempts at friendly openness on nowwearetalking.com.au.
My enthusiasm was dampened when the response was something like “what, so a bunch of employees [...]
Google has released a web-based RSS reader and aggregator that is pretty nice. You can read all posts from all the feeds you subscribe to in a chronological order, or you can just read from a specific feed. It has lots of AJAX and a pretty smooth interface with shortcut keys that really [...]
I use VBScript all the time unfortunately. It’s pretty handy, and it’s easy for beginners to get into. But it’s getting old and is really slow for doing web stuff, and really isn’t as flexible as C-style languages (like JScript and the newer C# and stuff). I can forgive it things like [...]