February 6, 2006 – 3:43 pm
I just wanted to say good luck to the crew at Krugle.com during their product launch today at the DEMO Conference in Arizona and the Evans Data Developer Conference in San Francisco! (If you have seen me working around the clock for the past week, carefully guarding my laptop screen from view, Krugle.com is the [...]
January 9, 2006 – 11:14 pm
A little something for the PHP developers out there — a PHP Easter Egg! Append the following to the URL of most any PHP page and see a funny little picture. ?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 Tee hee.
December 31, 2005 – 6:59 pm
It seems like every blogger at one time or another creates a top-ten list of their favorite applications or web sites. I, on the other hand, refuse to get sucked into the whole top-ten post fad. After all, ten of anything is almost too much to consider. Respect my time, filter the list and give [...]
December 30, 2005 – 3:07 pm
Since we are on Microsoft news today, Microsoft has announced that they will end support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31st, 2005, and additionally, as of January 31st, 2006, will no longer make Internet Explorer for the Mac available for download at Mactopia. A thorn in the side of web designers and programmers [...]
December 30, 2005 – 11:04 am
It is clear to me that developers at Microsoft are way over their heads when it comes to developing and maintaining secure operating systems and web servers. Here is news of yet another extremely serious vulnerability that exists on fully patched Windows XP and Windows 2003 Web Server systems. 12.28.05 – Exploit Released for Unpatched [...]
December 23, 2005 – 12:15 am
As posted by David Heinemeier Hansson on the Ruby on Rails blog, there is actually a manual for TextMate, the missing text editor for OS X. (Admittedly, I purchased TextMate when I started learning Ruby on Rails purely on the basis that all of the Rails legends seem to be using it. I’m glad to [...]
December 18, 2005 – 12:51 pm
If you are an existing Ruby on Rails developer waiting for an integrated development environment (IDE) to emerge or have held off on learning Rails until GUI tools were available, your wait is finally over — RadRails is here! An IDE for the Rails framework, the goal of RadRails is to provide Rails developers with [...]
December 12, 2005 – 6:16 pm
Once again, the entire Server4You.com network is knocked offline.
December 11, 2005 – 10:31 pm
I realize that a blog post about Writely.com document sharing at this point is not exactly breaking news but Writely is such a great online tool that I thought it deserved a post. If you haven’t tried Writely yet, you should. In a nutshell, “Writely is a web word processor that provides simple and secure [...]
December 6, 2005 – 11:53 pm
Tonight I was happy to have the opportunity to meet Jeffrey Veen, Director of Product Design at Adaptive Path, and hear him speak on the subject of Ajax and Web 2.0 interface design at the very last San Francisco “Macromedia” (soon to become Adobe!) Users Forum meeting. The group videoed Jeff’s presentation; I will post [...]
