2005
Growing Feet on Valuable Equipment: Bad People Are Out There
I was coming back from a long meeting. The day was almost over. I didn’t expect to find anybody back at the office, and I was right: the last person locked the doors and left about 10 minutes prior to…
The Big Idea
Technology and programming are always secondary. What’s primary is The Big Idea. Implementational challenges are only unsurmountable when the implementor does not get the idea.
Motorola HS850: Now Machine Washable (and Dryable)
The weekend was drawing to a close. My son was carrying a shoe around the house with such determination and intensity that I couldn’t help but follow him around and wonder if there really was a mystic purpose behind his…
What a Nice Birthday Present!
I knew it! You guys were waiting for my birthday!
Semantics of Comments
Hey, what happened to June? You tell me.
Beware of the Ubiquitous Baton
Last night, somewhere in North London, a hollow object was launched from the secret base of the Web Forms 2.0 for Internet Explorer project. In a perfect parabola, the object crossed the ocean, entered the airspace of the United States,…
TILT: How to Stop Feeling Bad About Using Tables for Layout and Start Enjoying Your Markup
You must be really living out in the sticks if you haven’t heard by now that using HTML tables for layout is bad. Markup is for content, CSS is for presentation, we learned.
Graphics and Structural Markup: Keeping “pretties” out of content
Pet peeve time! Let's talk graphics. You know, the catchy visual dujibobs that have been part of the Internet since the Gopher went south. As far as I know, there are only two types of graphics on the Web: content…
Party Like it’s 1997: The Curse of the Back Button
Haven’t you heard? DHTML is cool again. Now, before y’all run out scriptin’ your own little cans of Asynchronous JavaScript + XML , let’s pause for a second and consider these observations:
Social Content Management
So, you’ve revolutionized the way people access information. Again. Just after the novelty of a search engine wore off, the ingeniously simple magic of content aggregation is taking the world by storm. Now, you don’t look for the information —…
Feelin’ all AJAXy: How Prince of Salamis Became the Moniker for Stuff Done Before
Developers of the MSDN Library site, I feel your pain. You’ve perfected technology years ago (and I am not talking dog or Internet years!), quietly enjoying its success, only to have all of its coolness taken away by Google. Then,…
Progressive Enhancement: Couldn’t have said it better myself
Jeremy Keith has a very nice and complete summary of pitfalls of using augmented client-server interaction on a page (the term Ajax seems to be catching on).
Complete Credentials Screening
Here’s the latest iteration of the Credentials Screening module (for more information see this and this posts). It further improves the way credentials screening operates, introducing things like Windows authentication cookie reminder (because sometimes Explorer “forgets” that it had already…
Of Men with the Brain on Both Sides and a Utopian Cult
Has it really been that long since my last post?