Monday, October 24, 2005
Some developers from the original Firefox team have gotten together and created a new browser based on Firefox called Flock. The great thing about flock is that for its core features, it ties into existing web applications. Bookmarks are all stored in your del.icio.us account. You can view flickr photos. You can post to your blog and even use Flock as a RSS reader that is much improved over Firefox. All of this with an improved interface also.
Sunday, October 23, 2005
I didn't write near as much about my experience at MAX as I had planned, but I'm sure that what happened there is going to find it's way into what I write here for a long time. It was a super conference and I think there was a real feeling of sadness at times realizing that this would be the last time that we all came together as Macromedia. Next year Adobe will be running the show and no one knows what that will bring at this point.
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
That which makes October the best month of the year begins today as the major league baseball postseason begins today at noon central.
Monday, October 3, 2005
MIT has put together the specifications for a computer that should cost no more than $100 to build. The 12 inch laptop computer has wireless networking, six usb ports and a shoulder-strap that doubles as a power cord. The computer would be built primarily for third world countries looking to introduce computers into the classrooms of their students. Given this, the computer also features a small crank which can be used to provide juice to the computer in areas without handy electrical power.
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Tomorrow morning, I'm catching a plane to Boston to watch Saturday's game against the Yankees. It's going to be incredible. Wakefield vs Johnson. I don't know if I'll even sleep tonight
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Another school year has started and things are humming. I’ve just switched my blog from being based on Movable Type to WordPress and things are probably going to be a little funky here for a week while I learn this new environment and make this what I want it to be.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Here's a blog specifically to help folks with the cfchart part of coldfusion
Thursday, June 23, 2005
You know you want one
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Link
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
Jobs finally announced it yesterday around noon, central time. Apple will be starting to include Intel chips in its systems. I’m pretty excited about this. Apple released the PowerBook G4 a long, long time ago and there is no G5 in sight. It seemed that with IBM’s new chip production facility that the stall may be short-lived. It seems apparent now that there are no major speed-bumps in sight (at least for power-book chips) and I’m sure that IBM is more excited right now by the prospect of delivering chips for the XBOX 2, PlayStation 3 and the new Nintendo game systems.
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
CSS3 promises the ability to have multiple columns (think newspaper layout). Exciting.
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
Looks like XHTML2 is coming soon and it sounds great!! Here is a presentation about it and here is the working draft.
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
I had never found a great Fireworks forum, but there seems to be good discussion here at geekforum.
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
Wikis, getting bigger and bigger, are featured in a Time article.
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
Willowdale Elementary School in Omaha has a podcast called Radio WillowWeb.
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
Nokia and others think that mp3-enabled cell phones will overtake the iPod. I think that, for the time being, they are nuts. As long as you have to buy phones from only your vendor and buying a phone usually happens only when getting a new contract, people are not going to race out and get these phones. While they may sell 12 million phones a year, I would sure be interested to know how many of those are the $500+ models.
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
This is a good article on how to get started listening to podcasts.
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Adobe has announced the future availability of a new piece of software called co-author. It is to GoLive what Contribute is to Dreamweaver. I'm sure this product has been in the design phase for quite a while, but I question the value of introducing it now. Contribute is a well-liked, version 3 program. Why release a version 1 product that will overlap a product that you know you will be acquiring?
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
ZD Net's David Berlind has some ideas.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Take a look at this column (support materials) discussing the iPod shuffle's audio supremacy.
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Webnote
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
The Sith Sense
Friday, May 20, 2005
Wow. This is going to be big. CFAjax is the AJAX implementation for coldfusion. It allows javascript to directly call ColdFusion methods without refreshing the page. The possibilities of not having to submit and request pages blows my mind.
Friday, May 20, 2005
What is Netscape? As far as I can tell, it's been reduced to nothing more than an ISP and it's new browser is just one more branded application. The new Netscape 8 browser that came out yesterday drew some attention early as it was going to be based on Firefox, but has drawn more attention in the last couple of days because it also uses the Internet Explorer engine for other sites.
Friday, May 20, 2005
How do you get columns to stretch the length of the page in CSS? There are many ways I'm sure, but the one I use most often is using background images to give the appearance of columns. There is a new article about this on Macromedia's site and also the article I originally learned the technique from at A List Apart.
Monday, May 16, 2005
The New York Times ran a story yesterday discussing Rich Internet Applications
Monday, May 16, 2005
Massimo's Corner has published a well-documented and thought out javascript form validator.
Monday, May 16, 2005
NewsPipe is a sourceforge project that will take a RSS feed and allow you to process it in your email client of choice.
Monday, May 16, 2005
Take this quiz to find out which operating system your personality most matches.
Monday, May 16, 2005
ThinkMac updated the NewsMac Pro news aggregator to version 1.0.2. This aggregator has a real slick interface and allows for syncing with Palm Pilots (via iSiloX). I tried it out, but didn't see enough to encourage me to switch from NetNewsWire. Perhaps it's in there, but it was frustrating that in order to read news I had to go through each news "channel" individually. I couldn't say "just give me all unread news regardless of channel (subscription)"