06.14.06

Caught the AJAX bug yet?

Posted in Computer, Link at 7:47 pm

Here is a good resource of AJAX books and tutorials online.

02.19.06

Ruby

Posted in Computer at 3:20 am

Any Ruby programmers out there? I am really interested in Ruby right now and also the Rails framework. Ruby itself seems really easy and efficient, while Rails seems to complicate things, IMHO. I may just be too new to see the whole advantage, but right now it’s tough to keep the directories straight, and file names and such. I did stumble across this cheat sheet that has really come in handy.

Thoughts?

11.04.05

Keep that momentum going Firefox…

Posted in Computer at 1:10 am

Firefox has reached a 10 percent market share. You can read the story here. Now if we can just get the Brits onboard…

Take that Microsoft!

10.28.05

Web technologies

Posted in Computer at 3:38 am

I am completely enamoured by several web technologies right now…

XML is still on the radar
AJAX is hot lately
Ruby and specifically the Rails framework is also very hot
PHP5 will always be a favorite with me

What are you guys working with? And if you want some book recommendations for the above, let me know.

08.16.05

PHP5!!!

Posted in Computer at 7:49 pm

My hosting provider made PHP5 available on a server and I jumped at the chance. PHP5 seems to be everything that PHP has been lacking up to this point.

However, there are some “cutting edge” pains that I’m going through so please be patient. Most things seem to have transferred ok, but I’m still tracking down some incompatibility issues…wish me luck.

06.29.05

Windows Desktop Widgets

Posted in Computer at 2:40 am

So I’m interested in desktop widgets (is there not a more overused term than “widget”)

I’m looking at Konfabulator and DesktopX and leaning towards DesktopX.

Any experiences with either?

06.28.05

Curious…Mac or PC

Posted in Computer at 2:51 am

Of you out there that own a Macintosh, I’m very curious why you went that route. And of the PC users, the same question.

– Compatibility?
– Number of Applications available?
– So you could tell Microsoft to piss off?
– Look and style?

03.15.05

Supposed new features of IE7 aka Rincon

Posted in Computer at 5:54 pm

Although a beta of IE7 is months away information about enhancements and features are starting to spread.

My favorite comment in this article is “Microsoft is wavering on the extent to which it plans to support CSS2 with IE 7.0”

Get it right Microsoft…do the right thing!

02.15.05

Security and PHP

Posted in Computer at 8:39 pm

I have loved PHP since version 3! And now version 5 is truly the real deal. (I wish my hosting company would install the damn thing though!!) But as with any took you have to know how to use it.

Here comes the PHP Security Consortium, a group dedicated to educating the programmers out there on how to securely use PHP to design your Web apps.

From the Library at PHP Sec, there is a link to a great article demonstrating SQL injection hacks by example. Since PHP and *SQL go hand in hand, I thought I’d include this excellent reference as well.

12.07.04

We’ve been spammed…

Posted in Computer at 8:20 pm

Well, despite my efforts to protect against such a thing, we’ve been spammed. I did some upgrades and hopefully that will resolve the issue. I apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused.

I’ll slowly re-enable comments on some of the entries that were hit.

Thanks!