Archive for January, 2006
Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Memeorandum is another one of those websites that I first put in the Web2.0 Hot Air Bucket. That was until I tried it out and got hooked on it. It gives you a nice overview of what's going on in the world and a whole lot of sources if you ...
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Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Seems to be some issue with their service. Feeds are reporting new stories, but then only showing feeds titles when you click. They also won't show as read after clicking. Not exactly working properly.
I love the service, it really is great, and it's free so I can't complain too ...
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Sunday, January 29th, 2006
I've been getting several emails lately from the ACM about nominations for the best classical computer books. They're holding a vote to find the best of out of print computer books. There was an initial nomination process and now they're into the voting. There is even a wiki setup to ...
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Saturday, January 28th, 2006
I've been working with a startup since September and it's been a great learning experience in how to start a company from nothing. I was actually the first full time employee of YouService, and was brought in to beef up their server side experience. I came in with a ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2006
There's an interesting blog post discussing the pros and cons of rendering a page on the server or client side. The main point was that by using a technology such as JSON to only transfer the data necessary for the page to the client and keeping all display logic ...
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Took a little debugging to figure this out. I was working with an AJAX application and was pulling some content down from the server using xmlhttpRequest, but couldn't figure out why the little bit of javascript in the returned html wasn't working.
Turns out that HTML is processed properly when ...
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
I spent a good portion of the weekend with my head wrapped around a silly programming problem. I was trying to find the most elegant way to work with nested tags in a jsp. I wanted a tag that could either be standalone with an object passed in as a ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Both my wife and I picked up Cingular Razr phones several months ago and for the most part have been very happy with them. The phone itself is wonderfully designed, it's rugged, fits in your pocket, and is just easy to use. However, the little details can often matter so ...
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Saturday, January 21st, 2006
I'm starting to see a change in the feelings of the people around me in acceptance of using online applications. I'm hearing the same things over and over again.
Why do I have to install this again
I just need that file that's on the other computer
I really don't want to ...
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Friday, January 6th, 2006
There have been several posts lately talking about how telcos want to change the way the internet works. Having providers pay for tiered access systems. If you pay the extortion fee, you're traffic gets a higher priority than the rest. This breaks the way that the internet is designed to ...
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Thursday, January 5th, 2006
Just as there really isn't a war on drugs, there isn't really a war on terror. Until communities can form militias and open fire on the enemy combatants on our street corners selling heroin we're not really at war. Of course everyone understands that waging war in the streets ...
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
Businessweek.com has an article on patents discussing the damage that they are currently doing.
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
There was an article awhile back by Paul Graham that talked about there not being a viable market for business ideas, that the real power in a business was the execution and not the idea itself. This was also mirrored in a podcast on Podtech.net where Furrier was talking ...
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