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 want to go a bit [...]
Archive for January, 2006
Bloglines acting up again
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 much. But, I really do [...]
Loving Emacs
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 peruse and comment on the [...]
When to worry about scale?
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 fair amount of experience working with [...]
AJAX, Thick or Thin client
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 in javascript(Thick Client) you reduce data [...]
No Javascript in innerHTML
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 inserted using the innerHTML calls, [...]
I get hungup on little problems with jsp tags
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 param or nested inside of [...]
Cingular having trouble with voicemail
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 much. Both of us have [...]
Web Applications
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 have to worry [...]
The telcos want change the way the internet works
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 work. The network is designed [...]
There is no war on terror
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 against drug dealers isn’t how things [...]
Busineweek has an article on patents
Businessweek.com has an article on patents discussing the damage that they are currently doing.
Patent Trolls should be removed
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 with a VC that mentioned that [...]