Entries Tagged as 'feature'
Paying for Services
So, I was reading the latest post from franticindustries where he talks a about paying for currently free online applications. He had posted his list of services he’d continue using even if he had to pay and received a lot of feedback that he’s gone through and analyzed in his post. I think the results [...]
On what people will write desktop apps with in the future
So a little bit ago Gruber posted about how in the near future scripting languages would be used to write desktop apps with performance sensitive pieces written in your C’s and C++’s. He followed it up with another post and Scott posted about it too. I spent a bit of time thinking about this but [...]
Categories: development · feature · perl
PipeJax - pure javascript version, Yahoo Pipes to Ajax Bridge
The goal of this is to have an easy way to load Pipes content onto your site. It’s very configurable, so you can style it to look the way you need it to look and it fails gracefully - it only appears when/if Pipes returns some content. So if pipes is down or the [...]
Categories: feature · javascript · pipes · web2.0
My Deal with CSS query engines
I was perusing Zakas’ blog and came across a post where he wonders aloud at the proliferation of CSS query engines in javascript and why the need for them. His point is that they are innefficient and can easily be replaced using standard getElementById/getElementByTagName or perhaps by XPath queries. All of which is true and [...]
Categories: feature · javascript
Wrongroom? Wrong thinking?
It’s saturday and I’m waiting to head out so I thought I’d dredge up an old topic from my pre-blogging days, oh so long ago. It was a post about WriteRoom where dive into mark puts up a little rant. I found it through daringfireball, who’s opinions I generally agree with and Gruber was [...]
Unbreakable, broken
So Oracle, as far as I can tell, has got it’s hate on for open source companies. It is going for the gusto with Unbreakable Linux and potentially with Unbreakable MySQL. It already fired a shot directly into MySQL’s bow with it’s purchases of innoDB and sleepycat - two key elements of MySQL’s landscape.
I want [...]
Categories: databases · feature · free software
Amazon reviewer rank and online community
So, I am - off and on - obsessed with my amazon reviewer rank. I’m not really sure why that should be, I think it started when I realized there was such a thing because my friend Sean started reviewing some Apress books. As a result, I’ve spent a bunch of time thinking about amazon [...]
