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I remember watching the technology preview of Google wave and being hugely impressed by the implied implementation, particularly when it included support for Internet Explorer. Anytime a company can press the edges of the web browser as an application delivery platform it's always impressive
astormThe Atom Feed should be updating again. Pair's version of xsltproc had been spewing namespace related error messages for a few months, messages I missed because I'm using Google Apps for my email and it looks like local messages are still being routed to
astormOver the past few years I've been making heavy use of DOT, the Directed Graph programming language, using GraphViz for output. It's basically a text format for building flowchart like diagrams (i.e. directed graphs). It's a classic computer science thing; "Very Smart, Very
astormThis is the final part of on ongoing series. Reading Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 will certainly help you understand what I'm going on about.
astormThis is Part 3 of on ongoing series. Part 1 and part 2 are still available.
astormThis is Part 2 of on ongoing series. Part 1 may be read here.
astormAJAX, Web 2.0, etc. etc. Five or six years ago programming Javascript user interfaces on the web meant a lot of tedious DOM debugging in IE, Netscape, early Mozilla builds, and (if you were awesome and/or a masochist), Opera.
astormInterfaces and abstract classes are one of those next tier topics that will initially flummox someone whose background has been primarily linear programming.
astormI just released a pile of code called Content Courier. It's the front-end framework I use to serve up content on this site; a generalized programatic framework for serving up content from multiple databases, using database in the loosest of terms. There's more information
astormJust a quick note that I've changed some things around behind the scenes but you, dear reader, should notice nothing (other than an increase in posts if all goes according to plan).
astormI'm teaching myself Cocoa and Objective-C via Aaron Hillegass's Cocoa Programming for Mac (second edition). I'm using my website to talk through the process and review what I've just taught myself. This helps me learn. I will, over the next new months, inevitably tell
astormI've been playing around with the new Programmer Q&A site, Stack Overflow. Overall it's a great site, and built with a vision that most web projects lack in the era of mis-applied agile development. You can checkout my profile page or it's corresponding
astormOne of the neat things you can do with the Rhino Javascript shell is take some piece of text manipulation or validation that's been written for the web and use it in any shell script, or any editor that supports calling out to shell
astormI'm Alan Storm, a human being living in Portland, OR by way of Seattle, WA by way of Portland, OR by way of Rochester, NY. I like making websites, and I talk about that here.
astormI'm playing apache config guy this weekend, and I'd forgotten what a struggle configuring mod_rewrite can be. Here's two things you always want to do when setting up a new ruleset, even (especially) if you think it's just a quick five minutes change that
astormMicrosoft is set to release IE 8, which features an improvement in XHTML/HTML/CSS standards support, but introduces a slew of contradictory compatibility modes and features (version targeting, user toggles for standards and compatibility mode, different treatment of Intranet and Internet site, etc.)
astormThere's a new version of the Firefox Web Browser on deck, and as is the custom Mac UI experts and critics have started in on the various inconsistencies that the Firefox XUL based UI has when compared with an application built using the built
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