Domain names are too cheap
I am not sure I’ve ever used the term “cyber” for anything, ever, but that’s the name given to those who squat on domain names. Here’s my story. ..
Birthday suggestion
My birthday is in December, just sayin’.
Network, network, network, network or network?
I love how Vista offers me so many choices in getting on the interwebs. I can: ..
Google as censor? Of course.
Daniel Indiviglio semi-condemns Google for its compliance with Chinese censorship laws. The “condemnation” is that they put profits before ethics. But that’s way too simplistic and strikes me as a bit insincere — as if we are shocked that Google is trying to make money. ..
iPhone activation servers overwhelmed?
I am upgrading my iPhone 3G to the 3.0 software but am getting this: ..
Use case: SSL and email
Interesting article in the NYT about using SSL for email. It’s an option for Gmail which I turned on some time ago. ..
Imagine CSS evolved as a programming language
I’ve gotten reasonably good with CSS, but I often find myself feeling that certain concepts are conflated or a bit ad hoc. ..
“Built-in” jQuery (and how IE can get some dev cred)
I’ve mentioned in the past that jQuery is an API as much as it is a set of functions. As syntaxes go, it’s very nice — consistent, logical, readable. ..
What is a “programmer”?
Phil Haack has a nice exploration of what it means to “program”. As long as I’ve been doing this — since the early 90’s — there has always been the promise that “programming” will go away. This usually takes the form of visual tools that offer the ability to drag-and-drop the logical chunks of your programs together. ..
64-bitness: what it is and what it ain’t
Very interesting post from Rico Mariani on the why’s and why-not’s of doing 64-bit applications, specifically Visual Studio. It’s important to understand that Visual Studio is about manipulating code, not the data that your code will ultimately handle. ..