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Archive for the 'Computing' Category

Yahoo Pipes

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Cool http://pipes.yahoo.com/ Whoops, it’s down right now and they have called the plumbers. Our Pipes are Clogged! I’ll leave you to explore, but this looks very very cool. I have a feeling some people I know won’t be so happy about this though.

Web Directions North, Day 1. I’m impressed.

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Here’s my summary of day 1. In a nutshell, I’m impressed. Molly, Jeremy, Derek, Andy, Aaron and Joe did an amazing job. I wish I could have attended the other sessions as well. Crimes against Web Standards It started off with Crimes against Web Standards brought to us by Molly. Taking us back in time [...]

Hijax… oh come on, it’s just another buzzword we don’t need

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Ajax, Hijax, Ahah… Oh come on already. Why not call it Ajaj and Ajat and Ajas and while we are at it… Seriously now. IMO, Hijax is just another buzzword we don’t need. It’s called Progressive Enhancement. Let’s just leave it at that.

Web Directions North

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Among many others, I too will be attending Web Directions North starting tomorrow. It’s turned out to have quite the lineup; the organizers have put together what looks to be a great collection of talks. From Accessibility to Ajax, Design to Development, Microformats to Progressive Enhancement… it will be an interesting and educational experience I’m [...]

The iPhone

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Old news… I know. But I had to chime in. First thought. wow. Second thought… wow. Third thought…… I wish I hadn’t caved so early. You had to know it was coming. I know I did. I just didn’t expect it quite yet. I don’t know why, but I was starting to think it was [...]

Web Developer 1.1

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Chris has just announced it, he’s released version 1.1 of the Web Developer Extension. Go get it while it’s still hot!

Optimizing HTTP Performance

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Tenni over on the YUI Blog recently wrote part 1 on a piece about improving web performance by reducing HTTP Requests. A while back, Cal Henderson wrote on ThinkVitamin, how to “serve javascript fast“. However, Tenni is taking a more focussed approach on just the HTTP Requests. Maybe part 2 will consider a more balanced [...]