I really love using Google for search, for news, and for my default home page. I think they’ve done an awesome job of really meeting users needs when many others can’t or won’t. I also expect to see them rapidly grow and expand into new lots of areas. As a technologist, I’m really looking forward …
Why Exactly Do We Still Need a New VB6?
DevSource has another article Will VB 9 Win Over the VB 6 Faithful? where the .NET advocates sing the praises of VB9 and the VB6 faithful bemoan how VB9 will be even worse for them than VB7 and VB8. Problem is, this entire issue has been clouded with emotion, like so many other issues as of …
Assertions in VB.NET?
Blake Watson talks about RemObject’s Chrome, a Pascal that’s not Delphi, on DevSource. There he talks about “class contracts“, a concept I’ve liked since I first read Bertrand Meyer‘s Object-Oriented Software Contruction, 1st edition back in the late 80’s back, and a feature I’d love to see in VB.NET. Whaddayasay Mr. Vick?
AJAX: It Shouldn’t Just Be All About the Developer!
After seeing Eric Pascarello’s thread at ASP.NET forums entitled “AJAX – Is it Hype? Is it for you?” I decided to post a thread at ASP.NET forums with a reference to my post from July entitled “AJAX: A Panacea, or a Pending Train Wreck?” UkBtlog responded so I’m blogging my reply below: UkBtlog states:I think …
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Visual C++ and LINQ – is it Needed?
Esther Schindler who is the editor of the email newsletter DevSource Update recently wrote about Visual C++ and Microsoft’s LINQ Project that adds the ability to use SQL code directly in VB and C# programs (emphasis mine): Ever since the PDC, developers and the press have been talking about the LINQ technology that Microsoft showed off. …
Google’s Personalized Home Page Feature Request: Dynamically-generated Bookmarks
Ever since I first started browsing the web, I’ve wished for a home page that would keep track of where I surfed and then show me a list of dynamically-generated bookmarks that are in descending order of the ones I use most. For example, if I go to Google News a lot, news.google.com should dynamically …
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Google’s Personalized Home Page finally won me over!
For years I’ve kept an HTML file of links in the My Document directory called "MyHomePage.htm" because nobody ever created a home page service that worked for me. Well, Google finally has and hence I’ve switched all my different machine’s browsers to point to my Google Personalized Home Page: Why do I like it? It’s …
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All I want for IIS7 is my mod_rewrite!
I’ve recently been spending a lot of time pondering and pontificating on web architecture, and it occurs to me that Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS), now in it’s sixth version, is still pathetically lacking in one key feature that I think it critical for properly architecting websites. And this key feature has been part of/available …
Is Using JavaScript to Emulate Clicking an HREF a Bad Technique?
Arshad Tanveer just commented on my post Well Designed URLs are Beautiful! Arshad felt I was being “a tad too harsh on links triggering JavaScript.” Well he was right; I was being harsh. But I was being harsh on purpose! My reason for being harsh on using JavaScript instead of basic HTML hypertext was to …
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Well Designed URLs are Beautiful!
With all the talk of AJAX these days and with my concerns about poorly implemented AJAX-based sites and what they may mean for the web, I’m once again reminded of an opinion I’ve had for a long time: Well designed URL is one of the most valuable aspects of the web. Put more succinctly: Well …