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 …
Windows Server Core! Finally: A stripped-down version of Windows that loses the GUI!
InformationWeek reports "Microsoft Tests Two Flavors Of Windows Server" Quoting from the article: Beta tests of the next version of Windows Server include a stripped-down version, called Windows Longhorn Server Core, that loses the Windows GUI and includes only the most common server functions. All I can say is "Finally!!!"
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AJAX: A Panacea, or a Pending Train Wreck?
As a former MapQuest user, I find Google Map’s interactive interface built with AJAX (a combination of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) really cool and lots of fun to use. And Google’s GMail, also built with AJAX, has a nice snappy UI that’s much better than Hotmail. And the more websites that adopt AJAX techniques the …
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As Rip Van Winkle Re-Awakens…
Okay, so you may have noticed that my prior blog post was a really, really long time ago. Why? Well…. We hosted my blog on a server here in the office. I made the mistake of not mirroring the hard drive on that server. My net admin made the mistake of thinking that server wasn’t …
Outsourcing Realities: Time to Stop Whining
I “borrowed” the title of this post from this op-ed from SDTimes by Edward Yourdon. Ed latest book OUTSOURCE : Competing in the Global Productivity Race was just released and I guess he’s writing op-eds to promote it. I’ve planned to blog about outsourcing for a while, but haven’t gotten to it because of the …
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The Wonders of a Stress Free Lunch
I just finished blogging about my mini-vacation weekend riding motorcycles in the north Georgia mountains with my father, but I decided to split it in to because this was logically seperate. After we left Suches, Georgia on Sunday around 1pm, we traveled south to Dahlonega, Georgia to meet Kathleen Dollard who had scheduled to have …
Getting into the Zone
I don’t blog too much about my personal life but this weekend was too great to stay silent. My dad is an avid motorcyclist. At 65, he still rides one of his several motorcycles whenever it’s not raining. Though he has a newer one, his favorite is his 1989 Honda NT650 Hawk, a V-twin. Growing …
Pricing, and the Economics of Value Creation
I’m not an Economist; during my high school and college, economics was for me in the category of “couldn’t be more boring.” But time has passed and both events of the world and my life have increasingly interested me in economics, especially as they relate to making business decisions. And I’ve read a lot about …
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Just Say NO to Extending the “My” Classes in VB 2005, Redux
Last month I wrote a really long blog about the “My” Classes in VB 2005 with two hypothetical scenarios regarding the future of .NET and development because of the introduction of the “My” classes. I had a lot of fun writing it, but afterward realized it was far too long to get across my key …
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