Some one sent me a link to this page about REST and when I went to print it, up popped THE MOST AWESOME Print Dialog I’ve EVER seen on the web! I so hope this guy starts a trend… P.S. Unfortunately it doesn’t work for me to link directly to it, or I would.
Open Source Web Design Templates
The open source ethos is growing fast, and it has finally made its way to website template designs: www.oswd.org. No longer does one have to go to Template Monster or the likes and pay $40-$100 for a cool web design![1]. This guy ROCKS! His name is Francis J. Skettino and he’s from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Do …
Conventional Wisdom, Assumptions, and Pot Roast
Conventional wisdom is filled with assumptions. One of the things that makes conventional wisdom right most of the time is that those assumptions are usually valid. But sometimes they are not. One of my favorite little anecdotes that illustrates this is the tale of the pot roast: A newly-wed husband noticed that every time his …
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Quick Reference for Web Developers
I just noticed today in my blog logs that I’ve been getting referrals to my Well Designed URLs blog post from a website called LOCALHOST80.com. I checked it out and it’s a pretty nice list of resources on a whole ranges of topics of interest to web developers, listed below. It appears they handpicked some …
About TiddlyWiki
I was listening to one of Scott Hansleman’s podcasts the other day,and in it he mentioned the open source TiddlyWiki so I decided to check it out. For those of you not familiar with wikis yet, have you been living under a rock? (Sorry, just kidding, you can read up on Wikis over at Wikipedia.) …
“Future of Web Apps” Conference was Incredible!
The past two days I attended Carson Workshop’s "The Future of Web Apps" presented at The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco and I must say it was one of the best conferences I’ve been to in years! Every one of the speakers was excellent each providing invaluable insight, and the energy level was …
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About “One Laptop per Child”
If you’ve not heard of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) you should listen to this presentation Nicholas Negroponte gave about his $100 laptop at the February 2006 T.E.D. conference which I found over at the T.E.D. Blog. I learned of the T.E.D. blog by reading If your idea is worth spreading, then presentation matters over …
FolderShare bought by Microsoft, and now (currently) free!
I’ve been using FolderShare for a few months now and love it. But I just heard that Microsoft bought it and that it is now free. Cool! If you normally work on a desktop but need a laptop for travel, FolderShare is a "must have.’ If you need to share files with people who are …
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Links and Discussion related (indirectly) to ISAPI Rewrite
I just found a blog post by Shirley E. Kaiser at her blog entitled Brainstorms & Raves containing an awesome collection of links and related discussion about Apache’s .htaccess. While admittedly I write mostly for an audience of developers that use Microsoft-technologies, many of the items discussed apply to Microsoft’s IIS if you use a 3rd party …
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RSS Feeds Delivered to your Email Inbox, for Free!
I recently came across a free service I’ve been using for about a week, and I’m finding I really like it. This free service is called RssFwd, as in "RSS Forward", and it’s totally simply to use. Just type an RSS URL into the text box on the RssFwd home page and click sumbit, then key in your …
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