Jack of all trades; Master of one.
What’s the next big thing? AJAX? Ruby on Rails? PC Virtualization? Open-Source Software? Data Security? Open Office File Formats? Windows Vista? Windows Live? Apple’s iWhatever? Yeah, all those things will get lots of hype, but the next big thing is something we’ve had access to all along: Simplicity Are my thoughts revolutionary? Nah, I’ve been …
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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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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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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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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 …
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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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 …
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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