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Busy Day at the Office for Mozilla

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

The much publicized release of Firefox 3.0 and the goal of setting a world record for the most downloads in 24 hrs has the Mozilla servers on the ropes.
Here’s a direct link to the setup file: Firefox Setup 3.0.exe. Good luck!
Technorati Tags: Firefox, Mozilla, FF3

ASP.NET MVC Presentation Notes

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

This post contains notes, links and a .zip of the project I built in my presentation to the Lubbock .NET Users Group. Requirements for this project include the following:

ASP.NET 3.5 Framework
ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP
ASP.NET MVC Toolkit
Visual Studio 2008

Sites with Tutorial, Tips, Help, etc..

Scott Guthrie Intro and Tutorials:

Intro
Part 1
Part 2: URL Routing
Part 3: Passing ViewData [...]

How to Become an Email Processing Ninja

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Merlin Mann recently addressed Google employees and advised them to become email processing ninjas. “Inbox Zero”, based on Getting Things Done by David Allen, he advises that your email inbox should be empty when you have finished checking your email. “Checking your email” shouldn’t consist of simply scanning your inbox for new messages [...]

iPhone Instant Messenger

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

So, apparently there are some complaints about the lack of an IM client for the iPhone. “Sure, it has SMS…but we want the real deal!” I think the existence of Meebo makes this a virtual non-issue. Early reports claim that it will work because the iPhone’s browser is reported to be a [...]

Safari Getting Closer

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Following up on this post…
Andrew Dupont mentions some of the improvements to the next version of Apple’s Safari web browser rapidly approaching release.
Meanwhile, the Webkit development team is focusing on stabilization.
Technorati Tags: Safari, Webkit, Apple, Leopard

Walmart Hates Firefox Users?

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Walmart has launched it’s movie download site, and labeled it Beta. How “Web 2.0″ of them. Apparently Walmart doesn’t like Firefox users.
Here it is in Firefox 2.0, Windows XP:

…and here it is in IE7, Windows XP:

…and in Safari 2.0.4, Apple 10.4.8:

Technorati Tags: Walmart, mediadownloads.walmart.com, Firefox

Installing .NET 3.0 Framework on Windows XP SP2

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Why would you want to do this? I’m not sureyet, but as an ASP.NET developer, I know I’m probably going to need to understand how to use it.
The .NET Framework 3.0 adds new technologies to the .NET Framework 2.0, which makes the .NET Framework 3.0 a superset of the .NET Framework 2.0. You [...]

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