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A Not So Fond Farewell…

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

To IE 6…Technorati Tags: IE6, browser

IE7.js Beta 3

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

I somehow failed to notice that Dean Edwards’ IE7.js was bumped to beta 3 back in February. IE7.js is a javascript library which, when included in your web page, makes MSIE 5-6 behave like MSIE7. I found it to be extremely useful, particularly when dealing with png images. I’m looking for a change log to [...]

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 [...]

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 and opening [...]

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 full version of [...]

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