I have so many open projects right now. It makes it impossible to finish anything. I think it’s important to start a job and finish it, no matter how small the project is, just to keep your head in the game. I tried that tonight. I completely overhauled and cleaned up my jQuery cookbook area. …
Do not ask for whom the Jets lose. They lose for me. I know it’s just the first game, and they did play the team favored to win the Superbowl, but I was really hoping they would win. The offense and the secondary did ok. But the pass-rush and run-stop was non-existant. Chad Pennington also…
I am seeing a trend. It seems all the new good software is from Google. Recently, I realized that I read alot of blogs. I was getting annoyed that I had to go to so many different sites to read them, so I finally decided I need a “Feed Aggregator“. I took a quick look…
At first, I thought, “Yeah, that would be nice. Digg for people. Like a digital “Thank You”. I did a quick Google and saw that a company is doing that for some people. The comments at the bottom are incredibly pessimistic. They are screaming Ego! Bad! Lame! So I thought about it a little deeper.…
The technology is getting better and better. Google is announcing a version of PowerPoint and Wiki software in the next few weeks/months. I think this is a turning point for the industry. I have already started using Google Spreadsheets and have been a paying customer of Picasa. We just switched our entire family calendar to…
Autocomplete is one of those UI widgets that can revolutionize an application. Jörn Zaefferer has developed a beautiful lightweight version of autocomplete for jQuery. In my Marketo app, I am heavily using Jack Slocum’s EXT autocomplete. Once I introduced it, it really eliminated alot of complexity, not to mention modal dialogs. As a UI tool,…
I finally got invited to the Trillian Astra alpha. I have been waiting for a long time for this. It’s a beautiful looking application and actually improves upon the reliable Trillian 3.1 that I have been using for years. It adds GTalk support and a slick new interface using tons of alpha transparency. Apparently, it…
I still can’t stop coughing! I can’t concentrate like this. Make it stop! Make it stop! I played tennis this weekend. I thought, “Maybe I could exercise and that will help”. It didn’t help. I had to quit after half a set. Ugh!