I’m sitting in a conference room watching a demo of the new ExtJS Core, which is basically a “light” version of ExtJS that is meant to be used on public websites. This sort of breaks my existing mental model for ExtJS. Previously, I thought of ExtJS as being great for applications and jQuery as the…
I can’t even believe I am letting my hopes get this high. Check out this SmashingMagazine article about Internet Explorer 8.1. The thing that pops out, and it pops out ALOT is shown in this picture: This is GIGANTIC. It is showing support for Firefox add-ins The biggest reason I had internet explorer is because…
Go to google and search for “foo bar” You get some variety of this: http://www.google.com/search?q=foo+bar Notice the q= part. It is describing the term you searched for. Now go to yahoo.com and do the exact same thing. http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=foo+bar Notice the p= part. It’s p not q. Why is Yahoo using “p” when Google is using…
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 yesterday. (Funny, that link says IE7 all over it.) I have such conflicting feelings about Microsoft. They have provided a ton of my primary software for over 20 years. I started on DOS, then moved through every single version of their operating systems. I learned to install their servers and…
Lately, I have been really frustrated with Antivirus programs. The user experience is usually painful. I manage dozens of machines from friends and family and at work. I install antivirus all the time and have used alot of them over the years. Here is my rundown of the bad and the ugly. Norton Antivirus Every…
I just couldn’t help myself. I had to install Windows 7 on the Netbook. I upgraded the ram from 1G to 2G for just $25 from Amazon. It took an hour or so to install. No upgrade is allowed from XP to 7, so I had to do a clean install. Not a big deal…
“Say hello to my little friend!” I just go my new netbook, the Asus EeePC 1000 HE. It is slightly heavier than I expected, but not too bad. The screen is 10″ and seems plenty big for what I need. Just to be clear on my purposes, I need something for: Taking on trips that…
Marketo launched it’s Lead Management 3.0 product this weekend. It has been a long time coming (- been working on it for 4 months). The scope was pretty big. We refactored the entire UI from top to bottom. We improved usability in countless ways. The graphic design is polished and consistent. We added a bunch…
We have been using MediaTemple for a while to host Marketo’s public website. They have a great design sense and cost twice as much as Bluehost, but we hoped that the added expense would mean better quality. Recently, we moved from their DV to GS services and got put on Cluster 2. From that moment,…
Lately, I have been itching to use a custom font for my headers. One of my unwritten rules of powerpoint presentations is to use an interesting font. Times New Roman and Arial are just saying to your audience, “I didn’t feel like taking 5 minutes to make this interesting on your eyes”. I had been…
I have been looking for a solution to turn PNG-24 with alpha transparency into a PNG-8 WITH alpha transparency for a while. This possible with Fireworks, but I didn’t really want to install, buy or fireworks. (It scares me). Side question: Why o’ Why can’t Adobe make Photoshop do this? Ok, the instructions on the…
I switched over to Threatfire for my anti-virus/malware protection. I had been an evangelist for Avast for quite some time, but the registration process was just a little too annoying. It seemed that every time I turned around, I had to re-register. I have alot of computers that I take care of (friends/family) so it all…
Kevin at work pointed me at a new Instant Messenger on the block called Digsby. Installation was a little scary because it asks you if you want to install all this other junk. I guess they need to make some money, but I clicked “decline” all the way through. You have to make a digsby…
Trying out a FLV Player plugin for WordPress. This is my presentation from The Ajax Experience, except I am hosting it myself. [hana-flv-player video=”http://commadot.com/test/TAE2008.flv” width=”400″ height=”320″ player=”3″ autoplay=”false” loop=”false” autorewind=”true” /]