Hmm, I seemed to have broken my wordpress editor. It started with me trying to install the plugin to make the comments allow rich text editing. This threw an error about some lang function not being there. The forums weren’t that helpful, but one said to upgrade TinyMCE. So I gave that a try. Well,…
I actually just broke my wordpress with some theme that went haywire. Well, I guess it’s about time I made my own theme anyway. I am starting with the sandbox. I will be editing and upgrading this theme over time. First thing is clearly jQuery. Let’s get that bad boy in their right now.
I just upgraded to WordPress 2.7 beta 2. It was confusing at first because I had a plagin that hid the tree on the left. It’s an interesting upgrade so far. Some things seem better for me, and some things just rub me the wrong way. It’s just a beta, so I am not terribly…
I just upgraded my work computer to Photoshop CS4 Standard. I am not a power user of Photoshop. Actually, I am just a hack, but I get alot done with it. Sort of like my jQuery skills. Before going in to the upgrade, I want to declare my pre-conceived notions. I had already assumed that…
There has been alot of news eminating from Redmond about Windows 7. I have looked closely at the screenshots. What am I missing here? Where is the “new”? I can’t find a new feature or benefit? Will it be faster? Really faster or fake faster? This just looks like Vista SP2! It’s got bug…
Wow, that title was a mouthful. Ok, bottom line: It sucks. There is a term: convergence. It basically means that I could get video on my computer and watch it on my TV or mobile device. Specifically, it means giving my television (or connected devices) codecs and access to the internet. First is DirecTV. There…
I used to use Experts-Exchange alot. I really liked it and racked up a bunch of points. I could answer people’s questions and get instant positive karma (and points). It was a fun activity and it felt morally rewarding. I started in 2003 and sort of faded out on it over time. Then, in mid…
There is no such thing as SaaS management software. There are bug trackers like Jira and Bugzilla. There is Agile project management software like TargetProcess or FogBugz. There is Microsoft Project. But there isn’t something I look at and say, “That would work to manage the never-ending work a SaaS startup goes through.” At least,…
Without any doubt in my mind, this is the holy grail of web development. A superDiv. I spoke with Brad Neuberg about this at AjaxExperience. He was working on possibly using the <canvas> tag to do interesting things like this. Corner.js does this pretty well for <img> tags, but not for generic divs. This is…
Remember Browser Possession? It was at the end of last years AjaxExperience. I had figured that it was a dead issue, but apparently it has come up again a few times in this years conference. I asked the Adobe guys about it and got a surprising answer. They are talking about doing it with the…
I think it went well. I had nice reviews from people afterward. So far, the conference has been fun and informative. I have met lots of new and exciting people. I love being around such brain power. It’s inspiring and exhausting. Somehow though, I feel like last years was more edgy and exciting. Some passion…
NOTE: I am not an engineer. I am very good with HTML/CSS and I love jQuery. The following is from that point of view. I was wondering what the state of RIA Frameworks were these days. Have more competitors popped up? How easy are they? As a non-engineer, I wondered if any were easy for…
ALERT: This is the coolest thing I have seen in MONTHS! If you have Picasa, you have to try this. It’s called Name Tagging. You enable it. Mine took about an hour or so to crawl through all the photos. When it was done, I realized that it put these little squares (only available if…
I decided to try using Chrome for a specific set of sites. It shouldn’t be a surprise that the list is “Sites owned by Google”. This includes Gmail, Picasa, Reader, Docs, Calendar, etc. I have already noticed an improvement in performance. Specifically, Picasa is MUCH faster. I don’t know what happened, but its going super…