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AJAX Logo

Any good technology worthy of it's hype deserves a logo. AJAX is just such a technology but it doesn't have a graphical mark. So I took a swing. Feel free to use it as you see fit.

Office 2007 - I like it.

I've been playing around with Office 2007 for the past week and it's been interesting. Overall I have to give the Office team a big thumbs up. This is the most significant release since at lea...

Multpoint Touchpads

The new Apple MacBook allows users to interact with the touchpad with multiple fingers. If you drag both fingers down it recognizes both fingers and scrolls the page like a mouse wheel. If you...

Basic Etiquette Rules For Using Email

Over the last 10 years a basic etiquette to sending email that has evolved. These rules are considered by some to be common wisdom, unfortunately this wisdom isn't as common as most would like...

Where is my missing cent?

Craig, my co-worker and founder of Jobvent, was working on a .net application that had a simple function. We had a floating point number that was adding up prices. We had about 200 items to ad...

AOL Explorer doesn't suck

AOL explorer has made some interesting progress and although some may scoff at the idea AOL Explorer seems to be a fairly capable browser. Built on top of the rendering infrastructure of Inter...

Cellphone Radio Station

You don't need to shoot a rocket into space to deliver a digital audio experience. XM and Sirius picked the wrong technology and while they loose money hand over fist the cell phone companies ...

The Universal Binary

People are fond of making predictions about Apple so I'll make one of my one. Apple will release a universal binary interpreter for Windows. What does that mean? It means that developers who d...

Why did Vista Slip?

1 - The project was neither driven by schedule, well defined feature goals or quality. There's no way to tell when the project is done if there aren't clear metrics for at least two out of the...

Driving on the left

I just got back from a trip to the US Virgin Islands (highly recommended) where I was surprised to learn that people drive on the left hand side of the road, with the steering wheel also on th...