Posted on Wednesday, 31st October 2007 by admin
Just some stuff I picked up along the way…
The popular Aptana IDE goes 1.0. I used some of the previous milestones and really enjoyed the javascript debugging and syntax highlighting. Not to mention, it comes packaged with jQuery.
Wireless SD cards for your digital camera. Do you know how much fun I could have with one [...]
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Posted on Friday, 26th October 2007 by admin
…or ‘the web as an application’.
Creating a distractionless environment is getting harder with the latest browsers. When creating or browsing normal web pages, I would hate it if a site stripped my browser. In certain circumstances, like internal web based applications, I’m finding it more and more necessary. Keep reading to learn how I [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 24th October 2007 by admin
The screenshot to the left is from a recent email I received from Expedia.com. They wish to know about the great unknown. I guess I should point them the way of the Oracle or Yellow Pages. Perhaps they heard about my rant over the Arizona Golf and Conference resort.
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Posted on Wednesday, 24th October 2007 by admin
Sarah had to go to the emergency room last night for about five hours. She was having a sharp pain behind her knee and her foot was tingling. The doctors quickly diagnosed a blood clot behind he knee with an ultrasound. Tourniquets were placed above and below her knee. A laser was then used to [...]
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Posted on Monday, 22nd October 2007 by admin
We celebrated Alex turning three yesterday with the family. Can anybody guess the theme?
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Posted on Friday, 19th October 2007 by admin
sNews 1.6 Theme: book store
Template Author: Dieter Schneide
Other Templates by Dieter
Demo: View
Download: bookstore.zip
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Posted on Friday, 19th October 2007 by admin
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The conference
Sarah and I have returned safely from the West Wind Web Connection conference. It was really awesome to finally meet so many of the people that I hang out with on the Web Connect forums in person. Web Connection 5.30 is awesome. The wwBusiness Objects and JSON handling is very powerful and something that [...]
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Posted on Monday, 15th October 2007 by admin
This is mostly knee jerk, sarcasm, and my pessimism with Windows showing through. Take it with a grain of salt.
I don’t like Vista. That system has been a headache for me since day one. I normally build my own systems, but a local reseller had a really good deal on a system that came with [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 11th October 2007 by admin
As always, you can see all of my Prosper coverage in one place.
Prosper P2P lending as of 10/11/2007:
15,175 loans totaling $92,772,263.54
2,229 loans are late, defaulted, repurchased, or bankrupt for a loss of $11,201,836.00
Wow…just…wow. How can this be anything but a failed model?
Stats courtesy of lendingstats.com
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Posted on Friday, 5th October 2007 by admin
I was recently contacted by Packt Publishing about reviewing two new jQuery books:
Learning jQuery
jQuery Reference Guide
The books are on their way and it will take me some time to review them. Once the reviews are posted, look for them on Amazon.com also. I’m excited to have a chance to look these over and share my [...]
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