ISSN 1496-3221
June 30, 2003
I haven’t commented on the pre-release of Mac OS X 10.3 yet, primarily because I’d like to play with it in person before passing any cursory judgements. Since I wasn’t fortunate enough to attend WWDC this past week, I’ll have to be patient until Apple posts Panther on the Developer Connection site. In the meantime, … More
June 25, 2003
If you noticed the server outage this morning, please accept my apologies. If you didn’t notice, just skip right over this post, thank you very much. It seems that after nearly a month of uptime, my infamously leakyWebStar server managed to use up every last bit of its memory partition. It didn’t crash. It’s didn’t … More
June 24, 2003
azer tweaks copy images directory finish updating vendor templates recrunch logs since january re: solus remove confirmation prompts search and destroy icon_ and ds_store from ftp evolution without jarring the user experience stream on home not centered under ie win externalize search specific javascript table assisted transitional xhtml layout tracking term streams to relate relationships … More
June 23, 2003
Flower petals drying on a paper towel. Calgary.
June 21, 2003
The display becoming the manipulation interface to the information takes another intriguing leap past the simple touch screen metaphor with Gummi, a prototype developed at the Sony Interaction Lab in Tokyo. Although the associated QuickTime movie only gives you a vague idea of how a flexible device may work to navigate and switch between modes, … More
June 20, 2003
Thanks for the sympathetic shoulder Jeffrey, but at the root of this whole dot-conundrum is that I personally don’t have a choice of development platforms. Recess has started and sides have already been picked for this game of kick ball. This is what I’ve got to work with. However, encouraging advice has been sliding through … More
June 19, 2003
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June 19, 2003
If you’re a regular consumer of this weblog using NetNewsWire or some other similarly fabulous RSS newsreader, you may have noticed that the article links haven’t been working. In fact, I hadn’t even noticed until someone sent me a message saying so. This problem is apparently related to the migration of this weblog (and most … More
June 19, 2003
Several kind souls responded to my question asking whether a mixed marriage between .NET and everyone’s favourite web standards would fly. While some of you simply wished me luck, others offered condolences at the unfortunate choice of development platform and related personal experiences of smacking heads against various walls. Still others giggled politely at my … More
June 16, 2003
Call me crazy if you must, but I need to know if anyone out there in bloggerland has worked on a .Net-based site using pure, unadulterated XHTML and CSS? Is this even within the realm of possibility or am I setting myself up for a shot at America’s Funniest Home Web Development Projects? Judging by … More