ARCHIVE October, 2008

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My Spontaneously Exploding Dishes

May 29, 2007

I really can’t explain this. I was quietly working on my computer, hunting down integration information to build an ecommerce site, when I heard a loud sound from the kitchen. I couldn’t figure out what the sound could be, but imagined something might’ve fallen off a counter onto the floor. I go in, look [...]

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Paprika

May 26, 2007

It’s nice to see good anime make its way onto an American theater screen. I just saw Paprika which opened in a few cities today; in this area as part of the Seattle International Film Festival. It’s from the director of Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, and Paranoia Agent. I found it entertaining and fun [...]

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Handling UTF-8 in JavaScript, PHP, and Non-UTF8 Databases

May 25, 2007

Dealing with characters outside the ASCII range on the web is tough. It’s tough in other environments too, but particularly for web applications since text needs to move through so many places without being mangled — from user input, through JavaScript, into and out of PHP and string manipulation functions, into and out of [...]

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Thoughts on W3Counter page view limits

May 16, 2007

I started writing this as a response to Josh’s comment on my last post, but it’s getting long enough to warrant a new post and, if anyone’s interested, some discussion in the comments here.
Dan, quick question about the new pricing… is the page views limit new? I was planning to upgrade to a paid [...]

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Pixelotto Update

May 9, 2007

The Pixelotto Experiment was one of the most popular entries on this blog for several weeks reflecting the hype surrounding the site’s launch. Tew’s million dollar homepage copy made online headlines in December, but never gained the media attention the original site saw. By mid-January, sales of the pixel ads had almost completely stopped, [...]

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A Whole New Web Starts Now

May 2, 2007

Microsoft’s MIX07 conference has stirred up the web development world with demos of Silverlight, a new platform for rich internet applications. Code-named WPF/e (Windows Presentation Foundation/everywhere), Silverlight brings the full power of WPF to browsers and eventually Xbox and mobile devices. On the surface, it’s much like Flash, distributed as a small browser plugin [...]

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Early Spider-Man 3 Screening

May 1, 2007

I essentially had the day off thanks to a 3 hour division meeting planted in the middle of the day today. I’ll also have most of Thursday off to go see Spider-Man 3 with the rest of MS IT. Apparently it’ll be the first west coast screening of the movie, just for us. I [...]