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What is Adobe thinking not supporting new computers?

October 26, 2008

I just bought my new computer, an HP m9350f, a month ago and installed Firefox and Opera as part of my first day setup. I have a Netflix subscription that I use primarily to watch streaming movies, usually on my computer in the living room, not the one in my bedroom. Netflix only streams with [...]

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The future of Google

July 4, 2007

I spend more time writing on forums than on this blog, so I’m going to start sharing the more interesting threads I participate in here as well.
WebDesignofMaine: Google is number 1. I think Google is going to take over the world. Think about where we are as a civilization, the information age, and who ever [...]

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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 and [...]

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Stumbling Across the Web #2

January 14, 2007

Where the Hell is Matt?
Another YouTube viral marketing video. Did you notice the Stride gum logo appear several times? Would you have noticed it if I didn’t mention it?

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Detecting Flash and Java with JavaScript

January 3, 2007

Two of the new reports I hope to provide with the new W3Counter are whether a site’s visitors have Flash and Java installed. Since different browsers, and different versions of browsers, make plugin information available in different ways, this is proving more challenging than expected. I have a first attempt at detection of Flash and [...]

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W3Counter 4.0: AJAX in Symfony is a Breeze

December 27, 2006

I’ve gotta say, reproducing the AJAX effects from W3Counter within symfony was much easier than expected. It took only a few minutes to master and the code practically wrote itself.