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Stumbling Across the Web #4

February 20, 2007

Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application
37Signals’ book on web application development is now free to read online. No more $19 to download. It’s written without much fluff and with a lot of whitespace — a quick read.

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Microsoft Interviews: I Won an Xbox 360!

January 16, 2007

I finally had the last of this round of interviews — my first attempt to find a coop job for April through September to finish the work experience requirement of my degree at Drexel. I met with two really nice people from Microsoft in the morning. First, a recruiter for the IT department that [...]

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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 [...]

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PHP Development Environment

December 20, 2006

There have been four phases to the evolution of my PHP development environment. First, I used notepad, FTP and a shared hosting account. WS_FTP to be exact, made by IPSwitch which once sent me a free t-shirt for sending in a testimonial for their website.
Once I took on a job working on a PHP [...]

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Interview with SAP

December 18, 2006

I just got back from my interview at SAP America. SAP is the world’s third largest software company with about 38,000 employees and 36,000 customers. I was interviewing for a paid 6-month internship as an Application Developer for their SAP Enterprise Portal group.