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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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Bringing the web stats to your site

October 14, 2007

I’m still working on the widgets for W3Counter. I’ve have too many other things that need attention recently to bring anything to finished form, but at least I have 6 of the 8 planned widgets working and in testing. You’ve already seen pWidget, the page stats overlay. Here are a couple more:

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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 databases. [...]

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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 #3

January 21, 2007

Agile processes, are they killing our children?
A cynically comical look at how software life cycles are really done.. among other things. Thanks to dagfinn at SitePoint for that link.

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Amazon Launches Independent “Endless.com” Brand

January 5, 2007

Yesterday, Amazon.com quietly launched its latest initiative, an independent brand selling high-end shoes, handbags and accessories. Amazon.com still carries its own, broader selection of these products, while Endless.com offers a boutique-like shopping experience online, following in the footsteps of Zappos (Zappos Couture) and Gap (Piperlime).

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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: Getting Started

December 23, 2006

As you might’ve guessed from the comments in the screenshot in my Development Environment post, I was setting up to start this project.