Founder of Awio Web Services LLC,
graduate student at Drexel U.,
community advisor at SitePoint.
New monitor and BSoDs
Can’t say I got much actual work done this weekend. I spent too much of it working on replacing my monitor and trying to build a media center PC to turn the old one into a nice TV.
Multiple local websites with Apache in Windows
Recently I’ve been working on 3 or 4 projects at the same time on my desktop. While my primary IDE has changed to Visual Studio (even for PHP with VS.PHP), the rest of my development environment is mostly the same as it’s been since December. My projects are growing in code size, and the amount [...]
Exposé for Windows Vista
Exposé is an OS X feature that lets you see all open windows on screen at once, then quickly bring the one you need forward. Like Flip3D, this clone for Windows Vista uses Aero for beautiful transitions and live window screenshots, but unlike Flip3D, is actually useful. Try it out, it’s free and only 350KB.
Safari for Windows
It crashed the first time I ran it. It has its own UI; no Aero title bar, menus, buttons or scroll bars. I can’t close it by double clicking in the upper left corner of my screen. It’s too thick with its font antialiasing. But it runs on Windows, which means I don’t need a [...]
Who are Digg.com’s Users?
W3Counter.com’s global stats report was recently featured on Digg.com, the community-driven link sharing site. It isn’t the first time W3Counter’s been voted to the top as Digg’s users are passionate about technology and love to know what everyone else is using — what browsers, operating systems, screen resolutions — the exact stats W3Counter reports on.
Handling UTF-8 in JavaScript, PHP, and Non-UTF8 Databases
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. [...]
A Whole New Web Starts Now
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 [...]
The Vista Suicide Note: Content Protection Gone Overboard
I somehow stumbled into a blog debate of Vista DRM today which led me to A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection, a lengthy but extremely interesting look into the world of Vista’s content protection measures. The author, security researcher Peter Gutmann, sums up the document as follows:
The Vista Content Protection specification could very [...]
2007 Guide to CSS Support in Email
Campaign Monitor’s released their 2007 Guide to CSS Support in Email, a comprehensive study of CSS support by both desktop and webmail clients. This guide is an essential for anyone sending HTML mails out, especially in wide distribution as part of a mailing list or e-mail marketing.
Microsoft is a good thing
It’s been a week since I started working for Microsoft. So far, so good. The best part of this internship so far is the location. Washington is like one huge suburb. No matter how far I drive in any direction it’s the same — beautiful homes spaced out among plenty of grass and trees, people [...]
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