Windows Vista Installation Sucks

I like Windows Vista. A lot. I’ve been running it full time on multiple computers since September. But the installation process sucks. I’ve done it 7 or 8 times now, and it only just worked once. That was the first time I installed it on my Averatec laptop as an upgrade from Win XP to [...]


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Got the Job: Microsoft

I just got a voice mail and e-mail from one of the Microsoft recruiters I interviewed with last week letting me know I have a job. They’re hiring me as an Application Developer. I’ll be writing both Windows and web applications with C#/ASP.NET and SQL server.


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Detecting Flash and Java with JavaScript

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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