From Microsoft Confirms IE9 Won’t Come to XP – HotHardware:

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Since the ranks of Windows XP will not be diminishing any time soon, this means that IE8 support in websites will be around for a very long time to come. This is not a bad thing actually. In fact, IE8 does a pretty good job b...

The emails over the last few days have been a bit overwhelming.

Just to be clear, though I may continue writing these stories, they will no longer appear as part of the BSAP podcast. The team at BSAP have decided to take their stories in a different direction. I received an email telling me that m...

From Amy Fowler wants your grubby hands off of UIs, and she’s right (yes, more JavaFX) | JavaWorld’s Daily Brew:

So how do you get a beautiful application? You have it designed by people who understand visual design and usability. Period.

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Even though Amy Fowler was talking about Ja...

Now, it’s one thing for a company like Netflix to “accidentally” exclude Chrome, but I cannot imagine a valid excuse for Google Web Toolkit not supporting Google’s own Chrome for Development Mode.

This looks like a genuine #googlefail 🙁

Over the weekend, I redesigned my website. I’m mostly happy with what I have so far. Some of it was inspired by an old design I did for my site when it had been powered by WordPress.

I have a question for anyone reading this. Are the Block Headers (SUBSCRIBE, LINKS, JOURNAL, FRIENDS) necessa...

Often, while reading a web page, I will find something worth mentioning here on my site. The code below builds a Bookmarklet that makes a new blog entry with a prepopulated title and whatever text I have highlighted in the browser quoted in its body. This code also depends upon the Drupal Prepopula...

This is helping to crystalize my thinking about Web Applications. I like Single Page Interfaces, but I have yet to articulate the reasoning behind my preference, even to myself.

In fact, I’m not sure that I am capable of that articulation yet. At the moment, my mind is a sieve. And, I am pouring e...

Marrying web pages with applications is a tricky business. One must remember that the history of the Web affects end user expectation of how a site will behave. As we start to embed applications into sites, we must learn how best to bring these two disparate sets of expectations together.

From Im...

Here’s the formula, set out clearly in a few minutes of video. Funny, cute, and sadly — amazingly accurate.

Netflix Watch Instantly should work fine in Google Chrome. After all, it is using the same rendering engine as Safari, so it should just work, right?

The answer is not that simple…

Google Chrome for the Mac is 100% capable of running Netflix Watch Instantly, but the web-geeks at Netflix are ba...

I love running my site in Drupal. But, there is one thing that I miss from my days using WordPress — Auto-discovery of my RSS feed(s).

It sounds like a small thing, I know, but when you use your website to push information around the internet, it really helps to have auto-discovery.

By defau...

You came to me
the day you died

But, not to say goodbye
No

To ask me
simply
to remember.

Slowly but surely, my tech life gets more “Googley”.

I spend my days coding using GWT (Google Web Toolkit) using the Google Eclipse Plugin. I will be going to the Google I/O 2010 conference, including Google’s Boot Camp. Gmail is my main source of contact for email and instant messaging...

“The first story arc, without giving too much away, is basically a simple ship chase sequence, battle scene, then daring escape. Within this, however, are mired threads of politics, prophecy, daring feats and some difficult decisions required from the commander of the Battlestar. Steven Jay Cohen...

As season 2 draws to a close, some questions are answered and new questions are born.

This story was originally released at BrokenSea Audio Productions under a Creative Commons license. It is re-released (and possibly re-engineered) here, by the original author, as part of an expanded story...