Category Archives: Industry
PSD2HTML: Terrible Pricing for Web Development
I was absolutely disgusted by the pricing strategy at PSD2Web. Here are a few examples, and an explanation as to why the practice feels shady.
Another Sony DRM Blunder?
I recently bought “Stranger Than Fiction” from Best Buy, figured I’d watch it tonight. I put it in my DVD player, a Sony DVPCX995V, and it began to read the disc.
Then, the damn thing shut down.
I was really confused. I messed around with it for a few minutes, then I jumped into a chat session [...]
When email parsing gets ‘glitchy’
When Google introduced their online Calendar solution, I was pleasantly surprised when I received an email soon after containing an upcoming event, GMail offered to “Add it to my Calendar.” Obviously there were parsing rules in place that recognized a date and/or time, even guessed correctly at the name of the event.
Unfortunately, as in all rules assumed in parsing, [...]
Re: YouTube and Comedy Central
Looks like I’m not the only one who thinks so:
Comedy Central clips back up on YouTube
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061101-8126.html
Hopefully they’ll be smarter this time, (and next time, eh?)
;-D
Comedy Central and YouTube’s Lost Opportunity
Regarding: Viacom asks YouTube to purge certain clips
Many are speculating on the latest request by Viacom (read: Comedy Central) that YouTube (read: Google) take down clips of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, Stephen Colbert’s The Colbert Report and South Park. I’m not speculating on the business dealings… it’s typical copyright protection by a popular source. [...]
The Ajax Experience: Day "0"
A few coworkers and I have traveled to Boston, MA for The Ajax Experience conference at the Westin Waterfront. It’s running today thru Wednesday and is covering the gamut of Ajax patterns, techniques, bells, whistles and hare-brained ideas in the industry.
DRAFT: My loss of faith in Internet Explorer
I mentioned a while back how I would post a blog on my loss of faith in Internet Explorer. I’ve been asked to elaborate, so… here’s why. This is a draft (for now) because I’m realizing that a lot of the code and other tags I’m attempting to put in haven’t been styled properly. Thus [...]
Real Clout…
Want to know what power is? Power is getting people to change their web server configurations to support your new beta experiment. Gotta tip my hat to Google… they really have clout.
It’s amazing to me… Google comes out with a Web Accelerator that basically caches the page to their server like static content, which isn’t [...]
