What is it? It’s a whatsit
For one of my web developer projects, I’ve tasked myself with building a homepage similar to Google’s Personalized Home Page, now called iGoogle. I thought it would be great to provide various modules...
View ArticleHarvest the code
I thought I would throw a few marbles around about my current personal coding project. It is an object oriented content management system written in PHP. In one of my other jobs, I’ve written something...
View ArticleOctave from the web
For one of my classes, I’ve been playing around with GNU Octave. Octave is a free and open source program very similar to Matlab. From the Octave web site: GNU Octave is a high-level language,...
View ArticleSQLite Manager that rocks
As a web developer, I’m always on the lookout for tools that help me develop great web apps. Today I found a tool to help manage an SQLite database. It is developed as a Firefox add-on, and it is...
View ArticleMy blog post found in JBoss Richfaces source
Today I discovered that a link to a post on my blog is included in the source to JBoss Richfaces. The blog post that was referenced was a small note I made about bug in the Safari web browser. They...
View ArticleAvago’s site search
I work at HP in Fort Collins, Colorado, which shares its campus with Avago Technologies. I was curious to see what sort of products my neighbors were working on, so I checked out there website. One...
View ArticleWanted: better templating language
I need a better templating language, one where an included (called) template can change its containing (caller) template. For example, consider this container template: <html> <head>...
View ArticleAdobe Error
Today, Adobe announced a new product: Adobe Air. The basic concept of this is that you can compile a web application that you’ve developed to be a run-time on a users system. Adobe accomplishes this...
View ArticleDid Google just change the world again?
While Google is perhaps one of the most innovative web development companies out there, sometimes I am slightly disappointed because they fail to meet my exceedingly high expectations. Google has...
View ArticleFull circle Javascript
When I first started learning Javascript, in the Netscape Navigator version 3 days, all the programming for a page was done in the web browser. Javascript could read the query parameters to a page and...
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