The EFF is holding a “Blog for Freedom” Blog-a-thon where participants are supposed to blog about their personal experiences fighting for freedom online. Since I have no personal experience with fighting for freedom online (other than joining the EFF), I decided to finish up this Introduction to Copyfighting that I started a while back and […]
I can’t really take the high road when it comes to defensive HTML form flexibility. I distinctly remember trying to convince our designer at my last job that trimming extra spaces at the end of a URL wasn’t necessary because the user wouldn’t have typed them if they didn’t actually want them there.
Sometimes, though, it […]
A reader from Omaha, NE writes:
Dear Klep,
What are your thoughts on this whole Ajax phenomenon in webapp development?
That’s a great question. It’s almost like I wanted to answer that question and fabricated the query just to set up the situation.
Ajax is a term that describes an idea. In tech, we don’t get many terms […]
With my wife out of town for work, I decided to attend SuperHappyDevHouse 2, an all-night gathering of elite coders, their laptops, and about a dozen power strips. The idea is terrific — get people together to work on whatever they want. Maybe some joint projects will come about, maybe some sites will be launched, […]
Yesterday I bought a new video card for my “I hate my new TiVo and want to build my own” project. Unfortunately, it only had S-Video out and my TV only has RCA and Coax in. So I headed to my friendly neighborhood Radio Shack for an RF Modulator.
It turns out, a modern day […]
