August 2004
It sure would be great to go just one month without having to rant about the lousy service your colleagues (and perhaps YOU) provide, but frankly this seems unlikely. I now have three web... Read More
Building forms can be repetitive work. Speed up the process with Chris's Counter Widget script, which uses JavaScript and HTML to allow easy user entry of values that can then be validated on the... Read More
BlogWave is a great product written in C# that grabs a variety of information resources and publishes them as an RSS feed. You can even write your own “adapters” so BlogWave can... Read More
I want to go off on a tangent here and break away from the ColdFusion related talk which you normally see here. I’m curious as to what you see are the major hurdles for your web development... Read More
Here is a link to a newly posted technote about overcoming the firewall in XP (which is turned on by default) when you install XP Service Pack 2. Looks like there are a few things to... Read More
Microsoft have launched the SQL Server 2005 home pages at microsoft.com. Check out the “Top 30 Features” page to get ready for the future :) GA_googleFillSlot("Edit_300x100_C");... Read More
I’ve added an enhancement to the Dynamic Skewer Panel that was mentioned via this blog yesterday, to include some simple isometric checkboxes to make commonly used skews available at the click... Read More
Rob Kasunic, principal legal advisor to the US Copyright Office was very generous in giving some time (http://www.sitepoint.com/article/interview-copyright-internet) to me to discuss how copyright is... Read More
The Internet has taken intellectual property and copyright law and turned it on its head. Blane talks with principal legal advisor to the US Copyright Office, Rob Kasunic, about the role of... Read More
Would you rather have a fast nickel or a slow dime? (Non-US readers: Nickel = $.05. Dime = $.10). That’s the question a successful real estate investor asks when he decides whether to accept a... Read More
This has been the buzz over the last few weeks as Sun mulls around on just how to take Java to the next step. Rather than rehashing what most of us have read elsewhere — I went to a seasoned... Read More
Off the heels of the Dynamic Scaler Panel for Flash MX 2004 , is another panel, this time controlling the skewing of an MC. This panel simply gives you fine granular control over the vertical and... Read More
Working with Paths and the Pen Tool Becoming comfortable with the Pen Tool often takes a while for vector graphic newbies. Unlike pencil-and-paper doodling (or comparatively, using a pencil- or... Read More
Today I’m taking a short break from my overview of Photoshop blending modes — but for good reason! SitePoint just published my article on Creating Vector Graphics in Illustrator and... Read More
