July 2006
Here is an interesting observation: Many times, prospects call me and ask me if my programs do X or Y (i.e., in the case of my Boxing Fitness site, do I provide Continuing Education Units? Or, is my... Read More
This week, Kevin Yank is reporting from OSCON 2006 in Portland, OR. David Recordon (Six Apart, then Verisign) and Brian Ellin (JanRain) have had their fingers in OpenID since its inception. OpenID is... Read More
This week, Kevin Yank is reporting from OSCON 2006 in Portland, OR. Gavin Doughtie has done stints in games development for Sony, web development for idealab, and software development for Picasa, but... Read More
This week, Kevin Yank is reporting from OSCON 2006 in Portland, OR. Developed by the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF), Cosmo is a service enabling its users to put their personal... Read More
This week, Kevin Yank is reporting from OSCON 2006 in Portland, OR. After a from-scratch introduction to AJAX, Christian Wenz gave a demo-heavy talk (my favourite kind!) showing off many of the... Read More
This week, Kevin Yank is reporting from OSCON 2006 in Portland, OR. Avi Bryant has the dubious distinction of being one of the few web geeks with an avid interest in Smalltalk, and has created a web... Read More
This week, Kevin Yank is reporting from OSCON 2006 in Portland, OR. John Coggeshall is a respected name in the PHP world, and works as a technical consultant for Zend, and provided a fast-paced... Read More
This week, Kevin Yank is reporting from OSCON 2006 in Portland, OR. PHP’s creator, Rasmus Lerdorf, gave a surprising talk on building PHP rich web applications using PHP5—suprising,... Read More
This week, Kevin Yank is reporting from OSCON 2006 in Portland, OR. Paralyzed by indecision (at any given time at OSCON, there are literally three different sessions I would consider... Read More
Considering the “big four” dynamic, procedural languages; Perl, Python, PHP and Ruby, to an extent they’re much of a muchness, offering only small variations on the same theme... Read More
This week, Kevin Yank is reporting from OSCON 2006 in Portland, OR. Kevin Henrikson of Zimbra gave a brisk presentation covering some of the lessons his organization has learned and the “dirty... Read More
The 2006 Create: Awards are on again, run by Desktop Magazine. From the awards site: Who’s the best Australian designer in 2006? Find out at the Desktop Create: Street Party, graphic design’s... Read More
Unfortunately, today became a very sad day in the .NET world. Kevin Downs, the brains and the brawn behind the very useful NDoc project, is giving up on the... Read More
This week, Kevin Yank is reporting from OSCON 2006 in Portland, OR. Lead developer Jacob Kaplan-Moss bills Django as a competitor to Ruby on Rails. Django is a web development framework that was born... Read More
