March 2008
Wow! Vince I have to give you and the entire New Atlanta Team a big high five, raise my glass, slap on the butt, or whatever your favorite congratulatory “thing” may be. With this blog... Read More
There is no denying that Ruby on Rails is creating some noise amongst the web development circles – you have read the blogs, and maybe bought the t-shirt, but did you know that Ruby as a... Read More
Writing about anything involving Microsoft or Internet Explorer here at SitePoint tends to stir up a bit of a hornets nest. With good reason—even I, Microsoft Shill that I am, cannot claim that... Read More
Sorry for the belated post—I got a bit tied up with, well, MIX and couldn’t even start pulling this together until I hopped on the plane. Anyhow, I survived TAO and the horrible dryness of the... Read More
Two of my previous posts have raised a few issues that I find very interesting and lead to some more un-answered questions. One comment in particular is what got me thinking. What happens when... Read More
After my recent post about Ask.com’s recent layoffs and change in strategic direction, I had an interesting chat to Nicholas Graham, spokesperson for Ask.com. Graham clarified a few details... Read More
This is a bit of a follow-on to the feedback from the initial IE8-is-here post. First, on ACID2, see this post from the IE team. If you aren’t in the clicking mood, the short answer is that you... Read More
In a world in which visitors expect to receive everything for free, does subscription-based content stand a change? If your content is quality, then the answer is yes! In this article, Brock shares... Read More
Whilst out surfing the big WWW I came across Laurence Willmott project page about how people really tell the time. When asked the time, we generally don’t need to be military accurate with our... Read More
MIX 08 kicked off this morning with a multi-headed keynote that had loads of “wow” factor. Far and away the biggest takeaway: Microsoft is very serious about connected systems and open standards.... Read More
SearchEngineLand’s Barry Schwartz has a good writeup on the news that Ask.com has fired 8% of its staff, and is planning on changing the strategy behind its search engine, to instead focus on... Read More
Our Nintendo Wii/Guitar Hero III giveaway ends in only three days, so if you haven’t taken the SitePoint Reader Survey yet then you better hop to it. Thousands of readers are in the running to... Read More
I’ll post some reactions to the (ongoing) MIX keynote, but I did happen to find the download links for the IE 8 beta. Get it while it’s hot. Oh, and grab the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 while... Read More
Morning update: nothing much to report other than the blog zone is a really awesome idea. Free booze with 360s is very, very nice. Why did they have to make the Maker’s Mark so pure? That and, if... Read More
