AJAX: Web “shift” or business as usual? | News.blog | CNET News.com
Mike Ricciuti, executive editor for c|net raises the question about the hype over AJAX. Is it simply another buzzword created as “a way for some vendors to sell more products without doing anything new”, as Dare Obasanjo, a developer at Microsoft puts it?
I [...]
VoIP fee decision expected Tuesday | CNET News.com
This could be good or bad news depending on the outcome…
In a move that has been closely watched by the voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, industry, Level 3 Communications has argued that it should be able to pay lower fees to local telephone companies to begin and [...]
Symantec: Mozilla-based browsers increasingly targeted by hackers - Computerworld
This was expected. As Mozilla/Firefox become more popular, it’s vulnerabilities will be exploited more. All software is writen by humans. Humans are not perfect. Is there such a thing as perfect software? That being said, Firefox still has fewer known vulnerabilities than [...]
FlickrBlog · c|net News.com article
Flickr, a wonderful photo-sharing community website was recently purchased by Yahoo. What does this mean?
Flickr will be continuing on the path it’s on — to Flickr 1.0 and beyond. We’ll be working with a bunch of people that Totally Get Flickr and want to preserve the community and the flavor [...]
Mike West :: XMLHttpRequest Object Wrapper
I haven’t had time to try it out yet, but Mike West has posted a wrapper for the XMLHttpRequest object (it’s that javascript object that makes Ajax possible). From his site:
A JavaScript wrapper for the XMLHttpRequest object that enables the trivial implimentation of dynamic interfaces without the painful necessity [...]
Corporate RSS - Applied: Corporate RSS Made Simple
Funny how I was just thinking the same thing…
Coding Horror: Because IE6 is the new Netscape 4.7x
Interesting read: Jeff Atwood points out that what developers are saying now about IE 6 are the same types of things they said about Netscape 4.7x. If IE 7 is to be the savior browser for Microsoft, it had better fix the problems (which including full [...]
XMLHttpRequest & Ajax Working Examples - Links and Resources, Fiftyfoureleven.com
Found a great resource for working examples of Ajax.
Tanya and I finally went out and got some furniture. We took advantage of the Marshall Fields Field Days sale and got some great stuff; a leather love-seat with matching chair and a bedroom set including bed, night-stand, dresser, and mirror. Almost done! *phew* Now all we need is a bigger dining [...]
PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column
These are heady days for Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone services. From Vonage to Packet8 to Skype and a hundred more besides, several million people around the world are enjoying really cheap phone calls that are carried primarily over the Internet. But that fun may be diminishing soon…