I was talking to Roy Leban the other day about how a particular domain registrar of his makes it check-box trivial to redirect from a naked domain (say example.com) to www.example.com, but doesn’t do anything whatsoever to redirect from example.com/someurl to www.example.com/someurl. I was teasing him about needing to get a real domain registrar, but [...]
It’s a pain in the butt to ship a web app that works in all of the relevant web browsers today. It seems that crafting stylesheets that works in all of them at once requires as much specialized knowledge today as writing a compiler did a decade ago. As the rate that browser vendors are [...]
Hey, everybody. Been too busy between new kid, move to California, lots of fun work with Cooliris, move back to Seattle, and getting our house cleaned up to make time to get any blogging done. Well, I’m motivated to change that. I’ll have something interesting up by July 1. If not, please hassle me.
Microsoft is a really old company as tech companies go, and they’re on the third revision of their logo. Much earlier, the logo had a crazy capital-O that was, for some reason, called “the blibbet”. I scored a $7 clearance t-shirt that has the old Microsoft logo on it, complete with blibbet. The 1s and [...]
March 18, 2009 – 12:30 pm
I’ve mentioned before that one thing that moderates my natural inclination to go gaga over cloud-based hosting for web applications is that there is, so far, no clean way exists to switch providers. Both Google and Amazon[1] argue that there are theoretical ways to abandon them for a competitor today, but for most business decision [...]
My Portland-area friends at Shizzow just got written up on ProgrammableWeb. They’ve just completed their big public launch, and will be lurking about at SXSW. If you’re going to be there, look up their whereabouts on their app, wander by, and say hello.
Curtis Chen of Team Snout has posted his recordings of the talks given at Game Control Summit 2009.
Pi aren’t square, they’re awesome! Better than awesome—pimp, even! You can get this yourself an instance of this t-shirt and many other hilarious shirts from T-Shirt Hell. (WARNING: If you’re easily offended, you seriously don’t even want to look—they’re as irreverent as it gets.) There are not many of their shirts that I, personally, would [...]
A colleague of mine mentioned a post by a UC Berkeley professor, Raymond Yee where he illustrates for students of his Mixing and Remixing Information course how he brainstorms and develops ideas for his mash-up projects. It’s interesting to me that his post covers two topics that I’ve spent time talking about here: Freebase and [...]
Group scheduling tool Doodle.com has announced an app design competition for applications built on their API. The winner gets a week in Zurich.