CNET News.com had an interesting article about Web 2.0 in enterprise. The corporate world has been slow to adopt technology such as blogs and AJAX, but it finally seeing the importance of using Web 2.0 in their businesses. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft has released the second public beta of its Internet Explorer web browser. They say its more stable than first public beta. Information Week has an in depth review of Microsoft’s web browser. Read the rest of this entry »
There is a fun little demo of CSS animation using hovers on CSS Play. It’s a pretty simple example but it’s definitely pretty clever. He says it’s the first CSS animation that he knows of and I can’t recall any that I remember so maybe he’s right. In any case maybe it will invoke some inspiration in your designs. Read the rest of this entry »
CNET News.com had an interesting article regarding high definition television signals. There are high costs in equipment on the consumer and high costs for TV broadcasters. Televisions are expensive for consumers and HD quality cameras are expensive for the broadcasters. Read the rest of this entry »
For those of you with iPods with the Dock Connection, there’s a cool little gadget worth looking into called the Pocket Dock Combo. What this little thing is is an adapter for your iPod with Dock connection to use any standard USB or Firewire cable. Previous generation Pocket Dock’s only allow a USB connection or a Firewire connection. This is a convenient for those of you that like to transfer data to and from multiple computers. It comes in handy because most people with have a USB cable already connected to their computer. Read the rest of this entry »
I have been following Darren Rowse’s blog ProBlogger for a few months now. I guess you could say he gave me some inspiration into moving into the whole blog format and for the most part I’m glad I did. It’s a great way to get my views out and an easy way to keep my sites updated. In his post, the Cost of Comment Spam he mentioned that he has seen some people give up on preventing spam in their comment posts. Read the rest of this entry »
A couple of days ago the NY Times had an article about MySpace’s approach to big profit. The domain name MySpace.com was purchased in 2002 by Chris DeWolfe. The site originally was used to sell a motor skooter. DeWolfe had experience in online marketing such as e-mail blasts and pop-up advertising. MySpace took a different approach. Read the rest of this entry »
For those of you with high traffic sites or would like to add some redundancy to your MySQL database, clustering is a very good starting point. That is assuming that you have about 4 or 5 machines that you can spare. Howto Forge has a great tutorial on setting this up on 4 machines using MySQL 5 Cluster. The setup requires two storage nodes and one management node and two nodes for load balancing. The example utilizes 4 machines by loading the cluster management server onto one of the load balancing machines. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple updated its website today to include its new 17-inch MacBook Pro. It has very similar specs as the 15-inch Mac Book Pro, but adds the top end 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo Processor as a standard option as well as Firewire 800 and an 8x Superdrive. Other features include 1GB of RAM expandable to 2GB, built-in iSight Camera, MagSafe Power Adapter, 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1600, Firewire 400, Bluetooth, and Airport Extreme all for the starting price of $2799. Read the rest of this entry »
Anyone who has been following web technology the last couple of years has had to have heard or used the term AJAX that stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Jesse James Garrett coined the term in 2005, but the technology has been around long before that. AJAX has been so popular that there have been conventions and trade shows focused around the topic. Read the rest of this entry »
