Posts Tagged ‘internet’
Folder Tree With Drag and Drop Capabilities
July 14th, 2006
DHTML Goodies has a post on their site including code for a folder tree with drag and drop capabilities. It is actually a pretty creative script and works very well. It also has a demo and tutorial to implement it into your own site.
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Firefox Usage Continues To Increase – IE Down Again
July 13th, 2006
ZDNet had a blog post regarding browser usage recently. The numbers are clear that Firefox is continuing to gain market share over Internet Explorer. Worldwide 13% is a pretty good amount considering the age of the browser and showing more usage in the US at 16% is promising.
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15 Things You Can Do With Yahoo! UI
July 12th, 2006
The Vitamin has a post on 15 things you can do with the Yahoo! UI. I have to admit, Yahoo did a pretty good job of creating the library. A lot of the features are pretty slick and can help us developers when we are creating Web 2.0 applications. I used to be opposed to using others components and felt more comfortable using my own widgets that I created. I have learned to use my own as well as some of the other elements that others have created and it has helped increase my efficiency tremendously.
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Mr. Firefox Looks To The Future
July 11th, 2006
Seattle PI has an interview on their Software Notebook with 21-year-old Blake Ross, the founder of Firefox. He makes some really good points throughout the interview a few of which I will discuss and give my opinion on in this post. For those of you that don’t know, Ross launched the Mozilla Firefox project in 2002 with fellow software developer Dave Hyatt. While I’m only 23 myself its good to see how people close to my age are making an impact in the industry. Of course Ross’s resume is much better than mine, but I can still relate to a lot of the points he makes in the interview.
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A Search Engine That’s Becoming An Inventor
July 11th, 2006
The New York Times had a great article on Google over the break. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google had built their computers and developed software that was more efficient than anything in the market at that time. They had done this to save money.
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Scalable AJAX
July 10th, 2006
There was an article on James McParlane’s blog last week regarding AJAX and its load on servers. If AJAX is done correctly it can easily reduce file size transfers reducing the amount of bandwidth needed to run the web application. The opposite is true as well in that if a developer creates a poorly executed AJAX application the could bring a server down to its knees.
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Open You Wallet To Google
July 3rd, 2006
Google has released its own internet payment system called Google Checkout. It should compete head to head with PayPal and allow you to keep multiple credit cards in your Google account as well as a single place to track your orders.
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Top 10 Web 2.0 Designs According to Cameron Olthuis
June 30th, 2006
Cameron Olthuis has a post on his blog regarding his top picks for Web 2.0 designs. It made digg.com and it’s a pretty legitimate post. Since I’ve worked in this industry I’ve seen a difference in traditional design compared to Web 2.0. For my Top 10 I can’t say it would be the same as his. There are so many different sites coming out everyday that some people are exposed to some and some people exposed to others.
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Corporate America Wakes Up To Web 2.0
June 30th, 2006
Blogs and wikis have gotten people used to user generated content management systems according to an article on CNET News.com. Unlike old content management systems, the Web 2.0 style applications have made it easier for people to use. This will make a big impact on corporations adopting Web 2.0 into their businesses.
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Who Will Out-Search Google?
June 28th, 2006
Apple Matters had an article about Google and is competitors and its forthcoming competitors. Google is the leading search engine by far, but that never means that another engine can’t come out and out perform the engine. As stated in the article, Google isn’t perfect and it will never be perfect. In fact, no service for that matter will ever be perfect.
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About Me
Brandon Quintana has been actively involved in web development for the past 12 years. Proficient web programming languages include XHTML/CSS, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.
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