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• Refocus on functionality and usability

  November 27th, 2005 at 10:31pm | No Comments

  Few would debate that Ajax is a major advancement in web development. One that has the potential to take even more applications off the desktop and into the browser. However, with this exciting new approach to web development, it is even more important than ever to refocus on the functionality and usability. Even with special ... read more »

  Tags: AJAX • software • tips • web-development

• Performance problems with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

  November 26th, 2005 at 6:41pm | 3 Comments

  I was having some huge performance problems playing Call of Duty 2 and Age of Empires III with my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. I downloaded the latest drivers, had the latest version of DirectX, and had everything turned off on my machine (Virus Scan, Datakeeper, etc). Not only was it bad performance, but often the ... read more »

  Tags: hardware • software

• TreeView 2.0 Released

  November 21st, 2005 at 8:56pm | 4 Comments

  Click here for the demo. About a week ago I released version 2.0 of TreeView, a PHP class for adding expandable tree controls to web applications. This is actually a big milestone toward my goal of building Ajax support. The major new features in TreeView 2.0 are: Client-side mode I coded the Javascript to animate ... read more »

  Tags: AJAX • dhtml • software • web-development

• Learning Ajax from the bottom up

  November 21st, 2005 at 12:11pm | 1 Comment

  I remember a co-worker playing around with DHTML four years ago while I was working at SmartForce (now SkillSoft). It was pretty cool, but since there were severe cross-browser problems and few functional uses for it, I felt there were more important things to learn. But all that has now changed with the relatively recent ... read more »

  Tags: AJAX • dhtml • learning • web-development

• w.bloggar – a simple and free desktop blog publisher for Windows

  November 10th, 2005 at 11:36pm | 6 Comments

  I’ve finally grown too frustrated writting blog posts within WordPress. As with most browser-based editing, there is just a huge lack of editing features. With w.bloggar you get syntax highlighting, instant preview, find and replace, spell checking, and my favorite, file and image uploads. You can post to many blogging platforms including Blogger.com and WordPress. ... read more »

  Tags: blogging • software • Wordpress

• Adsense gives me the boot

  November 10th, 2005 at 3:44pm | No Comments

  After about 4 months of generating legitimate leads for Google Adsense, they kicked me out of the program stating “invalid clicks have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s)” [1]. I am guessing that this happened because I added a Google search bar to Spydar Redirection Service accounts in an attempt to help ... read more »

  Tags: advertising • blogging • web-development