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It’s Giftmas time again
December 19th, 2005 at 9:27pm | No CommentsWell, it’s that time of year again. The time of year when Yukon Cornelius is gracing the CBC with his powerful presence. The time when read more »
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All the nation for popcorn and beer
December 13th, 2005 at 2:27pm | No CommentsWell, election time is back and the news is saturated with political platforms once again. And already we have our first flagrant tongue slip of the campaign, by the PM’s director of communications no less. If you haven’t already heard, Mr. Scott Reid was quoted commenting on the Conservative plan to give child care money ... read more »
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Creative can go to hell
December 4th, 2005 at 6:49am | 2 CommentsI’m still getting my computer back to the way it was, having formatted about a week ago as per my annual cleansing. Well, actually I broke Windows XP by attempting to install SP2 and had to install a fresh copy. In any case, formatting went fine and everything was installing fine until it came to ... read more »
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Na na na nana na na na nana CATMAN!
December 2nd, 2005 at 12:41pm | 1 CommentI was walking down Granville to the Skytrain after work the other day and this regular guy had two black cats sitting on his back as he was walking down the street. And I don’t mean strapped in or anything, just sitting on top of his backpack and on his shoulder. I have never seen ... read more »
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Refocus on functionality and usability
November 27th, 2005 at 10:31pm | No CommentsFew 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 »
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Performance problems with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
November 26th, 2005 at 6:41pm | 3 CommentsI 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 »
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TreeView 2.0 Released
November 21st, 2005 at 8:56pm | 4 CommentsClick 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 »
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Learning Ajax from the bottom up
November 21st, 2005 at 12:11pm | 1 CommentI 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 »
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w.bloggar – a simple and free desktop blog publisher for Windows
November 10th, 2005 at 11:36pm | 6 CommentsI’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 »
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Adsense gives me the boot
November 10th, 2005 at 3:44pm | No CommentsAfter 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 »