The 3 practical reasons I use linux – the $200-400 i don’t have to give to Microsoft are used to get better hardware, more secure without blaming the user, all the Free software available for it (see the first reason again), and not HAVING to reinstall the OS quarterly. In case that doesn’t convince you, […]
He starts by saying that "Those are the players MLS needs to keep or go out and get, the players who might be great stars one day, but right now are simply solid role players who increase the team competence on the field." No one can argue with that statement, clearly any sports league needs
Its not wise to tease your Human Resources manager, you might get a response like the following. (02:04:21 PM) HR: i could beat you at any given moment today (02:04:38 PM) Oscar: that’s going on my blog (02:04:45 PM) HR: lol
Saw today that Google Maps now has a Traffic layer, which color codes congestion around 30 major cities, Washington DC included. If you zoom in close enough, you’ll also now see markers for Metro stations. HT: Gizmondo and Google Blog.
Word from the MLS Underground is that DC United will announce Marco Antonio Etcheverry’s new role with the club before tonights game. It’s pretty easy to guess that he’ll be taking over the youth development position now that Harkes is at Red Bull NY. Wouldn’t it be nice if he were helping Soehn and Staff
Someone does Government 2.0 style – OpenCongress is live, complete with "Beta" sunsplash thingy and a few gray gradients. This, along with The Open House Project, seem to be built on top of the data provided by govtrack.us. Will it make a difference? Will you use it to track any issue, industries, or your local
What are some strategies for keeping track of comments you leave on other people’s blogs? Knowing when someone replies to an interesting comment encourages discussion and participation. Some feeds provide comment feeds, for the site as a whole or for individual posts, but before long you might end up with dozens of feeds in your
Roger Johansson’s post from 2005 is still as true today as it was then: A web professional can never stop learning. Here it’s 2007 and we’re still dealing with designs that look best in photoshop, and my personal pet peeve – images for text headers (is there anything less useful?). Web professionals who refuse to
You might think that apple is poking fun at windows in this latest Mac advertisement, but you’d be fooling yourself. But judging by the comments in Very Severe Hole" in Vista UAC Design, its really a documentary, not an ad. What’s the giant security hole – oh yeah – any installer automatically runs with administrator
I’ve been using Subversion heavily lately to keep my live and development sites synchronized and its been a huge productivity booster. I had to move some code over to a lite site for work this evening and it was such a pain, because I had to go through and figure out the files I needed