I’m a fan of jQuery because it promotes unobtrusive markup and functionality and has a wealth of plugins to take care of common web development/ajax functionality. Marc Grabanski offers some tips for working with it effectively. I’ll need to look at livequery in some apps I’ve put together. If you need to attach events to […]
I stumbled on this post over at the flickr developers blog while chatting with Jo about web applications designed and built for “the cloud”. An article earlier this week piqued my curiosity about message queues, and got me thinking about how they can be used to move processing tasks out of the way. I’d known
If McCain has won, We could have had a VP that made Dan Quayle look like a Rhodes Scholar. I don’t want to be jumping on the “America you did the right thing” bandwagon, since all we did was vote for a president, but I’m soooo relieved Palin is nowhere near the White House. I
I’ve been using rsync.net to have nightly offsite back ups for configuration files, database snapshots, and web sites on this server. They provide a great service that works really well and helps me sleep a little better at night. If you need a backup service, I’d recommend you give them a serious look, especially after
My last attempt to edit video in Linux, sent me back to iMovie on my Mac and Magix Movie Editor in wondows. It might be time to revisit video editors in Linux.Open Movie Editor: Linux Video Editor with Plot Twists | OStatic In general, Linux video editors, admittedly, aren’t where Mac video editors are presently.
Go read Christopher Buckley’s explanation of his NR resigation – its a fascinating look at how one conservative thinks of the “modern conservative movement.” The latter now apparently means, think as we tell you to think, and disloyalty must not be tolerated. A lot of people are realizing that the current Republican leadereship, with its
Good to see someone is finally asking their users to upgrade to IE6. I hope more websites start ignoring support for IE6 soon, since its such a headache to cater to. Of course, each will have to make its own cost-benefit decision, but we’re pretty close to the point that for most sites, supporting IE6
Seems it probably won’t work so good. Glad to see Bolivia bucking the trend here. Seems like privatizing, oops, I mean purchasing shares in a bank is more effective. RGE – Nouriel Roubini’s Global EconoMonitor But government purchase of bad assets was the exception rather than the rule. It was used only in Mexico, Japan,
Market forces could be used to clean up power plants in China by encouraging the use of cleaner burning coas. We need China to clean up its power sector if we want to make a real dent in global Carbon emissions. On CARMA, you can see the best publicly available data on the Chinese power
If you’re trying to figure out why we’re in the financial mess we are in, I highly recommend reading the report linked below. From what I can gather, its a systemic failure, and one cause came from relaxing lending standards. While it helped many people who couldn’t afford a home afford one, a lot of
Unintended consequences of relaxing lending standards… Read More »