First things first: I was at WordCamp Kansas City this weekend where I listened to several very good presentations, and gave two presentations myself. I was generally very pleased with the developer track, which was where I lived. Without a doubt the worst presentation in the developer track all weekend was mine on widgets. Not [...]
My family has spent a couple of evenings now with our Chrome OS notebook (CR-48), so it’s probably time to give some first impressions.
My first impressions about the CR-48 Chrome Notebook from Google.
A quick examination of the acronym FUD and what it means to you.
An open letter to Canon and other hardware manufacturers about getting their Linux drivers done for free.
I would like to see Pandora integrated with a lyrics engine. Most people are probably going to think of some link in the user interface where they can click it and see the lyrics for the song. Not me. I want something much bigger. I want the ability to exclude a song based on a [...]
I don’t personally know many people who are bigger fans or proponents of KDE than I am. I think it’s fantastic. I love just about everything about it. Except KDE 4. It’s just not that exciting to me. The new features aren’t that important to me and as a whole the desktop performs rather pitifully [...]
If you’re wondering what far future expiration is then odds are you haven’t spent much time looking into web delivery best practices. Take a moment and read up. I promise it won’t hurt and it will probably do you a lot of good. We’ll use this blog as an example. It has a total of [...]
We’ve all read the comments and seen the posts. “Open Source software isn’t secure.” While that may be true, I’d like to revise that statement by removing two words: “Software isn’t secure.” The licensing model of a piece of software will have almost no effect on the quality of that software in the early stages. [...]
I have a serious question for the 10% of you who visit this site and are still running IE 6. I’m not trying to mock anyone, nor pass judgment. I’m simply curious. Why are you still using IE 6? I get that about half of you seem to be running Windows 2000, so IE 7 [...]