JavaScript and AJAX are gaining wide-spread audience, and lots of creative applications are emerging from this set of client-side technologies. For instance, checkout this cool SQL Designer [http://ondras.praha12.net/sql/] totally written in DHTML/JavaScript. It has plenty of expert features including schema import & export.…
I’ve been working on an ASP.NET project which requires quite a bit of client interactivity, so I’m leaning towards AJAX, and its turning out quite well so far. During the course of research I stumpled upon this neat collection of design patterns and frameworks for AJAX [http:…
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will receive a $1 annual salary for 2007. Yahoo! chairman and CEO Terry Semel is also getting paid an annual salary of just $1, as is Apple CEO Steve Jobs. CNN money reports [http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/…
The 1913 Webster defines “cheating” [http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=cheating] as: > To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. However, it’s certainly not cheating if you get a really good bargain. Such as the one being offered…
The real story for 2007 will be the continued migration to open, accessible data formats. 2007 is already shaping up to be the most exciting year since the community drove off the XML highway into the Web services swamp half a decade ago. XQuery, Atom, Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), XProc,…
Stumbled upon this great library of database models/schemas [http://www.databaseanswers.org/data%5Fmodels/] (searchable [http://www.barryw.org/dba/pi_data_model_search/index.asp]) for a vast number of business scenarios from auction web site to asset management to search engines.…
Just a quick roundup of OpenID [http://openid.net/], which I’m sure will have wide-spread acceptance and usage in the user management space for both web-based as well as software applications. OpenID [http://openid.net/] is a decentralized system to verify one’s online identity. On OpenID-enabled sites, Internet…
Update: I have released the PHP source code for the PayPal donation FeedFlare I wrote. Please feel free to use it (edit as needed, and host on your server). You can find the source code at the end of this blog post. FeedBurner [http://www.feedburner.com/], the processor for…