Jan
18
My Opinion of Accessibility is Changing
January 18, 2008 | 2 Comments
Because I want applications to be accessible myself…
I have always been aware that accessibility is important for subsets of users and when developing if it was convenient I would follow some of the guidelines for accessibility within sites/applications that I was working on. However, if when the crunch hit at the top of my list […]
Nov
13
How to handle downtime
November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I follow 37 Signals fairly closely. I agree with them in many areas of development and they do a fantastic job of what they do. I have red their book Getting Real and I follow several of their blogs.
Yesterday they experienced some downtime, its was late here when it occurred so I wasn’t even online, […]
Oct
15
Never let a programmer fix your laptop power brick
October 15, 2007 | 1 Comment
True story. The power cord on my Gateway M275 stopped working last night. Laptop works but wasn’t charging. Unsure which component was the culprit I took it to the office today to hook it up to a Volt Meter - one of the guys at the office has one - and asked for […]
Oct
3
10 Reasons Why Making .Net Source Code Available is Great for .Net Developers
October 3, 2007 | 1 Comment
Today Microsoft announced that they will be releasing the source code for .net. Listed below are my top 10, my current opinions, of why this is a great move and should improve my own and most other’s development experiences:
1. Can you say debugging
When Scott Gu announced on his blog today that Microsoft […]
Sep
14
Windows Live Writer for Wordpress
September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I was looking into an offline editing tool for Wordpress as I find writing in the online editor isn’t productive for me and have traveled at fair bit recently it made sense to look into a solid offline solution. The industry standard in this space for WP seems to be Blogjet so I was […]
