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- Ethan Poole
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- Wed 27 Feb 2008 at 23:50
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This week Adobe has released Adobe Integrated Runtime, or AIR for short. AIR is an amazing advancement of web technology, bringing it to the desktop! Basically, it allows developers to use web technologies - HTML, JavaScript, Flash, etc. - to build applications for the desktop. AIR uses the Webkit rendering engine and allows developers to create applications that will work on both Mac OSX and Windows.
Personally, I have not had a chance to play around with AIR just yet, but I am extremely excited to see web technologies being used on the …
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- Ethan Poole
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- Mon 25 Feb 2008 at 7:48
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Here is a list of some of my favourite web development related blogs. Note that not all of these blogs pertain 100% to web development, but I find them valuable and informative in my development career.
Signal vs. Noise - General design and usability
Anne van Kesteren - Employee of Opera who has a sensible view about web standards
SitePoint blogs - General web development
Simon Willison - Web development, particularly JavaScript
StopDesign - Design
Please feel free to post any others that you like to read.…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Fri 22 Feb 2008 at 7:09
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This afternoon, I spent nearly three hours just applying for housing at the University of Minnesota, the school I will be attending next semester. It is ridiculous that it took me this long to fill out the online application. First, a major issue was that the website required Internet Explorer, so I had to snag the family laptop that has Windows; my Macs were not going to work.
I got the application filled out, but I had to print out a final form to send back to the university signed with a signature. Here is where the problem with propri…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Sat 9 Feb 2008 at 17:43
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RSS is an utter mess of standards and a spaghetti of versioning. Quite often I wonder why I myself do not switch to using Atom feeds. Even with the multiple versions of RSS, it still has managed to have remaining errors and issues which it needs to iron out. One of these kinks is the <author> tag.
At first glance, it would make perfect semantic sense for the <author> tag to contain the name or the information of the author of a particular content piece. This is true to an extent; however, the <author> tag is geared more…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Mon 4 Feb 2008 at 20:27
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Rickard Andersson just announced the release of the new PunBB 1.3 beta. PunBB is a very light-weight, fast, standards-compliant, and simple bulletin board system. Its code is simple and its markup is proper XHTML. PunBB is a fantastic bulletin board system without the unnecessary bloat of other bulletin board systems.
PunBB 1.3 brings a lot of much-needed improvements to PunBB, primarily the introduction of the extension system, which allows developers to create organised modifications based on a hook system. I am excited to see how succ…
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