Like him or love him, harass him or even hate him, no matter how you feel about William Henry Gates III, better known as Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, you cannot deny the impact that he has had on the world in which we live. From the release of MS-DOS to the release of Windows [...]
Come one, come all! To the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo held this summer from August 4th to the 7th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo is the event you can’t miss if you want to gain practical knowledge and direction from over 100 sessions and programs led by top [...]
Sometime around 2005 and the release of Google Maps, Ajax became the next great thing in programming and was nearly synomous with O’Reilly’s now overused term Web 2.0. Ajax, which stands for asynchronous JavaScript and XML, allowed developers to improve a user’s experience with Internet applications by making it possible to request data from a server [...]
Mozilla wants to have their shining logo grace the legendary pages of The Guinness Books of World Records; and it shouldn’t be too hard either considering they seem to be pioneering their very own category: Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours. Had I but known that you could enter your own category, I would have [...]
I recently returned from SMXAdvanced 2008 conference in Seattle, led by the maestro of search, Danny Sullivan. As before, SMX Advanced proved to be the premier (or at least on the top) events of the SEO conference circuit, with an incredible array of search engine experts including Kevin Johnson, Matt Cutts, Will Critchlow, Ken Jurina, [...]
While I don’t find myself hopping from city to city, with commuting, contract work on weekends, and a pseudo-nomadic lifestyle, I find myself constantly on the go. Between fighting to find an Internet connection (a free, wireless one, preferrably), worrying about who’s going to try and grab my laptop from my car, and trying to keep files synched and up-to-date [...]
Heavy traffic on the street? Very irritating. Very bad. The cause of most, if not all, spontaneous outbursts of unhindered fury and temporary loss of rational capacity. Unfortunately there is nothing you can do about this bad traffic except scream at it and pound your steering wheel repeatedly with your fists until you feel a [...]
