With IE’s market share continuing its decline, Microsoft is working overtime to catch up to the current generation of browsers. If everything Microsoft showed with IE9 at their Professional Developers Conference comes to
From Slashdot, in the making-IE-suck-less department, there’s a project up on Google Code called svgweb that will add SVG support to browsers that don’t have it baked in. Which is the long hand way of saying it fixes Int
And now, ladies and gentlemen, a rant on rebooting. Paul Ramsey’s blog Clever Elephant had a great post recently titled No One Ever Got Fired for Buying Linux. This particular bit stuck in my head: Did you buy an expensi
PGCon - the PostgreSQL Conference - wrapped up in May, and they’ve posted many of their session online for free, including slide shows and videos. The links are in the notes for each session/tutorial. The videos are host
A couple of major announcements from the big web mapping API folks came out recently. First, Google has launched a Maps Data API, which is what it sounds like - you can store map data in the cloud and retrieve it. Now y
I’m not sure how the phrase goes exactly, but it includes the words “necessity”, “invention”, and “mother”. To say that my employer’s Internet connectivity can be spotty is a bit of an understatement. Besides frequent sl
ESRI has released a beta (1.0) version of its ArcGIS Silverlight API. It’s available for download now and supports both Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express. Silverlight is Microsoft’s Flash competitor. As much
In the it’s-almost-here department, Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s ubiquitous crashware slug of a browser, is getting read to push out a new release. And despite my uncharitable description, I’m pretty hyped about it. It
I’ve got a collection of things I’ve bookmarked that I thought were interesting, but none of them together were interesting enough for a blog post. Going under the belief that a great many mediocre stories = one good sto
In the epic-fail department, people sporting the Microsoft Zune on December 31st were dismayed to find their portable entertainment system had gone belly up. Apparently the little-iPod’s-that-couldn’t spontaneously reboo