December 2006

Daily del.icio.us for Dec 21, 2006

December 21, 2006

Web 2.0 how-to design style guide The list below is a summary of many of the common features of typical “Web 2.0″ sites. (tags: design development howto web reference web2.0)

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 17, 2006

December 17, 2006

Beauty in Design – Free Series! – MooTools for the Rest of Us (via Ajaxian.com) “MooTools for the Rest of Us” is a series of tutorials that demonstrates, by example, implementation of basic MooTools effects into a template. (tags: Javascript mootools tutorial ajax framework Web2.0 joomla moo.fx development effects)

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 16, 2006

December 16, 2006

dev2dev: Exploring Ajax Runtime Offerings This article attempts to sort through these frameworks and map some of the characteristics by which they can be compared. The hope is that the reader will come away with some tools to use for breaking down the collection of Ajax offerings in ways that mak (tags: ajax architecture web2.0 [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 14, 2006

December 14, 2006

Google Web Toolkit – Making GWT Better Today is quite a milestone for Google Web Toolkit: with the GWT 1.3 Release Candidate, our team is very happy to announce that all of GWT is open source under the Apache 2.0 license (tags: GWT ajax programming google toolkit webdev software foss)

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 12, 2006

December 12, 2006

Joel on Software – Simplicity Success is a result of a combination of things: building an audience, evangelism, clean and spare design, emotional appeal, aesthetics, fast response time, direct and instant user feedback, program models which correspond to the user model resulting in hi (tags: design simplicity software usability JoelOnSoftware programming 37Signals entrepreneurship features commentary)

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New Theme for this blog: NigaRila

December 10, 2006

A lot of you read this blog using an RSS reader and so you probably don’t see the theme that adorns this blog but I just switched the theme that powers this blog to the NigaRila theme by Sadish Bala. I have been looking for a great 3-column theme and Sadish has created one of [...]

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Here’s To New Beginnings

December 10, 2006

New Beginnings are awesome – It’s already been a week at my new job and I am having a blast. After more than 7 years at my old job at Strong and then Wells Fargo (acquisition), it’s great to be doing something different. I love change, especially if it’s the right change for the right [...]

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How to survive Vista – Kiss UAC goodbye

December 9, 2006

As I’ve blogged before, the whole idea of User Account Control or UAC has been driving me crazy. Annoying dialog boxes that keep popping up asking for your permission before doing anything is NOT security. I’m sure Microsoft will certify and validate more applications and actions so that these annoying popup dialog boxes will soon [...]

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Vista woes continue

December 7, 2006

My Vista woes continue as I try and fail to pgrade my Office 2003 installation to Microsoft Office 2007. I tried installing the Enterprise edition of Microsoft Office 2007 and the install fails about 20% into it with the following message: Error 1310. Error writing to c:\config.msi\4f8d86e.rbf. Verify that you have access to that directory. [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 05, 2006

December 5, 2006

A Primer on Spring’s Data Access Object (DAO) Framework This article is a primer on DAO design pattern, highlighting its merits and demerits. It then introduces the Spring 2.0 JDBC/DAO framework and demonstrates how it elegantly addresses the drawbacks in traditional DAO design. (tags: java javaee j2ee dao design+patterns spring jdbc weblogic dev2dev spring2.0) Running [...]

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