Monthly Archives: July 2007

Ajax Experience Conference

Last week I attended The Ajax Experience 2007 3-day conference in downtown San Francisco. There sure were some big guys speaking including Brendan Eich, CTO Mozilla; Douglas Crawford, Senior Architect, Yahoo!; and Kevin Lynch, Chief Software Architect at Adobe. The … Continue reading

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Feedburner Pro now free (thanks to Google)

Google recently purchased the master RSS feed utility Feedburner. In doing so, Google has made the PRO account and services now free to any user; there was previously a fee for the upgrade. This is great news for folks with … Continue reading

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Internet Wasteland Song

A song “Internet Wasteland” from Eddy Boston about web programming and coding. He and a friend dreamed it up over Fish ‘n’ Chips. Some of it is pretty funny, especially the lines about AOL and Adwords. You can read the … Continue reading

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How to Use Free Captchas.net and Stop SPAM

Captchas.net is a great free service that provides web accessible CAPTCHA so that your online forms can be saved from SPAM. Captchas.net also provides sample code for ASP, JSP, Perl and Python. The site is available in English, German, and … Continue reading

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Fry’s Electronics is Great

When I was planning on moving to Northern California, my cousin told me to check out Fry’s Electronics. Man, he wasn’t kidding when he said it was big. It’s like a super Wal-Mart but for just computers and electronics! It’s … Continue reading

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Web Axe Topics

The idea of my podcast on web accessibility, Web Axe, is to provide “practical web accessibility tips”. The last couple episodes are angled a bit towards theory and ran a bit longer more than my preference, but the topics are … Continue reading

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