You are here: Home » Geekery
Archive | Geekery RSS feed for this section

Steve Jobs On Digital Rights Management (DRM)

by mitch on February 6, 2007 in Geekery, Music, Talk

Today Steve Jobs takes on the controversial topic of DRM. In a post on Apple’s website, Steve Jobs provides some background on DRM and the role it plays in Apple’s ability to offer music in the iTunes Store. He concludes by offering some compelling reasons to scrap DRM. Jobs cites figures regarding the number of [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Sanitize File Names Using VBScript

by mitch on May 18, 2006 in Geekery, Programming, VBScript

We use an ASP based form to enable our customers to submit files created as part of a registration process. During the submission, the file is sent as an email attachment to our support staff, and a copy is written to a file server as a backup. The application uses a standard Win32 Save dialog [...]

Read full story • Comments { 2 }

Gmail Service Outage?

by mitch on May 4, 2006 in Geekery

Anyone else seeing this? I’ve been getting either 404 Not Found or 503 Service Unavailable errors when trying to access my Gmail account. I first noticed this about 1:50pm PDT (GMT -8), but suspect it’s been going on a bit longer. What’s up? Funny, I was just thinking I need to switch to Gmail exclusively. [...]

Read full story • Comments { 2 }

Firefox Smart Keywords for Microsoft Support and MSDN Sites

by mitch on May 2, 2006 in Geekery

Smart Keywords are one of my favorite Firefox features. Enter a keyword in the location bar (CTRL + L), type a couple of search terms, and voila, instant results with minimal typing. Since my job requires frequenting the Microsoft Support and MSDN sites, I added Smart Keywords to simplify the searches. Each of the following [...]

Read full story • Comments { 3 }

Lunarpages Hosting Down

by mitch on April 24, 2006 in Asides, Geekery, Talk

My site was down for most of the afternoon due to a power outage at my hosting provider. According to this post, since the outage only affected a single floor, backup generators did not come online as expected. I am not sure I understand why they couldn’t start them manually.

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Thinking Before You Comment

by mitch on April 24, 2006 in Blog Stuff, Talk

I know I’m not the first, but a recent experience taught me a valuable lesson: There is no “undo” button when posting a comment to someone else’s weblog. Stumbling upon a post offering what I thought was a bad piece of advice, I felt compelled to inflict my personal opinion on the site owner. While [...]

Read full story • Comments { 2 }

Linkto: Scriptaculous Cheat Sheet

by mitch on April 24, 2006 in Ajax, Asides, Geekery, JavaScript

Amy Hoy offers up Scriptaculous Cheat Sheet #1, a “Field Guide to Script.aculo.us Combination Effects”. Basic effects syntax all on a single-page PDF. Nicely done.

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

innerHTML Not So Evil After All?

by mitch on April 21, 2006 in Geekery, Talk, Web Design

There’s been some discussion about whether using the non-standard innerHTML is an acceptable way to add content. Coming to the defense of the maligned property is this article at Robert Nyman’s site, co-authored by Anne van Kesteren a member of the W3C, stating, When it comes to having greater scalability in a web page, especially [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Links to Web Services, Tips, and Lists

by mitch on April 20, 2006 in Geekery, Links

eConsultant : Web 2.0 Directory, Technical Tips and Lists is a grand link dump of sorts, categorized in a couple of different ways to make it easy to find what you are looking for. I’ve linked previously to a couple of categories in my daily del.icio.us posts. My favorites so far: Layout-palooza, for some great [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Linkto: Create Your Own Ajax Effects

by mitch on April 19, 2006 in Ajax, Asides, Geekery, JavaScript, Talk, Web 2.0, Web Design

Thomas Fuchs, creator of the Script.aculo.us JavaScript effects library shows you how to create your own Ajax effects. Roll your own fabulous Web 2.0 effects using the amazing Script.aculo.us effects engine.

Read full story • Comments { 0 }
← Older posts
Newer posts →