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After a month of OpenLaszlo, I've had enough. Coding in XML just isn't my style, I'm afraid. (And yes, I know you do half the coding in JavaScript, but that doesn't change anything.) I don't think that means XML-based programming languages are inferior or anything like ...

This morning I read about Synergy in Mordy Golding's blog. It's open source software that lets you move your mouse between computers, without having to use any kind of switch. All you do is plug in the hostnames and voila! I installed it on my Mac and ...

I've been tinkering around a bit with OpenLaszlo, since here at work I'm about to start writing an RIA for doing online extraction of genealogical records, and it would be really nice not to have to re-invent the wheel. :) The advantages of OpenLaszlo are ...

Some thoughts that have been going through my mind lately... In writing software, it seems like there are two distinct creative philosophies: planned vs. organic. With the first, you blueprint the whole project out in advance, thinking through everything as much as possible, sketching out the program with broad strokes ...

At work last week my boss was about to purchase a piece of software for a substantial sum. When he told me about it, I almost laughed at the ludicrous price. "They said it took about $6,000 worth of labor," he said. Completely outrageous. So I ...

Jeff Croft writes about personal content management: [A CMS] ought to make your content more useful simply by virtue of the content being in the system. But more often than not, it doesn’t. Most of time, you actually make your data (read: content) as dumb as possible by ...

I've been waiting a while for two Christmas presents (so to speak). The first has been incubating ever since Google bought Writely in March. Five minutes ago I opened Google Reader and found that the present has hatched, as Google Docs & Spreadsheets. This is very, very, very nice. ...

It's been a while since I wrote about programming. Almost a month, in fact. ~sigh~ So, the BYUFHLC is on hold for now due to time constraints at work. (I have to get all the new extraction software done by a month from now when we present it at ...

Posted about Google Reader on Top of the Mountains:

Not dead, just hibernating. :) So, I downloaded Firefox 2.0 beta 2 the other day, and this morning downloaded Firefox 2.0 RC 1. Impressions (from running it on OS X 10.4): It feels a good deal faster than Firefox 1.5. Still not as fast as it could be, I ...