August 2006 Blog Posts

  • A response to Scott...

    My former co-blogger, Scott recently jumped on the “FireFox Rules; IE is dead” bandwagon.  In the post he simple posts stats that don’t represent me.  So while I can’t really respond to the stats except to say this… If FireFox is superior then it will win right?  Ever here of BETAMAX, or MiniDisc?  Need I say more. My experience is different.  I used FireFox for the longest time, and even switched quite a few people over during the whole Phoenix/FireBird timeframe of the product.  With the more reccent releases, I’ve found it to be buggy and a memory hog (I don’t...

  • User Experience and a new laptop...

    My Avaratec tablet has an interesting problem these days.  It seems that I’m having an overheating issues with it.  After it has been on (like a day) and it has been used fairly heavily, it decides that it can’t take it anymore and it shuts off.  Now, I don’t mean it shuts down telling you that it needs to shut down and starts turning services off…. I mean it shuts off… from lit up LCD… to black… No power… Off!  I guess you get the point. I could almost deal with this if it was happening while I was coding, but...

  • Atlas July CTP...

    In case you haven’t seen there is a new release of the Atlas Framework for July (just barely July, IMO)…   With each release I test my instructions for enabling an existing site which can be found here. Hopefully they have fixed my Safari issue (of course, it might help if I told them about it). BTW, I recently had to do some work on a 1.1 site which was using Ajax Pro which sadly has no update-like panel.  The site notoriously has postback all over the place, so I went in search for something to replace this evil behavior.  I’m sure you’ve all heard...