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Simple goes corporate
When Wired News asked me to look into what became my latest article, it wasn’t about simplicity. Or Web 2.0, for that matter. I suppose the simple theme isn’t incredibly apparent in the final result, but it was a big topic with the people I interviewed. Take LucidEra, the main company I wrote about. In order [...]
Continue reading...The two types of APIs
19. September 2006
Two weeks ago we had a good Web Innovators meeting. There were only four of us: Jacob, Marshall, Ryan, and me. The smaller group made for an in-depth discussion about APIs. We kept coming back to a distinction between whether the API is authenticated or public. Am I getting at my own data or am I [...]
Continue reading...APIs, APIs, everywhere – Portland Web Innovators September meeting
5. September 2006
Hey Portland Web geeks! The Portland Web Innovators are getting together for our September meeting tomorrow (Wednesday), September 6. Check out the details at Upcoming. The topic will be APIs: what are they? how are people using them? how can you offer them with your service? If you are interested in using or offering an API, we’ll [...]
Continue reading...At the end of the day, a flight delayed is a mashup made
8. August 2006
For what it’s worth, I’m not usually one for cliches. It’s like there’s no there there, only on steroids. After watching my nephews, I was stranded at the airport for an extra five hours Sunday night. There was plenty of actual work I could have done, but instead I decided to pound out this site: At The [...]
Continue reading...WifiPDX reaches new milestone
1. August 2006
In July, over 2,000 people used my free WiFi site, WifiPDX. This is 20% more people than the previous high (March). It’s small beans to those who follow real Web traffic, but it’s been fun to watch the improvement. From a revenue standpoint, not much is going on for WifiPDX. That’s fine with me, because the [...]
Continue reading...Webvisions and PDX Web Innovators
17. July 2006
It’s a big week in Portland for Web folk. We’ll be exploring the future of the Web at Webvisions, a two-day conference featuring some Web leaders. To kick that off, the Portland Web Innovators will be having a social get-together at The Rose and Raindrop. Here’s the Upcoming.org details. Out of towners welcome. As Ryan suggested, [...]
Continue reading...Webmonkey mothballed again
16. July 2006
What an awful term, mothballed. By definition, it means that something is just being put away for a short while. But in reality, it usually means something is dead. Well, I received a similar email that Valleywag references. It looks like last week’s sale of Wired News was the final straw. Jeff Veen wrote a nice [...]
Continue reading...Monkeys love cookies
29. June 2006
My latest Webmonkey article is about cookies, those simple little bits of data that sites store on our computers through a browser. Specifically, I write about the need to know whether the user has cookies enabled before the cookies are used. The tutorial has code examples in three languages: JavaScript cookie sniffer PHP cookie sniffer ASP.NET cookie sniffer
Continue reading...Feelin’ Spry – Easy Ajax for Designers
25. May 2006
My latest Webmonkey article is about Adobe’s pre-release of their Ajax framework, Spry, aimed specifically at designers. Retrieving data from XML files is as easy as HTML. I’m pretty keen on it. Though there are drawbacks, they’re not a big deal, and it’s perfect for the intended audience: non-master-coders. The article has a pretty good overview [...]
Continue reading...My personal approach to spam
13. May 2006
Are you wary of giving our your email address when you’re asked for it? This is more common these days, even offline. Companies have asked me over the phone, on application forms, and of course all over the Web. Most people probably give out what they call their “spam address,” some Hotmail account they check [...]
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13. November 2006
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