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Diversity

Rogers on no Spring women

Rogers Cadenhead just wrote on another conference with no women among the speakers. It’s rather alarming how the ‘new’ technologies seem to be completely devoid of women, yet I know there are women working in these fields. Did we forget the club handshake? Miss out on when the secret decoder rings were sent around? Anyway, I have […]

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Technology

PPK at SxSW

PPK, writer of QuirksMode, has a panel proposal in at SxSW I wanted to point out to those of you attending. PPK is well known in the JavaScript circles and someone I respect for his good, commonsense approach to web page development–particularly with JavaScript. Yes, I am pointing you to a competitor, because he’s worth being pointed to […]

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Technology

Stop re-inventing this wheel

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Perhaps at SxSW, PPK can convince the new horde of Ajax developers to stop acting as if that they’ve invented the technology, all squeaky new. Via link from Ajaxian, the concept of ‘transparent’ messages from Humanized. Issues of accessibility and usability aside–been there, done that, wrote the book (page 240 to be exact).