BurningbirdI like my cheese sandwiches grilled, with slices of bread and butter pickles. Or with ham on sour dough. I spent the day completely tearing apart my bedroom/office, moving tables around so that I have my PC laptop on one side of my TV and my Powerbook on the other. With the DVI to HDMI […]
I finally uploaded chapter 7 for the reviewers, and was it a difficult chapter to do. The topic has to do with breaking the web with Ajax, putting it back together again, and what are known as ‘single-page’ applications. After thinking on it for days, and looking at some extraordinarily torturous ways of patching together […]
Melinda at Sour Duck has pointers to two interesting and oddly related stories. The first is The Dark Side of Community: The core problem is how to handle conflict in a medium that enables rapid escalation of conflict. I’m not clear on what constitutes a full-blown “blog war”, but I think the phrase isn’t necessarily helpful […]
I just uploaded the largest chapter, 9, and had hoped to get 10 loaded tonight, but my mind isn’t working well. Aha, I though, write in the weblog instead. This has been such a difficult book in more ways than one. The examples were huge and now, during editing, I have to find some way […]
I was testing out a humongous mashup of Flickr, RSS, Google, Technorati that I created for Chapter 9 of “Adding Ajax”, when I clicked through on the tags for a Flickr photo of Chihuly glass, which led to a weblog post that features a video of the MBG Chihuly exhibit closing; accompanied by an interview with a […]