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X-Objects: Movement and Visibility

Copy found at Wayback Machine. All of the X-Objects have several methods for handling visibility and movement: objSetLeft: set the left position of the element objSetTop: set the top position of the element objGetLeft: get the current left position of the element, if set objGetTop: get the top position of the element, if set objMoveRelative: […]

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X-Objects: Creating the new X-Objects

Copy found on Wayback Machine. The original cross-browser objects encapsulated browser-specific DHTML implementation behind a set of exposed interfaces, making it easier to change the implementation if needed, and easier to create and maintain my DHTML pages. When a new browser version (or browser) releases, I can make changes to handle the new implementation details […]

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In celebration of technology

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It seems everywhere you look within the high tech industry, all you see is doom and gloom — closed companies, laid off employees, crashing Internet stock. I feel as if I should stand on top of a tall mountain, shouting out, “Is anyone still left in the technology industry!?!” At […]

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COM+ to .NET: Fast Forward Your VB Components

Originally published at O’Reilly The joke goes: “How do you pronounce ‘C#’?”, and the punch line is: “The language formerly known as Java.” Extending this, you can say that .NET is “…the infrastructure formerly known as COM/DCOM.” The .NET infrastructure is significantly different from COM/COM+. However, information about .NET has been out long enough so […]

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O’Reilly P2P Presentation Proposal

Title: Smoke: An Infrastructure supporting Distributed Peer Services Length: 60 minutes Focus of Talk: Technical/Tutorial Subject Matter: Infrastructure/Distributed Computation Abstract The sale of large scale control systems — such as those used with mass transit systems or to control multi-national pipelines — often requires a marketing and engineering effort that demands the input of several different people, many of […]