BurningbirdWhen I first went to work at the dot-com, Skyfish, too many years ago, I was faced with an application that had a partial interface, little back end development, and that had cost the investors 1.5 million dollars I believe it was (might have been 2 million — hard to keep track in those days). […]
I’ve been hearing quite a bit about Ajax, the new wonder technology lately, and finally decided to take some time to check it out. I followed the link to the Adaptive Path essay on Ajax, and started reading through the writing until I came to the diagram showing an “Ajax Engine”, as part of the new innovation. […]
In the last two weeks, two WordPress weblog sites have had their sites suspended or moved to interim servers because of performance issues. In both cases, the ISPs who hosted the sites (different companies) sent snapshots of the MySQL processes that caused the problems with the emails. I worked with one of the sites offline, […]
I was asked to help a group weblog with its new look a week or so ago and it ended up being more work than I expected. However, I finally finished that work today — really, really finished– and have started my final descent for the first release of this product. I found a couple […]
I’m in the middle of preparing my annual “Burningbird’s Bash of Etech” presentation. It will have the usual: laughs, tears, and passionate outrage and sad reflection in equal measure–not to mention, intense inspection of photographs with an accompanying “is the one with a shaved head, tattoos, bulgy chest, and eye liner a boy or a […]