Category: development

Oh, and the best part

Oh, and the best part about working here? We make up codenames and stupid words for things and then don’t tell anyone what they are. So, if you go to a meeting with another group, they have their own codenames and stupid words. It’s so like speaking another language that the first thirty minutes of […]

Dynamicizin’

You know what I love about our industry? We make up words. We make up stupid words. At AOL, we make up stupid acronyms and codenames for things. The other day, I was in a meeting about a project to add dynamic content to a currently static product. It was me and a bunch of […]

Blues That Fit in Your Hand

Whenever I wonder why I don’t have a PDA, I try to think of this. That’s what a handheld should do. And yes, I don’t have a cell either. I just have my lovely work-provided two-way pager. I don’t want an electronic calendar. I want a phone, browser and organizer all in one. Soon, it […]

Give it to me now!!!!

I know I’ve been slacking about posting, but I have perfectly valid reasons. Like anything with life, stuff runs hot and cold. Work is hot right now. Blogging – eh – not so hot. I’ll still post daily, but probably not the deluge I had been offering. Also, life is hot. Max has decided that […]

Ahhhh, finally. Ximian GNOME is

If the people who play

After the RedHat rumor was

The Blogger Insider Interview

I know these are late, but Mike from akacooties asked some great questions, and I really had to think about some of the answers. Here they are: shouldn’t you on max’s case, and get him to update his blog more frequently? I really should. The kid’s two already and he should be able to type. […]

Mike Brown did an excellent

How long will be before

How long will be before we can give up on supporting Netscape 4.7? Mac IE 4.5? I work for a very large corporation, with amazingly stubborn users who refuse to upgrade, or change their resolution. So, we’re stuck in the stone age supporting ancient browsers with bloated pages and spacer gifs. You’d think they could […]