Category: development

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 […]

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Beautiful, tragic and amazing.

I build killer apps.

I build killer apps. No, really. Unfortunately, I don’t mean WinAmp, AIM or Windows. I build apps that kill webservers. It’s what I’m good at. If you have a machine, I can probably bring it to its knees with nifty in memory caching and data manipulation. I can cripple your web farm with intense bombardment […]

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Painful and Tedious, and I’m Not Talking About My Site

My gigantic cool project is in QA and almost done. My talented QA Engineer is now load testing it. I hate load testing. It’s the worst pain you can inflict on me is to make me sit around fretting while you clobber the living crap out of my baby until it gives. It’s even worse […]

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If you think you’ve done

If you think you’ve done it all on the web and there’s nothing cool left to build, check this out. Philip Greenspun strikes again. Being able to spend time with him last June when I went to Boston for sister’s award ceremony was an eye-opening experience. I’ve used that inspiration at work to crank out […]

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I’m thinking about writing a

I’m thinking about writing a book. I have a couple ideas, the obvious being a book on creating three-tiered applications with AOLserver. I know I’m not the perfect candidate, but I don’t see anyone else writing anything about AOLserver that’s done for the general public. My other idea is a manual of style for large-scale […]