Sunday, March 16, 2003

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"Virtual Online" Work at Home Job Fair
Saturday, March 19th & Sunday, March
20th, 2005 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Central/Each Day

"Virtual Online" Work at Home Job Fair
Saturday, March 19th & Sunday, March
20th, 2005 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Central/Each Day 03/17/2005 03:02 AM
Via live online voice conferencing booths, this first ever Virtual Work at Home Job Fair offers individuals in the home based business industry a unique opportunity to represent their company's products and services to a global audience. [PRWEB Mar 16, 2005]

COMDEX Las Vegas 2003 Media Preview
Panel To Take Place At The Aladdin Hotel
Sunday, November 16, 2003

COMDEX Las Vegas 2003 Media Preview
Panel To Take Place At The Aladdin Hotel
Sunday, November 16, 2003 11/04/2003 05:19 AM
COMDEX Nov 4 2003 3:59AM ET

March 2003 Column> What's New 2003

March 2003 Column> What's New 2003 03/11/2003 09:44 AM
My March 2003 column is complete and titled " What's New 2003". It mentions Internet "What's New" resources that I articulate in my various national key note presentations, workshops and television/radio interviews. Other resources are also available to my radio interview listeners by clicking here.

March 07, 2003

March 07, 2003 03/11/2003 09:44 AM

I just got back from inspecting the new Fog Creek Office, a sunny loft in the shmatta district, with the architect. It's going to make a really nice office when we're finished building it out, with private offices, a living room area, kitchenette, and, budget permitting, a pool table and plasma TV. Here's what I told the architect:

• private windowed offices are non-negotiable
• we need three times as many power outlets as anyone would think. I'm sick of power strips. I have ten things plugged in right at my desk. I specified 4 outlets every foot, is that absurd?
• I want to be able to pull my own lan, telephone, fiber, and cable TV wires. Even if they're exposed.

 

15-March-2003 -- F@ck That Job

15-March-2003 -- F@ck That Job 03/15/2003 09:42 AM
F@ck That Job -- "my answer to employers taking advantage of folks having a hard time finding a job in...

March 03, 2003

March 03, 2003 03/11/2003 09:44 AM

My latest article, “Building Communities with Software,” was sent to email subscribers earlier today.

If you did not get it and expected to get it, you're probably having problems with overenthusiastic spam filters. I got lots of bounces, mostly from Fortune 500 type companies, rejecting the message, because of "inappropriate content" or because their automatic filters had decided it was spam. Some of them complained about "taboo," other's complained about "hard core." Most didn't tell me. Such is the state of email today.

If you did not get the article and you want it, you can read a shorter, sanitized version online. But it still contains the word "taboo" so if that offends you you may want to avert your eyes!

March 14, 2003

March 14, 2003 03/14/2003 06:10 PM

AngryCoder: “FogBUGZ is very well designed, and virtually bug free. Frankly, if you are in the market for a defect tracking solution, you can’t do much better than FogBUGZ. It is by far the best solution on the market right now, and is also very attractively priced.” Thanks!

Joseph Jones, who wrote the review, didn’t like the perceived lack of customizability in FogBUGZ. I hear ya. This was one of those agonizing decisions for us. It’s a tradeoff between implementing features that make the sale, versus implementing features that, we think, will make people who use our software love it, which helps in the long term. At the time it was discussed in depth here on Joel on Software.

Take, for example, a typical report a bug tracking package gives you that shows you the number of bugs generated per day per programmer. Typical bad managers will use that tool to punish programmers with high bug counts or reward programmers with low bug counts. As a result, every time a tester tries to enter a bug, the programmer will argue about it. “That's not really a bug.” “Please don't enter it, I'll fix it on the side for you.” Eventually the bug tracking system subverts itself. That's not FogBUGZ's fault, but there you have it. Nobody wants to use it, they never upgrade, they don't buy more licenses when they get more programmers, and we lose the potential word of mouth.

The current system, in which we expect FogBUGZ users to have enlightened development processes, makes us miss out on initial sales but it makes our existing customers happier. And they tell friends, and they buy more and more licences, and all is good. We've found that anyone who has been using FogBUGZ and moves on to a new job that doesn't have bug tracking will recommend FogBUGZ at their new job, which is one reason our sales are up by about 200% since last year.

But this is all, to some extent, speculation. I can't prove anything here. Design decisions are hard that way.

Pro News : March 14, 2003

Pro News : March 14, 2003 03/14/2003 01:39 AM
Stick Software adds screen saver to revamped line; Devon retools Think Griffin extends ADC connections; Two developers offer file navigation for OS X; Virtix adds iDVD themes to plug-in offerings; Stupendous revamps for iMovie 3; Web tuner for the rest of the world released; Server tool released for education market

13-March-2003 -- The Answer

13-March-2003 -- The Answer 03/12/2003 09:11 PM
The Answer -- "Why does searching my PC for a file take several minutes, yet searching for phrase in a...

Thursday, March 06, 2003

Thursday, March 06, 2003 03/13/2003 10:23 AM
Re-design in the Time of "Car"-lera.

Friday, March 07, 2003

Friday, March 07, 2003 03/13/2003 10:23 AM
The machines aren't touching.

Pro News : March 3, 2003

Pro News : March 3, 2003 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
1U Mac-compatible server released; Backup system gets bigger; Drive maker hits 250GB plateau; Apple to display wares in Boston show; Mariner releases new Write public beta; Neat use for Bluetooth; Free kalenders for everybody; Mass mailing software gets update

Pro News : March 4, 2003

Pro News : March 4, 2003 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
Better utilities released for OS X; New Tool for FileMaker fiends; Macromedia makes flashy moves; Blog by phone; Long arm of the law can rat you out; Captain FTP gets update

13-March-2003 -- Forward

13-March-2003 -- Forward 03/12/2003 10:17 PM
Foreword -- "The book design blog."...

14-March-2003 -- eBayersThatSuck.com

14-March-2003 -- eBayersThatSuck.com 03/14/2003 01:03 PM
eBayersThatSuck.com -- "A public posting forum for ebay members to inform ethical ebay users about problematic members, suspicious occurrences, and...

BOLTS : March 10, 2003

BOLTS : March 10, 2003 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
OK, so you?ve made the switch over to Mac OS X from another Unix flavor (Linux, Solaris, whatever). What are some of the goodies that OS X brings to the table?

CodeBitch : March 10, 2003

CodeBitch : March 10, 2003 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
In which CodeBitch discusses the finer points of log analysis for fun and standards usage

Pro News : March 7, 2003

Pro News : March 7, 2003 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
Menubar widget for AppleWorks; Finder alternative offers speed boost; Time-tracking softwares get updates; Gecko spawns three OS X browsers; Worldwide presentations made easy; Open-sourced Windows emulator released

13-March-2003 -- Marketing Fix

13-March-2003 -- Marketing Fix 03/12/2003 09:11 PM
Marketing Fix -- "For busy professionals concerned with Internet marketing and media, we aggregate news and analysis from dozens of...

19-March-2003 -- What Are
Telesymposiums?

19-March-2003 -- What Are
Telesymposiums? 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
What Are Telesymposiums? -- "Free teleseminars which are part talk, part action. We discuss concrete tactics which solve the problem...

8-March-2003 -- Usability Law

8-March-2003 -- Usability Law 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
Usability Law -- "There are a number of ways that the law impacts on the usability of software and its...

Pro News : March 17, 2003

Pro News : March 17, 2003 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
Extensis lands preflight deal; Your preprint files go anywhere; Shutterfly makes independent move; HP starts trial run for photo kiosks; New cameras from HP; Kodak tries computing end run; Canon releases high-resolution scanner; Vendor releases 16-megapixel chip

Pro News : March 11, 2003

Pro News : March 11, 2003 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
Toshiba aims to put 802.11 everywhere; HP tries to hit the handheld Hotspot; Radio broadcasts for wireless networks; Sony adds to the digital hub; Mitsumi stretches Bluetooth further

5-March-2003 -- Nag-O-Matic

5-March-2003 -- Nag-O-Matic 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
Nag-O-Matic (Business 2.0) -- "I never thought I'd actually get to meet Big Brother. And if I did, I never...

18-March-2003 -- Eve of destruction

18-March-2003 -- Eve of destruction 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
Eve of destruction -- "That this war, like Bush's larger "war on terrorism," has no clear definition of its aims,...

18-March-2003 -- Just bluffin'

18-March-2003 -- Just bluffin' 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
Just bluffin' -- "Here are some terms you should be aware of when next you have to talk techie or...

Pro News : March 20, 2003

Pro News : March 20, 2003 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
Trinfinity scripts iTunes; Developers seek user input; Musical lessons on net radio; Digital hub gets disconnected; HAM radio app gets update; German browsers get IE toolbar icons; Flashcards for the digital set; New movie editor hits the streets

Conférence PHP Québec 2003
- (Montréal, March 20&21rst,
2003)

Conférence PHP Québec 2003
- (Montréal, March 20&21rst,
2003) 01/29/2003 12:48 AM
The PHP Québec association announces the Conférence PHP Québec 2003. The conference will take place in the École Polytechnique de Montréal, Québec, Canada. The Conférence PHP Québec features two days of conferences, with outstanding customer cases from Canada, and cutting edge technical sessions, hosted by international experts. An exhibitor room will showroom professional solutions. Learn more about those exciting days at phpconf.phpquebec.com.

13-March-2003 -- Compare and Contrast

13-March-2003 -- Compare and Contrast 03/12/2003 09:11 PM
Compare and Contrast -- Scientists develop 'brain chip' versus World's first brain prosthesis revealed...

10-March-2003 -- WebWord Comment

10-March-2003 -- WebWord Comment 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
WebWord Comment -- Resistence is fertile? (5 reasons why IT users say “no” to change)...

10-March-2003 -- Equal access

10-March-2003 -- Equal access 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
Equal access (The Age) -- "But people with disabilities - whether vision impaired, mobility impaired, speech or hearing impaired or...

8-March-2003 -- Five Reasons to Hope

8-March-2003 -- Five Reasons to Hope 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
Five Reasons to Hope -- "New techologies that may help Silicon Valley rise again."...

5-March-2003 -- IT & Society (Vol. 1,
Issue 3)

5-March-2003 -- IT & Society (Vol. 1,
Issue 3) 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
WebWord Comment -- Don't miss: IT & Society (Vol. 1, Issue 3) It is all about information architecture, usability, web...

13-March-2003 -- WebWord Comment

13-March-2003 -- WebWord Comment 03/12/2003 09:11 PM
WebWord Comment -- Bush is an oil man. I can't imagine that he would ever really care about hydrogen fuel....

8-March-2003 -- WebWord Comment

8-March-2003 -- WebWord Comment 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
WebWord Comment -- Warren E. Buffett is a great communicator. The Berkshire Hathaway 2002 Annual Report (PDF) is available....

12-March-2003 -- Lessons From the Field:
Beyond ROI

12-March-2003 -- Lessons From the Field:
Beyond ROI 03/13/2003 12:21 AM
Lessons From the Field: Beyond ROI -- "So how do you make a good business case for a project? We...

15-March-2003 -- Something from Nothing:
the Alchemy of Experience

15-March-2003 -- Something from Nothing:
the Alchemy of Experience 03/15/2003 09:42 AM
Something from Nothing: the Alchemy of Experience -- "What most amazes me is that such small amounts of raw material...

19-March-2003 -- WebWord Comment

19-March-2003 -- WebWord Comment 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
WebWord Comment -- Green Button...

20-March-2003 -- WebWord Comment

20-March-2003 -- WebWord Comment 03/20/2003 11:09 PM
WebWord Comment -- Want to visit Starbucks? Cookies are required. Ha!...
Grok Description matches for Sunday, March 16, 2003
GrokA matches for Sunday, March 16, 2003

Easy JavaScript Autocomplete /
Intellisense Script

Easy JavaScript Autocomplete /
Intellisense Script 04/15/2005 06:14 PM

I occasionally run into situations where it would be really great to add an 'intellisense' feature to a text input on a web form. That is, something along the lines of AutoComplete or Google Suggest.

There are a bunch of scripts available on the Internets to handle this for you, but they all do things their own way, and they're never exactly what yor want. I'm always running into the same problems with them:

• Only works in IE. Bye.
• Big hairy mass of code. The usual situation is that I want to customize some element of the script's behavior, but the code is so dense and obtuse that I can't make changes without breaking things.
• No documentation. A big hairy mass of code is even harder to deal with if you don't know what it's supposed to do in the first place.

So, I finally broke down and wrote my own script. It may not be better than what's out there, but hopefully it's easier to understand.

Autocomplete

Autocomplete 06/22/2004 01:05 AM
A little while ago, I received an email from Palo Mraz offering me a free license for his Dynamic Autocomplete .NET Component, to be used in SharpReader. Having given it a spin, I have to say I'm very impressed. Usage of this component is a snap: you just drop it on your form and all your existing TextBoxes become automagically... (179 words)

Bonus Tip: Delete AutoComplete

Bonus Tip: Delete AutoComplete 09/23/2004 11:22 PM
G4 Tech TV Sep 24 2004 3:26AM GMT

Professional JavaScript for Web
Developers: JavaScript in the Browser,
Pt. 1

Professional JavaScript for Web
Developers: JavaScript in the Browser,
Pt. 1 06/22/2005 02:51 AM
Web browsers have come a long way over the years and can now handle a variety of file formats, not just conventional HTML. Here, you'll learn how JavaScript fits into HTML, other languages, and some basic concepts of the Browser Object Model (BOM). By WROX Press. 0620

JavaScript, son of JavaScript

JavaScript, son of JavaScript 03/17/2005 04:00 AM
From SxSW, Molly writes about The Return of JavaScript: …one conversation that keeps coming up among many of my colleagues is the question as to whether the timing is right to re-examine the importance of the DOM and scripting, and...

Javascript-MD5-1.04

Javascript-MD5-1.04 07/29/2004 06:40 AM

Javascript-MD5-1.02

Javascript-MD5-1.02 04/13/2004 06:05 AM

JavaScript-RPC-0.05

JavaScript-RPC-0.05 08/12/2004 12:44 AM

Javascript-MD5-1.00

Javascript-MD5-1.00 03/06/2004 02:03 AM

JavaScript-RPC-0.03

JavaScript-RPC-0.03 01/25/2004 05:46 AM

XML-RSS-JavaScript-0.3

XML-RSS-JavaScript-0.3 10/29/2003 11:31 PM

Going JavaScript-less?

Going JavaScript-less? 02/18/2004 02:19 AM

How many people actually shut off JavaScript in their browsers? In the Web development world, you're constantly advised not to depend on JavaScript because "[insert double-digit percentage here] of Web surfers shut off JavaScript."

I have never known someone who shut off JavaScript. I have used a lot of computers in my life — many not my own — and never in one case have I noticed that JavaScript was intentionally disabled. I have never had anyone I know tell me that they shut off JavaScript to solve a problem. I have never even been remotely tempted to do this myself.

Is there anyone out there who has actually shut off JavaScript in their browser? Can you tell us why?

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Javascript-MD5-1.03

Javascript-MD5-1.03 04/28/2004 05:53 AM

JavaScript and Accessibility. Pt. 2.

JavaScript and Accessibility. Pt. 2. 03/14/2005 05:04 PM
Last week we began this series with a discussion about new practical and standards-compliant use of JavaScript. We also covered some classical techniques and how to fix them. We continue that process this week, where we look at form validation and rollovers. By Jonathan Fenocchi. 0221

Better Forms with JavaScript

Better Forms with JavaScript 01/24/2004 10:36 PM

Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms: Some good JavaScript tricks for more usable forms.

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Validation with JavaScript

Validation with JavaScript 12/02/2003 12:15 AM
Form validation can help to reduce the amount of bad data that gets saved to your database. In this article, find out how you can write a simple JavaScript form validator for basic client-side validation, and learn a little bit about JavaScript OOP in the process as well.

Javascript Mojo

Javascript Mojo 11/05/2003 02:32 PM

Stuart Langridge has released a couple of very neat new Javascript experiments. sorttable makes any data table on a page "sortable" by clicking the table headers. I've seen this effect used to demonstrate Microsoft's proprietary "behaviors" technology but Stuart's solution has the advantage of being standards compliant and working across different browsers. Best of all, it follows the principles of inobtrusive DHTML and hooks in to the markup using only a class attribute.

Stuart's second experiment, JavaScript Event Sheets, is even more interesting. It tackles the problem of attaching events to page elements. The most common way of doing this is with inline attributes, but these require adding behavioural (rather than structural) code to your markup and can lead to additional maintenance costs further down the road. A better alternative is to use the DOM to dynamically add events, which works fine but means tightly coupling the structure of the document to the Javascript that sets up the events. Stuart's solution is to abstract the logic that attaches events to elements out to a separate file, called a Javascript Event Sheet. This uses CSS style syntax (partially handled by my getElementsBySelector function) to specify how events attached to different elements should be handled. Stuart demonstrates the idea with a common image rollover:

img.rollover {
  mouseover: rollover_handler;
  mouseout: rollout_handler;
}

Stuart's blog entries concerning the two new experiments are here and JavaScript Event Sheets.

Javascript-Menu-2.00

Javascript-Menu-2.00 10/31/2003 10:37 AM

Javascript-Menu-2.01.1

Javascript-Menu-2.01.1 05/29/2004 06:28 AM

JavaScript and Accessibility. Pt. 1.

JavaScript and Accessibility. Pt. 1. 03/14/2005 05:04 PM
In this first article of a three part series, the author introduces us to an increased awareness of web standards, W3C compliance, responsible scripting (which includes a checklist), and fixes for several classical JavaScript design methods that don't work. By Jonathan Fenocchi. 0214

JavaScript and Accessibility. Pt. 3.

JavaScript and Accessibility. Pt. 3. 03/14/2005 05:04 PM
This week we'll learn about fixes and creative options for Drop-down Navigation Selections and DHTML Menus. Other topics covered are proprietary alternatives, document.all and innerHTML. By Jonathan Fenocchi. 0228

JavaScript Triggers

JavaScript Triggers 02/01/2005 09:28 PM
Now that you've separated your website's (XHTML) structure from its (CSS) presentation, wouldn't it be great to similarly abstract the behavioral (JavaScript) layer from the others? ALA prodigal Peter-Paul Koch shows how to use JavaScript Triggers to do just that.

Atom-JavaScript-0.4

Atom-JavaScript-0.4 08/06/2004 04:31 PM

Javascript Windows 0.3

Javascript Windows 0.3 01/05/2004 04:51 AM
A virtual Javascript window environment simulator.

XML and JavaScript in Mozilla

XML and JavaScript in Mozilla 01/08/2004 08:49 PM
WebmasterBase Jan 8 2004 3:31AM ET

Javascript-SHA1-1.00

Javascript-SHA1-1.00 04/28/2004 05:53 AM

JavaScript Clocks

JavaScript Clocks 08/15/2004 12:04 PM

Direct and Related Links for 'JavaScript Clocks'

These generally only work in Internet Explorer. This one is really cool, and there are a lot of other ones here….

Javascript Windows 0.1

Javascript Windows 0.1 12/28/2003 06:38 AM
A virtual Javascript window environment simulator.

Atom-JavaScript-0.2

Atom-JavaScript-0.2 12/18/2003 06:09 PM

Atom-JavaScript-0.1

Atom-JavaScript-0.1 12/17/2003 11:51 PM

Sunday, March 16, 2003

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