Back in the early to mid nineties, businesses all wanted to “get online” to establish their web presence on the (then) newly popular “information super-highway.” Having a website was promised to bring them untold riches and an exponential increase in customers. Even brick-and-mortar local businesses that didn’t offer any services not available on site joined [...]
There’s a lot of hullabaloo on the internet presently about some spurious claims made by famed thumb-haver Roger Ebert, in which he claims that “video games can never be art.” Everyone is attempting to argue with him by giving examples of games that have exceptional cinematics, sound, storytelling, voice acting, etc etc. This is the [...]
Joel Spolsky is treated with reverence by the programming community. It seems like every blog post, comment, interview, Tumble, etc. that has his name associated with it ends up on Hacker News or Reddit. Certainly he has a profound impact on the programming community and many, many people take his words as gospel. I’ve been [...]
I love Google Chrome, especially on my 15-inch laptop screen. the minimal UI saves as much vertical space as possible, which is great for reducing the amount of scrolling I need to do when viewing websites. Lately though, I’ve been noticing a little graphical glitch in the program, and I’m not even using one of [...]
I started working a summer internship position with the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in mid March. The university just purchased a Google Search Appliance and my job is the rollout of the appliance. Right now the university’s search is running on a Google Mini, which is quickly being outgrown. So, we’re developing a web service to [...]