Archive for March, 2006

Jigsaw

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Jigsaw is really evil and anyone that uses it will get a lot of bad karma. It allows people to sell contact information for a $1 per entry and then Jigsaw aggregates that information and sells it to whomever is willing to pay.
Now you have to be careful about who you hand a business card [...]

Security Now!

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Security Now! is a podcast by Steve Gibson with host Leo Laporte. The technology descriptions are basic (i.e. for beginners) but also very comprehensive. Most importantly, it is right up to date with news about current malware and ways or pointers to avoid or fix it.
There are even written transcripts if one needs to go [...]

TWiT

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

TWiT (This Week In Tech) is the big gun of technology podcasts. Starring Leo Laporte and a bunch of the old Tech TV crowd. It’s a must listen every week.
From Dvorak’s constant self-promotion and griping to the funny outtakes at the end you can tell that everyone is having a good time. There are other [...]

Prototype JavaScript Framework

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

Prototype is the Javascript library that comes with Ruby on Rails and it makes AJAX programming clean and easy. It’s nicely organized and adds very useful functionality to Javascript for manipulating DOM objects.
I rewrote an AJAX application using it and it simplified my code by about an order of magnitude.


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