Okay, so there’s lots of things wrong with Pakistan these days, but there was an interesting bit in an editorial in Newsweek by A.Q. Khan — Pakistan’s notorious nuclear architect: On Dec. 10, 1984, I informed Gen. Zia-ul-Haq that we...
Flowplayer is a great little bit of Flash and JavaScript for incorporating streaming video on your site (until we get a fully viable, widely supported HTML5 solution). I’ve used it in various capacities for putting together apps to stream recorded...
Arstechnica has another feature on the aftermath of the Microsoft’s game-changing Windows 8 + HTML5 announcement. First, a quote: The lack of broad platform support meant that Silverlight could never quite rival Flash on this front, but it was there,...
Creative name, right 🙂 In any case, Thinktastic released ChatPoint yesterday. It brings integrated, web-based chat to SharePoint 2010 (and actually would probably work fine in 2007 as well with some slight modifications). Check it out and hit the contact...
As tidbits start to come out about Windows 8, it appears that we’ll see a significant shift in the Windows UI in the next version. In itself, there’s a whole lot of significance as it’s a paradigm shift in terms...
One of my favorite things about summer is watching the bumblebees at work on my Salvias — they love the stuff.
Background Since 2005, I’ve been thinking about building a web-based, real-time collaboration solution. Back in those days, I had just discovered AJAX.NET (before ASP.NET provided an implementation of AJAX) and I had drawn up a design for a chat-centric collaboration...
I love this photograph from the The Big Picture blog: The caption for this photograph: Cyril Forck, 90, catches a small perch fish from his backyard deck, which is usually 50 feet away from the edge of the Mississippi River,...
As a newly minted father, I found an interview with Ian Brown, regarding his son’s cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome, fascinating from a variety of angles. When he was 8 months old, Walker Brown was diagnosed with cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome (CFC), a rare disorder...
That’s just a fancy term for updating content types via feature upgrades. In SharePoint 2010, there’s a new UpgradeActions element and a handy new AddContentTypeField element as well. There are a couple of good blog posts that discuss this topic...