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Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

One work-ish post and I disappear for weeks on end. Sorry about that - and for my non-responsiveness to the comments that've been coming in while I've been gone. I was a little down in the dumps for a while there, and work's picked up in a major way. So here's ...

A work post? Here???

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

That's right, folks, I'm finally talking about work. I know you've all been waiting eagerly, so here it is: I'm dealing with podcasting at the moment. We're trying to create a podcast that individual users can subscribe to (each via a custom url) and download their purchased products. I've got everything humming ...

For the love of pete!

Friday, July 1st, 2005

I feel like I wasted six hours of my life today at work... We're launching a new site next week, and in the course of last-minute testing on the production server we finally stumbled across the small fact that the payment system wasn't working. Another developer and I debugged, debugged, ...

Visual Vocabulary

Friday, June 25th, 2004

For those of you in need of an easy-to-learn, easy-to-explain visual vocabulary for your IA diagrams, take a look at Jesse James Garrett's Visual Vocabulary. I ran across JJG's VV while playing around in OmniGraffle yesterday (which, as an aside, is a FANTASTIC application for you Mac users out there), ...

Great wrapup of recent web app discussion

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004

As usual, when Dave Shea weighs in on an issue, you know he's there. His latest is entitled "Web Apps are Hot", and is a review of the recent flurry of activity surrounding web-based application development. It's a great summary of the state of things so far, and should be ...