Archive for December, 2007


Jing: Easy screen capture and sharing (and its free!)

I have been using Jing (by TechSmith) for months now to take on-the-fly screen captures and screen casts and sharing them with friends and colleagues. Prior to Jing I was (and still am) a big fan of SnagIt (also by TechSmith). If you’re familiar with SnagIt then you will notice that Jing picks up where [...]

News Highlights for 12.17.07: IE8 & Firefox 3, Web Service Privacy and Amazon SimpleDB

Will the next browser war focus on Web Standards?
The future is looking bright for web developers. IE8 has passed the Acid2 test. Firefox 3 also passed a little while back. As a web developer this is very encouraging. I believe that the standardization of the web has played a big role in the development of [...]

Code as therapy

Google’s Code Search provides some insight into the troubled minds of developers. Ben Orenstein at codeulate highlights some of the more entertaining code comments. I also believe this documents the first known use of the term “lametarded”.
Granted access to billions of lines of code and the awesome power of Google’s search technology, I did what [...]