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Yahoo YUI wins JavaScript Library Wars

February 23rd, 2007

There is huge web development news from Yahoo today. Yahoo is offering free hosting for YUI components, both JavaScript and CSS. I’ve been favoring the YUI, but this is a great boon. One big drawback to AJAX is Page loading performance. I’m betting that the Yahoo infrastructure can serve these files [...]

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Delphi for PHP

February 23rd, 2007

I have to comment on this week’s annoucement of Delphi for PHP. I was a Delphi programmer for about 5 years before taking up PHP about 6 years ago. What a convergence.
I have a great fondness and respect for the old Object Pascal based Delphi. Delphi’s VCL has been influential, inspiring the [...]

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Managing Open Source Projects

February 22nd, 2007

I ran across How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (video) and Producing Open Source Software (book). Anyone know of any other interesting open source project management resources?

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Free Software for Mac OS X

February 22nd, 2007

The software that comes with OS X is very capable. The mundane applications that come with OS X, such as the Finder, Preview, and Disk Utility can do some surprising things. I’ve been using Macs for 20 years and I’m still learning new tricks for these programs.
But, the installed apps can’t do everything. [...]

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How to Transfer Mac OS X Application Data between Computers

February 16th, 2007

Its been a long time coming, but I finally got a new Mac. I’ve personally owned a Mac of one sort or another since 1987, but I didn’t start using a Mac full time for work until around 2000. I’ve been going through the process of setting up the new machine.
I decided to start [...]

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