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The Wrong Way to Ajax 25 Sep 2010 | 09:31 am
Recently I logged onto LinkedIn, to belatedly answer to connection requests. LinkedIn now has some fancy ajax stuff, so you can just click accept on an invitation, and instead of loading a page, it d...
MySQL Performance: # of columns vs varchars 9 Oct 2009 | 12:20 pm
I have long told fellow developers that trying to stick to tables that have entirely fixed width columns is good practice. This tends to lead to, at the least, normalizing out text on a performance s...
MySQL NULL gotcha; or, yes, Virginia, types do matter 29 Apr 2009 | 09:15 am
If you spend a lot of time dealing with languages that are loosely typed and have scalars running wild, then like me, you may be prone to doing something like this: mysql> select NOW(); select GREATE...
Worth 23 Oct 2008 | 06:41 pm
This may be worth following.
Seinfeld is an appropriate Microsoft shill; Vista is a joke 22 Aug 2008 | 01:44 pm
I was pleased and amused at news that Seinfeld will apparently pimp Vista, which has been ravaged by issues such as poor performance, the way UAC trains users to click yes without providing real secur...
If this is an iPhone killer, don't take out insurance yet 8 Aug 2008 | 06:41 pm
Seriously Wired, what's wrong with you? The E71 looks more like a Blackberry Killer, but don't be fooled: This great white hope gives the iPhone a run for its money in a lot of different areas (yes, ...
Slacker 15 Jul 2008 | 05:18 pm
I'm aware I haven't posted much. That said, I'm hoping to have an app I've been working on for the GAE (Google App Engine) done shortly, and will post some impressions about the GAE, and Python. (Wait...
Xen and the Art of Virtualization 20 Jun 2008 | 01:10 pm
I have historically had several servers at Layered Tech. They recently raised their prices, and the prices for several friends who have hosted servers there. The majority of our use is low volume, exp...
jQuery 1.2.6 10 Jun 2008 | 06:17 pm
A couple weeks ago, the jQuery team released jquery 1.2.6. jQuery is the write-once, run-anywhere a new type of javascript library. It's incredibly full of win. Favorite things in 1.2.6: Still smal...
jquery, the jquery form plugin, and detecting an ajax submit 9 Apr 2008 | 03:44 pm
When you send a request via $.ajax, $.get, or $.post in jquery, you can test for the HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH header, looking for a value of 'XMLHttpRequest', a la: function isajax() { return ((!empty($...
