Recently, I was reading an old Joel Spolsky post called “How Microsoft Lost the API War” from June of 2004. It’s a fascinating (and long) article that’s really worth your time to read. Basically he discusses how the “new tech turnover” folks eventually beat out the “just works” folks within Microsoft’s corporate culture. Looking […]

Have you ever tried to brainstorm, plan, or otherwise think online with other people? It can be tough. You could use instant messaging, but what if you want to do something visual? What if you want to share an image? You could send a link or transmit the file. What if you wanted to […]

This strange question has been gnawing at me for a while. Don’t ask me why, it makes no sense. In fact, I asked Sean about it a couple days ago, and all I got was a “Why on Earth would you want to do that?” response. Let me lay it down for you:
If you […]

The power. The beauty. The pain. No one ever said writing Javascript to dynamically change an SVG based on user input would be easy, but I’m saying right now that it is possible. This post is supposed to serve as a rudimentary guide for getting started with doing just that, specifically highlighting the problem […]

A couple of friends of ours have gone live with Flagr, the newest web2.0 company missing an e. The service allows you to flag locations of interest that you can share with your friends and the whole world. It works off of Google Maps, so the interface should be pretty familiar to everyone. […]