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Archive for November, 2009

I have long argued that 99% if the things people think they need to use Adobe’s Flash for could be done just as well using JavaScript.

Now that jQuery is available, I am even more convinced that this is the case.

There are, however, a few hurdles that need to be jumped to make this happen.  For example, one thing Flash has been good at is embedding fonts and while you can embed fonts using CSS, the little bit of research I’ve done on the subject has demonstrated that it wouldn’t necessarily be easy.

Recently, someone took me up on the challenge, and I am actually converting a Flash script to jQuery.  And it is working quite nicely, thank you very much.

Here are some tools I’ve discovered along the way.

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I just picked one of these up last Monday.  It’s pretty nice.

It is actually a bit of overkill for what I need but I was looking for the least expensive computer that would run a 64bit OS and run Exchange 2007.  This meant it had to have at least 2Gig of memory.  This has 3gig or memory.

Once I got it, I installed Windows Server 2008 64bit.  The only issues there were tracking down the drivers.  But I have the wireless card working and the video card working.  Right now that’s all I care about.

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I got this interesting question the other day.

“I am interested in pursuing a career in Computer Programming and have a question. Which would be better: to get my degree through an online college, or to teach myself. If self teaching is better how and where should I start? Any help would be greatly appreciated.”

It’s been quite a while since I’ve provided any kind of opinion of the educational system with  regards to programmers on this blog.  So I guess it’s time to bring it up again, with this new twist.

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I admit it, for the first time in years, I find myself under committed.  That is, I have less work than I have time.  So if you need someone who provides one of the several programming and web-related services below, I may be able to help you.

What you may not realize is how many different ways I may be able to help you or your organization.

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Google recently introduced the SPDY initiative where they are working toward making the web twice as fast.

If you have a public facing web site that is commercial in nature, speed has always been a factor that will drive sales, sign-ups, etc.  But we very rarely pay any attention to this, even though the solutions are relatively simple.

Now that Google is on a quest for a faster web, they have a number of ways they can achieve this.  One of those is by telling us that they will give bonus points to sites that are fast.  And that’s exactly what they’ve done.

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