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If you’re into web development and you need to know why something isn’t quite working under Internet Explorer (vs. say Firefox), then check out the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta 3. Install it - it works for both IE 6 and IE 7 and man - it saved my life a number of times (though [...]

In my never ending search for cool looking website designs (free ones I might add), I came across a cool site today called the Open Source Web Design (http://www.oswd.org). The site is exactly what the name is all about. It’s a collection of website designs that anyone can download free of charge. So if [...]

I’ve been dumbfounded with a javascript issue under IE which doesn’t manifest itself under FireFox. Here’s the premise - I have a page which has a single XMLHttpRequest object making calls to the server for additional information in the background. The XMLHttpRequest object requests a URL from a queue of URLs and then the callback [...]

I’ve been working on creating a database architecture at work and while I was at, I had decided to create a simple web front end to the architecture using PHP and Oracle. Along the way, one of my pages took a bit too long to load so a coworker of mine suggested in a kidding [...]

I thought I’ve seen it all but apparently I haven’t. Check out this site - (http://www.sea-code.com/). It’s software outsourcing on a cruise ship parked 3.1 miles off the coast of LA. They’re far enough away to not be in US waters thus they aren’t subject to US tax laws - the 600+ programmers make more [...]