December 2007
24 posts
What a difference a year makes... →
Well, it’s getting to be the end of 2007 and I’m still writing 2006 on my checks. Frankly, I can’t believe that the year has come and gone so fast with so many interesting advancements and happenings in the programming space. My Rails skills increased and yet my coverage of it on this blog diminished. (I still have 7 unfinished and unpublished articles on Rails 2.0 that seem… well, not interesting...
IE8 passes Acid 2. My Nerd Wood is Showing. →
Well, I’m about to do backflips. If I had a dollar for every g-d IE hack that I’ve had to write in my life I’d be millionaire. The IE blog has let drop the fact that they are passing the Acid2 smiley face test in standards mode. It’s a great first step and will help bring them back into the limelight as a leader in this market. IE has had a hard time of it lately and not without merit. They rested...
ASP.NET has an MVC pattern... almost. →
I only say almost because it’s not really released. It’s just a hint of the Framework that the asp.net team is working on. I haven’t had very much time to play with it but in the short time that I did try it out, I found that testing with the new context interface was a welcome addition and that the pieces are getting there for a very nice implementation of the MVC pattern.
Some “icky” areas for...