Author Archives: Jackson Miller

daily links for Jul 08

July 9, 2008 – 2:04 am

Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq
Wire framing app that I am going to try.
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daily links for Jul 07

July 8, 2008 – 2:04 am

Pothead Ph.D. - Chronicle.com
An interesting article about drugs and higher education.
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WebMonkey New and Old at the Same Time

July 7, 2008 – 9:33 pm

Out of the blue it seems that I am getting items from WebMonkey in my RSS reader. WebMonkey is one of the sites that I first used to learn about web design / development. That was what, 9 years ago?
It seems that Wired bought WebMonkey since the WebMonkey articles are appearing in my Wired feed. [...]

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daily links for Jul 04

July 5, 2008 – 2:03 am

168 Billion reasons to stop using Google Analytics
Google Analytics + Adsense + Doubleclick = Google can take your profits.
PHP framework comparison benchmarks | AVNet Labs
It looks like Ruby on Rails is considerably faster than the Zend Framework. Interesting.
Note: Jon Wage has looked at this before and says it is not a very good comparison.
Anyvite
Why [...]

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daily links for Jul 03

July 4, 2008 – 2:03 am

168 Billion reasons to stop using Google Analytics
Google Analytics + Adsense + Doubleclick = Google can take your profits.
PHP framework comparison benchmarks | AVNet Labs
It looks like Ruby on Rails is considerably faster than the Zend Framework. Interesting.
Note: Jon Wage has looked at this before and says it is not a very good comparison.
Anyvite
Why [...]

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Testing out Intense Debate

July 3, 2008 – 9:43 am

I am testing out the Intense Debate comment system. You can help by leaving a comment here. (Heck, leave two and tell me about the experience leaving the first one).

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daily links for Jul 02

July 3, 2008 – 2:03 am

168 Billion reasons to stop using Google Analytics
Google Analytics + Adsense + Doubleclick = Google can take your profits.
PHP framework comparison benchmarks | AVNet Labs
It looks like Ruby on Rails is considerably faster than the Zend Framework. Interesting.
Note: Jon Wage has looked at this before and says it is not a very good comparison.
Anyvite
Why [...]

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Javascript Front Controller for AJAX Applications

July 3, 2008 – 12:38 am

Does anyone know if there are any implementations of a Front Controller in Javascript? This could be really handy for my work on the statzen interface.
Here are the problems I am hoping to solve:

The browser’s “back button” doesn’t typically work for AJAX interfaces. The Yahoo! UI Library has a History Manager that solves this problem, [...]

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linkblog: Jul 01

July 2, 2008 – 2:03 am

10.5.4: Why Bother? — Hotspots

“But there’s a backlash on its way and it’s already begun. If you listen closely you can hear it coming.”
I agree.

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What Apple Is Really Doing With Snow Leopard

July 1, 2008 – 8:12 am

Apple has already announced that the next version of OS X will be dubbed “Snow Leopard”. It is going to be a “no new features” release, instead focusing on speed, stability, and security. Last night I realized that is not the whole story.
Apple innovates; it is what they do and I don’t think they can’t [...]

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