Jonathan Schwartz: Ex Sun CEO Blogs about “What I Couldn’t Say…”
In a position of leadership Jonathan Schwartz, the ex CEO of Sun Microsystems, couldn’t say what he wanted. Now that he is an “ex”, he is telling some great “war stories”.
Anyone thinking of working in tech, working in tech… developers, managers, CTOs, CEOs … should read this blog.
Exploring the web with Pivot
Not everyday do we see interesting new views of the web. I just saw the following video, and thought it was an interesting concept. Microsoft Live Labs presents their Pivot. You can check out their site, Pivot, and try to download the application (I didn’t have any luck).
Help: IE7 won’t load my JSON but IE8 will – Using a JSON Validator
I just ran into this issue, and found surprisingly little documentation. My JSON request wasn’t returning. I was using the jQuery “getJSON” method to send the request out. Nothing was coming back.
MIT Professor Dan Nocera: Presentation on Global Energy Consumption and a Possible Solution
Lucid and easy to understand lecture on global energy consumption, and our future. MIT Professor Dan Nocera has integrated data from multiple disciplines to a single cohesive presentation. Useful statistics on the various sources and consumers of energy. Watch this, it’s worth it:
Dan Nocera: Personalized Energy from PopTech on Vimeo.
Summary
Leverage the energy density in water, to solve the world’s energy problems. MIT teams have artificially created photosynthesis.
Is this a viable solution?
Help: How do I announce a new website?
We launch websites every month or two for clients, and make many website updates. What are the best ways to tell the “internet” that your site is up, and ready to be checked out? I’m going to focus on the free options, as I find anything that costs money sketchy (especially with regard to listing a site).
We can divide this into a few categories:
- Search Engines
- Social Networking
- Peer Sites
- News Aggregators
Google executives convicted in Italy, because of uploaded content!
According to an article on the BBC site, Google bosses convicted in Italy, three Google executives were convicted because they “allowed” someone to upload a video of an autistic kid being bullied.
From the article:
The Google employees were accused of breaking Italian law by allowing the video to be posted online.
Judge Oscar Magi absolved the three of defamation but convicted them of privacy violations.
The UK’s former Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said the case gave privacy laws a “bad name”.
The three employees, Peter Fleischer, David Drummond and George De Los Reyes, received suspended six-month sentences, while a fourth defendant, product manager Arvind Desikan, was acquitted.
David Drummond, chief legal officer at Google and one of those convicted, said he was “outraged” by the decision.
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The Death Blow to IE6?
Web developers are constantly fighting the IE6 battle.
We don’t want to support it, but all too often IE6 represents 10% of our client’s visitors — and you can’t tell a client they can’t talk to 10% of their visitors. If it’s an ecommerce site that could be a 10% decrease in sales.
Recently many large sites have announced the looming demise of Internet Explorer 6. Site’s such as Google Docs, Google Sites, YouTube (surprise, a Google company), and many others. Rumors are spreading this will include Gmail, Google Calendar, and other Google products too (maybe the sacred Google Search).
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IE6: Graphical Illustration of Problems with CSS
Posted on flickr, css mess, is one artist’s (atzu) homage to the problems all web developers face in IE6. As the creator says:
By the way, I wanted to thank all these major sites as Youtube, Facebook, Google that are not supporting Internet Explorer 6 anymore.
– atzu
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Google Buzz: Turn off the Buzz
A few days ago Google buzz launched. This included automatically starting up Google buzz in your Gmail account, and automatically setting your followers.
While nice of Google (and scary), automatically assuming Gmail users would want Google buzz to share who you are following with your followers — was a poor assumption. › Continue reading
WordPress: How to get the Slug of the page
When working with WordPress templates, we frequently find ourselves trying to get certain information about a page. It bothers me how “non” object orientated page information is in WordPress, but those are the hurdles you need to get over as a web developer.
Today I wanted to get the “Slug” (or the last part of a Permalink for a page). › Continue reading
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