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Introducing WebAPI ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

August 23, 2011

Good idea, but something tells me this doesn’t have a chance in hell of being successful. You can’t come to the HTML5 party so late and then expect all other OS vendors to jump onboard with your API. As many developers are aware of, we need consistent APIs across web browsers, operating systems and devices [...]

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Fixing PHP Timezone Issue in Snow Leopard (10.6)

September 5, 2009

I always forget about my PHP development environment when I upgrade OS X.  Apple must think it’s really funny to make developers figure out what’s changed and how to fix it.  Snow Leopard brings us PHP 5.3, which apparently requires a value in the date.timezone setting or your code will produce warning messages.  Unfortunately, this [...]

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Two New Projects Launched

August 8, 2009

This week was a busy one for me.  I launched two new websites: hallornohall.com and smartcarvs.com.  Both of these sites are purely just for the heck of it.  If they get some traction, great.  If not, great. Hall Or No Hall is a co-creation with my long-time pal and business partner, Matt Thompson.  Our graphic [...]

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Thank You, Billy Hollis

May 9, 2007

This morning’s keynote entitled “Jurassic Code” by Billy Hollis was a breath of fresh air. The topic of his speech was about simplicity of software design. In making his point, he spoke strongly against Microsoft and the Visual Studio Team. He urged the audience to adopt his manifesto. People don’t want features, they want simplicity. [...]

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