Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
The team from Amazon Web Services (AWS) came to Toronto (at the MaRS Building)to show us their stuff, and demo’s from some local folks showing the “what”, “where”, and “how” to their use of AWS in real life. (no admission Continue reading The Amazon Web Services (AWS) StartUp event in Toronto
Divs instead of tables – to paraphrase : “Use the div, Luke.” or, if you do have a list of some kind, then maybe you should be using <ol>/<ul> and <li>’s rather than all the div’s? see A CSS layout Continue reading CCS & Ajax Links for March 24th
Via Michael Geist comes word that an fable in “Hill Times (a weekly newspaper for Ottawa’s “savvy political and government insider”) written by Michael Eisen (Microsoft Canada’s Chief Legal Officer) misleads in the service of the “Prentice Canadian DMCA” act Continue reading Microsoft Misleads on Copyright Reform
extisp.icio.us 2008 generated by extisp.icio.us based on my Del.icio.us bookmarks, and added to the flickr extispicious pool This is the 4th year I’ve done this.
In a lazyweb “fools seldom differ” moment, my post The Real Reason for Increased productivity behind Scripting Languages (commenting on a XKCD comic) has been riffed on by Bart of “Moves on Rails” : The new programmers excuse for slacking Continue reading The Real Reason for no Increased productivity behind Scripting Languages, reveled.
This is what is Weird Wonderful Web for January 26th through January 27th: Still, or even more, relevant today: The Heavenly Jukebox from The Atlantic Monthly article on digital music from 2000. (no longer locked behind the paywall) – business Continue reading Weird Wonderful Web Links for January 27th