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Google Announces the Launch of Google Chrome… Tomorrow

Published on 1 Sep 2008 at 7:45 pm.
Filed under Web stuff.

Today Google the launch of the open-source Google Web browser entitled Google Chrome. Oddly enough, this announcement was set a bit early as the browser will not be made available to the public until tomorrow. One might wonder why Google would enter into the browser market. To paraphrase a famous Homer Simpson quote: Google, how […]

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Monumental week for the Web

Published on 26 Jan 2008 at 12:47 am.
Filed under Web stuff.

I cannot think of a week for the Web in all of the years that I have been a Web developer. Let’s go over the highlights. Ten years of Mozilla — I know that this is relatively minor, but it is worth pointing out that it has been 10 years since the birth of Mozilla […]

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CSS letter spacing oddities

Published on 12 Nov 2007 at 8:43 pm.
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While trying to help my friend Jeff help work on his sister’s web site I explained to him that he had a text-align justify rule. For a lark I suggested if he wanted to keep that going he could always use letter-spacing/word-spacing. While looking for a URL to send to him I discovered that word/letter-spacing […]

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Ybug

Published on 25 Jul 2007 at 10:23 pm.
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It seems that Yahoo has released a new Firefox extension for developers called Yslow. The purpose of this extension is to help rate the performance of a Web site. It does this by extending on the popular Firebug extension. A meta-extension if you will. While I deeply appreciate the work of the Yahoo development team […]

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I still live!

Published on 8 Apr 2007 at 9:11 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under Comics,Life,Web stuff.

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted on here. I’ve had quite a bit happen in that time frame. Back in November I started as a full time Web developer for Brabon Justice International. This makes me one of lead developers behind igniteworldwide, Up Your Image, and IHCPR. Ignite Worldwide is our custom Web […]

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Productive day for the Web

Published on 18 Oct 2006 at 11:55 pm.
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Microsoft officially released Internet Explorer 7 to the world. Adobe has released a beta version of Flash Player 9 for Linux I finally got Peter-Paul Koch’s new book ppk on JavaScript in the mail. 🙂 Okay, so that last one might not be that important to many, but I’ve been looking forward to it. It […]

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Browser round-up

Published on 9 Oct 2006 at 8:02 pm.
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It looks like the month of October is going to be a big month in the world of Web Development. Microsoft has announced that IE7 is will be coming this month, and Firefox 2.0 has reached release candidate 2 and is rumored to have the official release this month. Microsoft has announced that IE7 will […]

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Thesis is done, learning is not

Published on 31 Aug 2006 at 8:38 pm.
Filed under Life,Web stuff.

So last Friday I defended my thesis on the “Development of Computational Tools to determine the effects of minimum free energy on mRNA translation” to complete my masters degree in Computational Science. I must say, it feels very weird to be done with school. I am officially no longer a student! Now that I am […]

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Updates for this Web site

Published on 6 Jul 2006 at 12:25 am.
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Sorry for not posting lately, but I have been backed up by working on things in my free time and have been catching up on my reading/watching things (e.g., the Fantastic Four movie). That said, since my last post, I have updated the Web site a little bit. They are: New look — I decided […]

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Happy CSS Naked Day!

Published on 5 Apr 2006 at 12:47 am.
Filed under Web stuff.

The point of today is to show off your <body>. For those unfamiliar with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), CSS files are how web savy Web masters control the look of their site. There are different rules of thought the order which different sections of your site should be displayed (e.g. should navigation go before the […]

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