I decided to upgrade my Yahoo! Photos to the beta version (which apparently won’t be in beta for too much longer), and I must say, the interface is really slick. Tons of drag-and-drop solutions (though I find double clicking to view a photo a little disconcerting). I was really excited to try the new photo... […]

There’s been whispers about this for a while, but it looks like some people actually got their act together and decided to go for it. Now, you can get a WebKit-based browser for the PC: GetWebKit. The browser’s actual name is Swift, and is based off of Apple’s WebKit (the same technology behind Safari). I... […]

On my trek to California, I’ve been taking a lot of photos. Naturally, I want to share these photos with my friends and family back home, so I’ve been bouncing back and forth between a few different online photo sharing sites. My problem is that there isn’t a single one that meets all of my... […]

I just came across this article and wanted to blog about it, since it highlights the differences between Yahoo! and Google in terms of engineering and development. This was something I experienced firsthand interviewing at both companies, and it’s nice to have an article to point people to when they ask me about the differences.... […]

A little while back, I blogged about Microsoft’s big steps forward recently, one of which being the release of Visual Studio Express, a scaled-down version of Visual Studio. I recently decided to download the Visual Web Developer part of Visual Studio Express and I’m absolutely ecstatic with it. I was able to get a simple... […]

I’m always interested to see what happens when technology starts spilling over into the mainstream press. More often than not, there are things are missed in the translation, and sometimes, there are just gross errors. The most recent falling into this category is the Technology & You column entitled, Look Out, Microsoft Office in the... […]

Looks like Internet Explorer 7′s latest beta is now available. Reading through the release notes I discovered this little gem: Multiple Auto Refresh Applications May Hang IE7 — If you leave open a number of applications that refresh themselves, the system may hang and require a hard reset. This issue is caused by a known... […]

Working on some code earlier this week, I discovered that Opera doesn’t fire the load event when navigating to a page using the back button. This means anything set to fire onload doesn’t get executed…so much for good coding practices. But this issue appears to intermittently happen on other browsers too, notably Firefox and Safari... […]

Comparing values against null is a very popular thing to do in JavaScript, but I fear that typically it’s overused and used in situations when it’s completely inappropriate. Consider the following: if (sText != null) { var aParts = sText.split(","); } Suppose this is in a function that has sText as an argument. The intent... […]

I’ve been using the great JavaScriptLint tool recently to go over my code. One of the errors that it typically flags is comparison with null, 0, or an empty string, which it says should not be done with == or != because of type coercion. So I dutifully went along and changed all !=null to... […]