iPhone activation servers overwhelmed?

I am upgrading my iPhone 3G to the 3.0 software but am getting this:..

Use case: SSL and email

Interesting article in the NYT about using SSL for email. It’s an option for Gmail which I turned on some time ago...

Imagine CSS evolved as a programming language

I’ve gotten reasonably good with CSS, but I often find myself feeling that certain concepts are conflated or a bit ad hoc...

“Built-in” jQuery (and how IE can get some dev cred)

I’ve mentioned in the past that jQuery is an API as much as it is a set of functions...

What is a “programmer”?

Phil Haack has a nice exploration of what it means to “program”. As long as I’ve been doing this — since the early 90’s — there has always been the promise that “programming” will go away...

64-bitness: what it is and what it ain’t

Very interesting post from Rico Mariani on the why’s and why-not’s of doing 64-bit applications, specifically Visual Studio...

The cloud! The cloud!

Everything in technology is an abstraction of something else. The browser is an abstraction, the keyboard is an abstraction, C# is an abstraction; they all sit on top of other things and hide the details, with the goal of making you productive...

More jQuery performance tips: 11 keystrokes buy you 10x

Dave Ward has a very extensive post (with benchmarks) on jQuery selector optimization...

Leopard : Snow Leopard :: Vista : Windows 7

I’m excited about the new announcements from Apple today. Can’t wait to update my iPhone to the 3...

URL shortener for ASP.net

If you use Twitter, you are familiar with URL shortening services like bit...