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Entries for June, 2009

Franken is Seated

Finally, Al Franken is seated in the Senate after Norm Coleman concedes (following his Minnesota Supreme Court loss). It’s been half a year now, so you could say this is the epitome of a hard-fought victory. Congrats, Al!

Opera Unite Impressions

I recently downloaded the latest version of Opera in order to try out the Opera Unite service. If you haven’t heard, Unite is a web server that is hosted from within Opera (as a widget). The idea is that you can load Opera up on your PC, turn on the Unite service, and then be [...]

Progressive CSS Animation Tutorial

I’ve been focusing a lot lately on demonstrating some CSS animation techniques. That’s all fine and well, but there is definitely a need for some instructional material on the web. To that end, check out this CSS animation tutorial that I just finished. It will teach you some techniques that are useful today in a [...]

My Bonnaroo 2009 Experience

Thursday 6/11 Portugal. The Man Chairlift Friday 6/12 (Don Hertzfeldt Retrospective) Galactic moe. Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2 songs) Grizzly Bear Al Green TV on the Radio Beastie Boys Phish Public Enemy Crystal Castles Girl Talk Saturday 6/13 Jimmy Buffett/Ilo and the Coral Reefer All Stars Bon Iver of Montreal (2 songs) Wilco The Decemberists Nine [...]

jQuery Ajax Beats ASP.NET Ajax

ASP.NET Ajax is a good technology in theory, but the implementation in practice is anything but smooth. There are many little ‘quirks’ that ASP.NET Ajax does to your page; these quirks almost entirely revolve around the handling of viewstate during ajax calls. ASP.NET Ajax passes the viewstate to the server and back during things like [...]