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Dojo (an Ajax toolkit) has added the ability to make cross-domain requests using an iframe. See this and this.

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Joel follows up on his article “The Parils Of JavaSchools” (which I blogged about a while ago here) with another excellent article titled “Can Your Programming Language Do This”. Go check it out here. And now you understand something I wrote a while ago where I complained about CS students who are never taught anything […]

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So says Sleepyhead. Check it out here.

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The developer of the best windows utilities on the planet has been gobbled up by Microsoft. Probably means the end to a lot of these utilities being available for free download.

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Waterboy points to an article by Joshua Bloch of Google Research worth reading: If someone ever asks you why does this computer thing have to be so complicated, review this little piece of math niceness with them. I find that encapsulates in a nice single story the simplicity of a mathematic idea with the complexity […]

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I did a study on this in the late 90's for a customer in which I came up with pretty much the same results. Even worse, skipping the website altogether was very high on the list. So not only did they not see the flash intro they never saw the homepage: “The common use of […]

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As Sunava Dutta points out, IE7 now includes a native XMLHTTPRequest object along side support of the ActiveX object as well. In looking into a BlogChat bug with IE7 Beta with help from Sunava and others from MS we have determined that the ActiveX implementation in IE7 doesn't work exactly the same as pre-IE7 browsers. […]

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I really enjoy reading stuff like this as it reaffirms that what we're doing at SimpleFilter is just above and beyond what these big guys are doing: It really was just three weeks ago that the news came out that Verizon agreed to settle a class action suit brought against the company for being too […]

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I'm not sure what to think of this yet.

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I like some of Blaine's street magic and his previous stunts were interesting if nothing more than physical endurance or some sort of grand magic trick. With Blaine you could never tell, until now. I'm pretty sure this whole underwater thing and trying for the world record was completely setup and planned from beginning till […]

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