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Lot of talk about Ajax being a pull (poll) only technique that has its limitations. This is true but there are also implications for using open http socket connections as well. I've made comments over there and quoted here: Brent and I thought of using an open connection instead of a polling connection when thinking […]

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Another Ajax type web chat has popped up on my radar. Its called ARSC (A Really Simple Chat) and can be found here. Looks like web chat apps are going to be the thing to do to show off Ajax. Makes sense. Way back a few years ago Brent and I wanted to create something […]

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Since the Ajax hype we have noticed an increased interest in BlogChat. Lace is a similar type thing you can find here. I suppose Brent and I should spruce up BlogChat a bit and bring it into the current year. We really haven't touched the code in over two years so its due for a […]

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If you can't wait years for a new Mattamy home checkout this for a recently new Mattamy home.

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This “Software Development” category hasn't had a lot of activity so here is a decent little article on commenting code (via The Farm)

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This is a totally unacceptable suggestion by Microsoft to do Remote Debugging Across Domains. I actually just want to debug while not being part of any domain at all. Here is the ridiculous suggestion as found here: Remote debugging with the default transport uses DCOM. DCOM security prevents remote debugging across Windows NT domains and across the public […]

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Two or three years ago a business partner and I researched software to do speech to text in order to index audio from video files for a company we were looking to start. The technology was available but expensive. I remember discussing this with Adam Curry about a year ago when he was looking for […]

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