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Entries from August 2006

Is a view the same as a hit?

August 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Cuban is pretty much right on the money here: Today though, with all the excitement about rich media, whether its video or audio, you hear and read all about views and listens. Which leads me to the question: Just what is a view or listen ? For podcasts, is a listen a download ? I […]

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Curb Your Enthusiasm Back For A 6th Season

August 10th, 2006 · No Comments

I've been waiting for this announcement for a long time. Finally the greatest comedy show returns for what is likely the last season: Larry David has decided to bring “Curb Your Enthusiasm'' back to HBO for a sixth, 10-episode season. Continuation of the series had been somewhat up in the air since last season's finale […]

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AJAX / JSRS / Google Maps / Real-time Network Monitoring Part 3

August 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

See previous articles Part 1 and Part 2. Implemented some changes that are available in the Google Maps API v2. Apparently Google made significant speed improvements so that should help when network nodes update. Also double-click to zoom and continous zoom are now enabled.

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Cross Domain XMLHttpRequests using an IFrame Proxy

August 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

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

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Can Your Programming Language Do This

August 1st, 2006 · No Comments

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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