http://blogs.valpo.edu/rorelup A place for me to put my thoughts Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:45:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Saw this come across the news feed today and thought it was pretty neat. https://bespin.mozilla.com/ Pretty cool concept that I hope the flesh out. http://blogs.valpo.edu/rorelup/2009/02/24/bespin-cool-editor-project-from-mozilla/ While checking out the new release of the PHP extension for Aptana I came across this cool project - PHP.js which is looking to recreate PHP functions in Javascript. Now while it's better to just handle these things with proper JS, it is nice to use when you already ... http://blogs.valpo.edu/rorelup/2008/12/15/phpjs-a-cool-project-recreating-php-function-is-javascript/ Just saw this interesting article on what Facebook was doing to help increase the performance of their memcache servers. Because of the outstanding talk I saw from Brian Shire of Facebook back at PHP|Tek 2007 I at least understood what was being discussed here. Though understanding the ... http://blogs.valpo.edu/rorelup/2008/12/14/a-great-example-of-opensource-at-work/ Well since you can get Flex Builder for free, why not have some free training to go along with this as well. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/ That came across my reader the other day but I forgot about it so now it is shared. :) http://blogs.valpo.edu/rorelup/2008/12/11/flex-training/ The Future of Web Apps Conferences just happened recently, and they have videos up of the talks. London Talks NYC Talks Great things to watch when you have time though it can be a bit of an overload. http://blogs.valpo.edu/rorelup/2008/11/12/future-of-web-apps-conference-videos/ Today while reading a cool nice article about someone researching a bunch of domains he found for some marketing campaign, he mentioned this cool tool. http://www.domaintools.com/reverse-ip/ I'd used similar services before but what was so cool about this one was you could get an entire list of the domains hosted at a ... http://blogs.valpo.edu/rorelup/2008/11/06/cool-tool/ Updated Link because the previous one was removed. It must be .Net that gave it the killer tracking power. With Silverlight they could even bring this super powerful app to the web. Got to love Hollywood :) Though I figure most people who program in a Microsoft language sound like this. ... http://blogs.valpo.edu/rorelup/2008/10/10/never-underestimate-the-power-of-vb/ I'm hear, sitting in the first session. Pretty good talk about looking at accessibility for people with disabilities. Lots of stuff we are doing wrong :) I'm up next after this, added examples from the last talk. Freaking out as always but it's only 45 minutes long ... http://blogs.valpo.edu/rorelup/2008/10/06/at-highedweb-2008/ Well it's been blowing up on the web which is no big surprise. I've had more time to play with it and have a few more observations from myself and others on the web. More after the jump The biggest thing I think was that Google was using an old version ... http://blogs.valpo.edu/rorelup/2008/09/04/more-on-google-chrome/ Google Chrome was released today. It's nice to see the rumor finally become true. I've had about an hour of playing with it and this is what I can see. Plus Based on Webkit which has a lot of CSS3 features so that gives us a place to play with ... http://blogs.valpo.edu/rorelup/2008/09/02/google-chrome/