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  • Book Review: HTML Utopia

    Every once in a while you read a technical book that has a profound impact on what you do from a day to day basis. In 2004 I had a web designer friend of mine look at my personal web site to give me advice on something I was trying...
  • SOAP: The Betamax of Web Services?

    Whoa ! Betamax Tapes ! by shinnygogo used under Creative Commons I think most people know about the format wars between VHS and Betamax that took place in the 1980s and early 1990s even if you were not around during the that time. It has been mentioned a lot over...
  • Computer manuals

    I recently ordered a copy of OS/2 2.1 for Windows on the Internet swap meet know as eBay. I have been playing around with virtual machines quite a bit, since I did the Thirsty Developer Podcast interview on Hyper-V with my pal Beth Humphreys (AKA Server Girl). When I saw...
  • Crayons and Creativity

    Crayola Lincoln Logs by laffy4k used under Creative Commons On the last episode of The Thirsty Developer podcast Dave and I did an interview with Josh Holmes and Mike Labriola (listen to the MP3). I casually mentioned a theory that I have had for a number of years, so I...
  • Architecture by Baseball: Jargon

    This is the sixth in a series of articles about how we can learn about software architecture by studying and comparing it to the sport of Baseball. This series was inspired by the book Management by Baseball. Baseball Jargon Last Saturday I watched a baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers...

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