Dylan Schiemann

In hearing that the next version of Java will have JavaScript built-in, I was reminded of the old evolution of man t-shirts promoting soccer. For those unfamiliar, the shirt started with a football player crouched down on the left side, progressing to various apes/monkeys standing more and more upright, finally evolving to a fully upright […]

If Atlas shrugged, would anyone care?

While attending Evan Williams’s BayChi talk, an audience member asked why Odeo is focusing on audio and not video. I started thinking about this, and came up with some thoughts about content that I doubt are original or profound, but worth mentioning. Video content is most useful for something that is best seen with real […]

Not that I did not know this already, but QuickBooks is amazingly bad. And amazingly it is even worse for the Mac than it was for Windows. I wanted to upgrade our old Windows version to the new Mac Pro version. So I bought and installed it. As usual on the Mac, the installation process […]

I shake my head in disbelief when I see an article with a topic that interests me ( JavaScript and errors ), only to stop reading when the author, Joshua Gitlin, insults the target audience in the first paragraph with pedantic disrespect to a large developer community of which I am a proud member: “Now, […]

Google acquires Dodgeball. In unrelated news, Google acquires rights to Baseketball, and has patent for tags rejected over confusion due to prior art. And you thought webdev tattoo humor was bad.

The Jot hackathon, Don’t try this at work, hReview, and of course, Pac-Man turns 25.

Why is it that we cannot seem to just let something be cool? Why must we hype it to death with an awful name? Are we that desperate as people to latch onto anything that seems like the next fad? Are there that few cool things out there? Why can we not learn from the […]

I wrote some developer notes recently on the Dojo XML to JS Parser.

John Dvorak’s latest article, The Dumbing Down of America, explains why I wear t-shirts containing phrases such as “No I will not fix your computer” and “I see dumb people”.