Dylan Schiemann

It’s no surprise to people that work with me that I’ve been spending a lot of my time lately on Dojo. This week, Jesse James Garrett wrote an article on A New Approach to Web Applications, and Matthew Haughey followed up with an article about the rise of web applications. They have both written excellent […]

xml.com is running an article on hacking OpenOffice.org. In addition to the cool tips mentioned in the article, it also mentions that there will soon be support in the product for python scripting!

The EFF has created a list of endangered gizmos. Categories include extinct (i.e., dvd x-copy), endangered (iPod), and saved (vcr).

Mark Jen, while raising some valid points about compensation at Google, really misses the boat when he talks about the various employee perks Google offers. What he does not seem to get is that Google is in many ways trying to help him and other Google employees waste less time on the annoying little inconveniences […]

Firefox seems to be everywhere now. In addition to the countless obvious places such as the NY Times Ad, Don’t Click on the Blue E!, the cover story of this month’s Wired, and the rampant speculation now that several firefox developers have been hired by Google, to the more person interactions I have recently while […]

Mark Dawson has put together a nice proof of concept for a collaborative svg whiteboard.

Last month Phillip Eby wrote a pair of interesting articles on the differences between Java and Python: Python is Not Java and Java is Not Python Either

A recent npr story delves into the topic of nickelback releasing songs that are very self-similar. Mikey Smith created several mp3 files overlaying Nickelback songs. An even more interesting question for me that they touched upon during the NPR story only briefly: “Is all mainstream music really the same?” Is there really just a single […]

A few people I know have put together an interesting subscription service for fantasy sports nuts like myself called RotoPass. This service basically sells you a pass to a collection of the top fantasy sports sites at a much lower monthly rate than buying a pass to each service. It is also a pretty cool […]

Daniel Glazman is calling for a css revolution. Daniel, a long time member of the CSS WG, is basically making the point that many of the working groups have strayed too far away from solving the needs of their users, and need to focus more of their efforts on the problems that matter. Note that […]