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Learning jQuery
Over the past month or so I’ve been having an affair of sorts. No, not that kind of affair. I’ve just been splitting my time between English Rules and my new techie blog, Learning jQuery. jQuery is a...
View ArticleOverzealous Comment Spam Detection
It was recently brought to my attention that some legitimate comments have been captured by my spam trap and held hostage. Unfortunately, because I had never checked the junk-mail bin on my blogging...
View ArticleWriting a Book
After three months of laboring in relative silence, I’m able to explain publicly why the activity on this site has diminished so much. I’m writing a book. Now, before anyone gets too excited, I should...
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One Book Out, One in the Hopper
After seven long months of writing, reading, coding, and learning, learning, learning, I finally have something to show for it. Jonathan Chaffer and I just had our first book published. When we started...
View ArticleEverything Is Broken
If you’re trying to look at previous entries on this blog and you’re being thwarted at every turn, it’s because I broke this site tonight while trying to upgrade it. If you’ve managed to find a...
View ArticleEverything Is Fine, Mostly
It’s probably not worth mentioning (how’s that for an opening phrase?), but I managed to fix the broken stuff on the English Rules site within a half hour of sending out the entry with the exaggerated...
View ArticleHelp for the Weary Consumer
I started to write this entry back in January, thinking that these few web sites could be helpful to people. But it has been languishing in draft mode ever since, because I never knew what to say about...
View ArticleStaying Up Late
This week I took a break from my usual freelance projects to work on a couple web sites that are a little closer to home—one for my wife and the other for a friend. Because they were both rush jobs,...
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Crickets and Cobwebs
This little blog has been terribly quiet lately, some parts of it more than others. The writing guide section has been the most neglected, not having seen a new entry in two and a half years. A few of...
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Calling All iPhone Users
I finally got my very own iPhone this weekend, and I’m very excited about it. A lot of my geek friends are talking about the Android-based phones now and some are even acting like the iPhones are a bit...
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Augmented Audio: Living with In-Ear Technology
As I headed out to the gym the other day, with my progressive-lens glasses, high-tech crutches, and stormtrooper stabilizing boot, it occurred to me that I looked a little like a cyborg—which got me...
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