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Comment on A VRBO Review by Brian

Brian — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:46:57 +0000

VRBO only lets the property owner post the reviews they want. This makes for a very poor user experience because they cannot get the full picture of the various rentals. When I was ripped off y a property owner in Big Bear, Ca last year, I left a scathing review in an effort to warn others. When my review was not listed, I complained. VRBO told me that the owner chooses what reviews to post. Obviously, they would not post mine. I recommend everyone use caution when dealing with vrbo.com and homeaway.com (same company)

Comment on This post “originally written” in Objective C. Prove me wrong. by Michelle Lån

Michelle Lån — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:11:37 +0000

I’m not really surprised. Apple has always been over-protective with their products ever since. But it has come a long way from back in the days when personal computers were still new. On this note I like how silverlight has come out in the way that you can use lots of languages to develop on it. It’s one way of inviting more developers to try it and not have to learn another programming language all over.

Comment on 6 Reasons eBooks should be Cheaper than pBooks by Joshua Thomas Zytkiewicz

Joshua Thomas Zytkiewicz — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:02:07 +0000

Good post, I especially like the quote from Ms. Reidy. It shows how out of touch some people and businesses are.

I wonder if there’s some truth to the opposition to the $10 price point though. If the average price of a new hardcover is $25 does that mean that publishers are spending $15 on the physical product? I doubt it since you can self publish single copies for around $25. With their volume and owning the production facilities it probably costs them less than $10 a book. That leaves at least $5 (or more) of decreased revenue from a $10 price point that’s not offset by the less expensive format.

Comment on O’Reilly Tools of Change by Dana M. Hughes

Dana M. Hughes — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:16:56 +0000

I bought this device because I read a lot of books. I don’t read any of the best sellers, I read mostly the paranormal romance books and Sci Fi. The reason I bought this device instead of the Sony electronic reader is that the books are downloaded directly to the device. You don’t need to be at your computer. So , if you are on the road, you can download a book without a computer.
Another reason I bought the Kindle is that I have a iMac. The Sony reader needs a PC. The only thing I found is a drawback of the Kindle is that some of the books I would like to have downloaded are not offered in Kindle format yet. I have to click on the ‘request to publisher’ and hope that it will be made available in a reasonable amount of time before I resort to buying the book at a store.

Comment on Keeping Your Sanity When Using Lookup Tables by richard

richard — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:25:31 +0000

Good article, Well Wisher. The author brings up some good points, but misses the boat and throws around a bunch of nonsense issues too.

Regarding referential integrity, my solution #4 above involves no relationship between the data tables and the Choices table. The Choices table merely provides the values to provide in the UI.

If those choices themselves need to become “things” (with attributes of their own and relationships back to your other entities), it makes more sense to give them a table of their own, a surrogate primary key, etc.

Comment on Keeping Your Sanity When Using Lookup Tables by Well Wisher

Well Wisher — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:59:36 +0000

You need to read this:
http://www.projectdmx.com/dbdesign/lookup.aspx

Comment on Rube Goldberg and Scripting Languages by Govert

Govert — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:48:32 +0000

If you’re still stuck, you might like to try the IKVM.NET runtime, which allows you to run the Java code on .Net. It should work fine with ExcelDna (and if not, I’d be happy to help).

Comment on Spoiled by Google Calendar by Landon

Landon — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:07:35 +0000

My solution is a bit simpler, if not quite so elegant…Michelle keeps the home calendar and unless I’m deployed somewhere, I’m home by 1700, M-F. Still, we haven’t quite gotten rid of the “sync” issues, but again, we have a little bit different method. When people ask me if I’m free, I call Michelle and ask…better yet, by now everybody knows to bypass me completely. Maybe I’m just lazy, but hey, works for us.

Comment on The Silk Icon SVG Challenge by Steve Iannopollo

Steve Iannopollo — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:18:19 +0000

I had need of just such a thing today, that is using something that looked like a silk icon but needed to be scaled up. So I did a few today and put them into a git repository (http://github.com/siannopollo/vector-icons/tree/master). I may do more if I need them, but it’s a start! Enjoy!

Comment on Finding my old homes… by richard

richard — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:43:29 +0000

I’ll definitely be sharing once the list is a little more complete…

Comment on Finding my old homes… by landon

landon — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:45:54 +0000

so send me the link…pretty sure some of them would show up on mine as well.

Comment on Finding my old homes… by Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:08:15 +0000

What, no sharing?

Comment on I fixed it! by landon

landon — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:47:28 +0000

And here I thought you were waiting until I got home…

Comment on I fixed it! by Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:58:47 +0000

Welcome back to the web!

Comment on static.google.com by richard

richard — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:29:30 +0000

Gil, I am!

At my job, we have several apps dependent on Prototype and Scriptaculous, so I swapped them from my own static-file server to Google.

I also switched to CacheFile for Ext Js, but it’s a little slow for my tastes, I may switch back until someone with a better CDN picks it up.