The New York Times is reporting that "high" levels of mercury are showing up at many of the city's sushi joints: Recent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants that at most of them, a regular diet of six pieces a week would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental...

The New York Times is reporting that "high" levels of mercury are showing up at many of the city's sushi joints: Recent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants that at most of them, a regular diet of six pieces a week would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental...

A ton of activity today around the announcement that the Internet Explorer team will be introducing a big huge hack with IE8 to allow it to function like a normal modern web browser. Mo's got a better idea: In real terms, though, it's not worth the effort. Release a version of IE 6 [that] can be installed standalone and let the tiny handful of...

A ton of activity today around the announcement that the Internet Explorer team will be introducing a big huge hack with IE8 to allow it to function like a normal modern web browser. Mo's got a better idea: In real terms, though, it's not worth the effort. Release a version of IE 6 [that] can be installed standalone and let the tiny handful of...

About a year ago, I spent the better part of a day making this site's layout entirely em based and set on a vertical baseline grid... No, I mean, everything is em based: font-sizes, borders, margins, padding, widths, everything. Each individual value in the stylesheet that specifies a vertical measurement was manually calculated based on the...

About a year ago, I spent the better part of a day making this site's layout entirely em based and set on a vertical baseline grid... No, I mean, everything is em based: font-sizes, borders, margins, padding, widths, everything. Each individual value in the stylesheet that specifies a vertical measurement was manually calculated based on the...

The problem with the REST folks these days is that they are just hell-bent on having constructive conversation all the time. This piece should have been the pudding-pack that started the cafeteria food fight but, no, everyone decides to concentrate on the one concrete critique of WS-* mentioned in the entire rant, kicking off a level-headed...

The problem with the REST folks these days is that they are just hell-bent on having constructive conversation all the time. This piece should have been the pudding-pack that started the cafeteria food fight but, no, everyone decides to concentrate on the one concrete critique of WS-* mentioned in the entire rant, kicking off a level-headed...

A big part of the product I'm working on entails producing PDFs of business reports. The product is completely web-based and all reports are available via the web but PDF export is necessary for a couple of reasons: The reports must go to print and must look professional when printed. Reports are often sent via email to people who don't have...

A big part of the product I'm working on entails producing PDFs of business reports. The product is completely web-based and all reports are available via the web but PDF export is necessary for a couple of reasons: The reports must go to print and must look professional when printed. Reports are often sent via email to people who don't have...

I haven't been paying very much attention to the WS-* vs. REST debate for some time but this SD Times piece by WSO2's Sanjiva Weerawarana was just insulting: Which one is it? WS-* or REST? It turns out that both camps are lying through their teeth about how "easy" it is to build distributed business applications using their favorite...

I haven't been paying very much attention to the WS-* vs. REST debate for some time but this SD Times piece by WSO2's Sanjiva Weerawarana was just insulting: Which one is it? WS-* or REST? It turns out that both camps are lying through their teeth about how "easy" it is to build distributed business applications using their favorite...

Dreamhost had something of a hissy fit because they can't figure out a solid model for deploying simple Rails apps quickly and reliably with minimal configuration (i.e. like PHP). That's because no such solution exists. There are many deployment configurations and every one of them have trade offs in simplicity, correctness, reliability,...

Dreamhost had something of a hissy fit because they can't figure out a solid model for deploying simple Rails apps quickly and reliably with minimal configuration (i.e. like PHP). That's because no such solution exists. There are many deployment configurations and every one of them have trade offs in simplicity, correctness, reliability,...

The Google Docs editing UI is quite adequate, export to PDF / OpenOffice / Word is wonderful, and the collaboration stuff is strong but why cannot we produce modestly sane HTML or attach custom stylesheets? Joho the Blog (in March 2007): I've been using Google Docs to write documents that are collaborative. It's a good first gen product, and I...