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Tweet An Ignoble But Much Needed End To Web 2.0, Marked By A Party In Cyprus In May 2007 I wrote “Times are good, money is flowing, and Silicon Valley sucks” in a post about how, in my opinion, Silicon Valley was ripe for a downturn. This week, without any doubt, we got that downturn. [...]

Tweet Combine your Firefox bookmarks and IE favorites For most people, browsing is an either-or proposition: they use either Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Mozilla’s Firefox. But I’m betting there’s a bunch of people like me who find themselves spending time in both browsers, often simultaneously. The problem is, my list of Firefox bookmarks bears no [...]

Tweet Microsoft Selects Open-Source jQuery JFor Visual Studio Microsoft said Sunday that it proposes to introduce the JQuery JavaScript library with its Visual Studio developer tool suite. Over on the ASP.net blog entries by Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman just announced that Microsoft will be supporting the jQuery JavaScript library as part of its [...]

Tweet ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit to Ship with Open Source jQuery Microsoft is going to ship jQuery, the popular open source JavaScript library, as a standard, supported part of its all-important Visual Studio toolkit and ASP.NET, a little 15kb stick of dynamite. Microsoft says it won’t change the source from the main jQuery branch. It [...]

Tweet Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 A shift of focus to advanced CSS and JavaScript handling, but Dreamweaver is beginning to look old-fashioned. The secret behind Dreamweaver’s original rise to dominance as the professional’s web page authoring tool of choice was its introduction of the split view showing editable layout and code views one on top of [...]