O’Reilly: Inside RIA

I'll admit it. My husband, Steve, has a severe case of gadgetosis. Because of this affliction, we've invested some of our savings in a company called Microvision. At first, to me, this company was nothing more than a good investment -- after all, who in this industry hasn't wanted a projector so small and light you could stash it in your purse -- but now I find myself excited by the prospects of what the devices they make (wearable displays, vehicle displays, and pico-projectors) could mean for me as a developer.

One thing I've noticed lately is that it's sometimes hard to find basic beginner to intermediate level information on many of the subjects that we, as developers, care about. Whether it's pointing a newbie to a "how to get started...

In the past, I've talked about the advantages of telecommuting. Today, I'd like to talk about the mechanics of telecommuting. Specifically, how to communicate when none of the members of the project are colocated. In the past, I've participated in...

A couple of months ago, I got a brand new Dell laptop. To future-proof it, I ordered it with enough RAM that it needed 64-bit Windows to fully use all that muscle. So, once my in-house IT department (AKA my wonderful husband) installed Windows 7 on it, I fired it up for the first time and went through the process of setting it up to connect to the servers at work. Oops! I immediately had a problem. The Citrix client that the company I work for provides for download and installation won't even install to 64-bit Windows, and according to Server Guy (yes, that's his official title), the 64-bit clients it does make require an upgrade to the servers.

Last time I talked about CSS on this blog, I got a lot of feedback, and let me tell you, I'm all about the attention, so I thought I'd give my take on the CSS vs. tables debate. I've...

One of the things I love about what we do is that it's possible to do it as effectively from the comfort of your living room as from an office. Working from home makes it possible for me to have...

Lots of RIA's use web services, and one of the more tedious parts of writing a service can be looping through all of the rows in a recordset, adding nodes, setting their attributes, etc. I spend a lot of time trawling...

There she is in the corner. We all see her, but so far we haven't talked about her.  She's Henrietta, the 600 lb. gorilla.  You know the one I'm talking about—the fact that, of all the regular bloggers at...

Several years ago, I interviewed for a job in the Web development department at WorldComm.  They asked me what my favorite HTML editor was, and I said "Notepad."  They strongly approved of that answer, and I think that was the...

"Amy, every sketch doesn't have to be the Sistine Chapel." Brent Funderburk, 1991 Brent Funderburk was my favorite professor when I was at Mississippi State, and the reason I switched from being an architecture major to being an art...