Tag Archives: Microsoft

Performance, Rendering Improvements Coming in IE9

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Fuzzy

With IE’s market share continuing its decline, Microsoft is working overtime to catch up to the current generation of browsers. If everything Microsoft showed with IE9 at their Professional Developers Conference comes to pass, they may be able to stem … Continue reading →

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Google Builds JavaScript SVG Library for IE

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Fuzzy

From Slashdot, in the making-IE-suck-less department, there’s a project up on Google Code called svgweb that will add SVG support to browsers that don’t have it baked in. Which is the long hand way of saying it fixes Internet Explorer. … Continue reading →

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Reboot…Reboot…Reboot…

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Fuzzy

And now, ladies and gentlemen, a rant on rebooting. Paul Ramsey’s blog Clever Elephant had a great post recently titled No One Ever Got Fired for Buying Linux. This particular bit stuck in my head: Did you buy an expensive … Continue reading →

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Make Smarter – PGCon, Google Earth Trek, and More

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Fuzzy

PGCon – the PostgreSQL Conference – wrapped up in May, and they’ve posted many of their session online for free, including slide shows and videos. The links are in the notes for each session/tutorial. The videos are hosted on FOSSLC, … Continue reading →

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Google Maps and Microsoft….Bing?

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Fuzzy

A couple of major announcements from the big web mapping API folks came out recently. First, Google has launched a Maps Data API, which is what it sounds like – you can store map data  in the cloud and retrieve … Continue reading →

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