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What Are 5 Companies You’d Like To Work For?

I’m curious. If you could work anywhere, what would be the top 5 companies/organizations at the top of your list?

Coming to a theatre near you in 2009, 2010 and 2011

Every once in a while I compile a list of upcoming movies, both for my own curiosity as well as a service to others. Below you’ll find Superhero, Sci-Fi, Fantasy Novel, Video Game, and TV show adaptations as well as Remakes, Sequels, and more, coming soon to a theatre near you!
Filtered from 2631 titles slated [...]

Have JavaScript, Will Travel

The technology of the web is maturing. However slowly and clumsily, it is maturing. The web of today looks nothing like the web of ten years ago. Most notable are the advent and widespread adoption of Web Standards, and more recently the mushrooming popularity of JavaScript due largely to Web 2.0 mania.
The trouble though, is [...]

Stay in School, A Cautionary Tale

Note: The colourful detail in this post is due to my knowing someone who recently went through this.

You’re smart, you’re passionate, you know your stuff, you’re a real code ninja. You’ve been building websites for years, you’ve got a couple of notable accomplishments under your belt and you figure, “hey, maybe I could play in [...]

The Skinning Trade-off

Anyone who’s built a website has likely had to deal with the temptation to skin native browser elements, such as the pulldown menu, the input field, the radio button, the checkbox, the button, the text field and the scroll bar. The most common skinning job that pervades the web is that of the simple button. [...]

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