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Archive for December, 2006

Running Vista RC1 on VMWare

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Having signed up for the pre-release versions of Vista some time back, I finally got as far as loading the OS onto a machine the other day. (The crunch was needing to have an IE7 to test with. I’m not yet ready to upgrade to IE7 on my main Windows machine.) Lacking a spare physical […]

Turning templates inside out

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

It was Microsoft’s classic ASP that first made the breakthrough, I think, of turning the CGI program inside out, so that snippets of code were embedded in the HTML, rather than the other way round. Nowadays, it seems so obvious, and every web programming system under the sun does it - PHP, ASP, JSP, Erb, […]

Turing test for cats

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

In these days of AI programs that can tell the difference between a man and a woman, and chatbots inching ever closer to the Turing test, it should come as no surprise to discover that a software system has been detected that can tell the difference between cat and human typing patterns.
Use of computers by […]

New books

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

I’ve been letting the blog go quiet for too long, while keeping busy with work, running training courses, helping to design eco-cities and that sort of thing.
I’ve also been keeping busy writing, and Manning are expecting two new books out early in 2007.
Ajax in Practice takes up where Ajax in Action left off, looking […]

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