classical geek

When I’m not talking/writing/teaching Ajax, I’m often found practising it at Historic Futures, in idyllic rural Gloucestershire (that’s in the UK).
We’re looking - rather unsuccessfully, at the moment - for someone to fill a gap in our team, to complement our existing technical skills with a bit of graphical flair. The usual channels are […]

Nat Torkington of O’Reilly Radar (who first appeared on my radar as author ofvthe Perl Cookbook), has written a very nice future timeline of the Web. Nuff said on my part, go have a look.

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, […]

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 […]