Just this past Friday, SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston — my day job — welcomed Jeff Han, founder of Perspective Pixel, to demonstrate the Command’s new 8-foot-long multi-touch multi-user (MTMU) screen his company developed. There’s something phenomenal happening here. It’s a real-life scene straight from Minority Report. I only wish I could share the video from [...]

I authored an article a few weeks back on a technique for stopping users from leaving a web form if they’ve made changes using JavaScript and the Prototype library. There was one fatal flaw in this otherwise successful script: it only checked for changes in text fields. Well, if you were as frustrated as I [...]

I am building a back-office administration tool for a New York-based client. The application manages their customer data, tracks invoices and payments, application forms, travel information, manages their corporate Web site’s content and media, and a whole lot more. It’s pretty damned slick. Despite it’s numerous (and not-yet-fully-tested!) successes, there’s one fatal flaw with this [...]

I’m not the fastest guy when it comes to buying into the very latest products, especially if it’s something brand new; I usually sit back a while and let everyone else suffer along in the early days while the kinks are ironed out. Well, for Blinksale, the bugs have long been fixed and the service [...]

Anatomy of MySQL on the GRID “With a near obsession to figure out how to offer reliable, high-performing, low-cost MySQL services, the (mt) Media Temple GRID architects went back to the whiteboard to completely redevelop the database strategy. What resulted is a new container system which will give each GRID customer their own dedicated MySQL [...]