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Progressive Enhancement is a methodology where a web application is developed in layers.

I recently had a chat with a peer/CTO-type who has argued before Congress a local board on net neutrality.

We have January browser numbers.

Today, Google announced that it will begin phasing out support on older browsers, most notably IE6, for Google Docs.

I like the concept of e-books, if not their current state-of-the-art.

So, I’ve been going a little Ajax crazy lately.

I did a little test.

It appears that the hack against Google was perpetrated via their law enforcement compliance system.

Hat tip to Sarah Lacy for laying it out so well: Google is ready to burn bridges.

I am sitting in a cafe and a woman is impressed that “this is the kind of place where people leave their computers unattended”, which I guess is true.

It would appear that Google is learning something about customer service: Google is selling the phone directly to end-users.

In this article, we get a foreshadowing of the new, lawless use of the “no-fly” list: Senate Intelligence Chairman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said a “very comprehensive no-fly list” would be “the greatest protection our country has.”

So, we have December browser numbers, giving us complete year of browser stats for 2009 [browsers | browser versions].

I don’t underestimate Apple’s ability to create unprecedented stuff, and to make it much better than anyone imagined.

I took a look at Google’s new language, Go.

So, an idea I have been kicking around a while is BillableHour.org.

There have been some interesting posts lately asking the question, “if some programmers are 10 times as productive as others, why aren’t they paid 10 times as much?”.

AT&T etc etc According to Gizmodo, AT&T comes out #1 for data performance.

An important concept in MVC is that Views are meant to be “dumb” — and by that I mean, your View should only care about outputting a user interface, and should know very little about business logic.

So Fake Steve, who I like, thinks it would be funny to try to overload AT&T network tomorrow.

Very interesting (if-you’re-a-nerd) talk by John Resig.

I would love to see notebooks based on Nvidia’s insane Tegra chip:

I recently put a new SSD in my system (yay!)

I think it’s quite brilliant that Amazon has introduced spot pricing for servers.

I’ve begun compiling a list of wi-fi cafes in New York City, with a bias toward those in my neighborhood.

This can’t be good: Can servers really fail that spectacularly?

If Firefox were a stock, I’d be shorting it.

Schmidt: if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have no need for privacy

So, we all know that browsers have differing levels of CSS support.

These days, I am doing a lot of Javascript, or more accurately, a lot of jQuery.

A while back I asked whether some enterprising-person-who-is-smarter-than-I would offer a version of the {less} CSS framework for .Net.

This is a gold mine for Joel and Jeff over at StackOverflow: careers.

My startup is developing a new web site, and every web developer must decide the extent to which they will support old technology — especially Internet Explorer 6.

I know I am getting repetitive but I have to ask again — why is Intel having so much trouble shipping its second-generation solid-state drives (the X25-M G2)?

So, there are many ways to skin the cat we called form validation.

I am playing with the Microsoft Ajax Minifier, which removes whitespace from your Javascripts for quicker download.

One would think, after announcing the product in July, that Intel might be shipping its next-gen solid state hard drives.

Since moving from Cali to NY, I’ve come to miss my favorite radio station, KDFC.

OK, so a friend is raving about his Droid phone, and it sounds quite cool.

After my recent move to NYC, I discovered that my Google Calendar was 3 hours off from my iPhone calendar.

I am working on a filtered HTML field.

Rumors of an IE9 announcement.

I’ve written previously on the idea that data, not algorithms, will be a main differentiator for web companies moving forward.

So I’ve moved to a new place in NYC, and it’s a bit…cozier…than what I was used to in San Francisco.

Neat, if you type in a partial lyric to a song — without even referring to the title or artist — Google finds it and gives it to you to play right there.

I rely on libraries (mostly jQuery) instead of writing a lot of serious JavaScript these days.

Rackspace has announced that they are getting into the Windows virtual machine bizness.

Neat, Google has a new language called Go.

Joel Spolsky has an article in Inc describing the tension between growth and quality at his company.

The flagship strategy of mobile phones — Microsoft needs one In the wake of the iPhone over the last few years, it seems that the market is responding to a business model different than the PC’s that preceded it.