Windows Vista haters got a ray of hope recently when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company was willing to consider extending Windows XP’s lifespan. However, while Ballmer tells the Associated Press, “if customer feedback varies, we can always wake up smarter,” don’t count on Microsoft keeping XP around to satisfy a handful of disgruntled [...]

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I was reading some of my favorite Tech Hacking blogs and came across this one. Since I’m currently taking a Cisco Wireless class to keep my certifications up to date, I thought this would be a nifty little toy to build in the near future. Enjoy!
Picture this: You find yourself sitting in a hotel room [...]

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I’ve been playing around a bit lately with a couple of JavaScript libraries that implement includes, or “transcludes”. That is to say, with a bit of JavaScript, you can stick parts of other HTML pages into your page — and it’s the browser, not the server, that does the fetching work.
That minimizes the load [...]

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Google has opened up the long de facto standard for map overlays, the Keyhole Markup Language, making it an official open standard. The Open Geospatial Consortium, an international map standards body, will oversee the future of KML, which has been renamed the OpenGIS KML Encoding Standard (OGC KML).
Both Yahoo and Microsoft already support KML in [...]

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Outsource your infrastructure to Amazon. Click the magic button on Amazon’s front door (Amazon Web Services) and enter the land of cloud computing.

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