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Review: Atari VCS Gaming Console/Computer in 2024

November 11, 2024

When Atari first announced the new VCS a few years ago, I was impressed with their very modern looking interpretation of an iconic game console design. The woodgrain panel with lighted Fuji logo is just too cool!

Embracing Responsive Web Design

February 19, 2012

A while ago, I read and reviewed the book Handcrafted CSS which contains a chapter by guest author Ethan Marcotte describing what he referred to at the time as “fluid grids”.

Fun With OSGi and Spring

September 18, 2011

A few months ago, we started researching new platforms, frameworks, and tools for the next generation of our flagship product at my day job. OSGi was one of several Java technologies that came up during our initial discussions.

Book Review: Handcrafted CSS (Video Edition)

July 23, 2011

Early last year when I decided that I just couldn’t put off redesigning the very dated-looking Orbi Software site any longer, the first skill that I knew I needed to get up to speed on was CSS.

My Current Development Environments: Text Editors

June 09, 2011

In this series of posts, I thought it might be useful to step back and take a look at my current development environments. Environments is plural here because I have more than one.

Deploying ColdFusion MX 7 on JBoss 4.0.2 for Windows

July 28, 2005

Why do I want to use JBoss instead of sticking with Macromedia’s own JRun J2EE Application Server? Well, it’s a little bit of a long story. Most of the application development I’ve done in the past year…