I suppose the title says it all. The developer tools native to IE 8 don't have all the functionality as the IE 7 developer toolbar, and the toolbar is not compatible with 8. Besides that … why does 8 seem to interpret styles so differently from IE7, IE6, Firefox, Safari?

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Memorial Day weekend, the weather’s cooperating in spectacular fashion (how often does this happen?), and in honor of the arrival of the summer season, Kris and I are sampling some Mediterranean delights – specifically two Italian liquors, GranGala Triple Orange Liquor and Limoncé Limoncello.  The GranGala was a perfect compliment to more complex cocktails, and [...]

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Ernesto on May 25th, 2008

Multi Ajax Star Rating Examples I've been looking for a simple rating system that can be used across various platforms… looks like this may do the trick… (tags: ajax javascript rating)

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IEBlog : IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine "Now you can install IE7 on your main machine for development, and get all the advantages of IE7, like the RSS platform, native XMLHTTP stack, and improved security, while still running IE6 simultaneously in the VPC on the same computer. Most importantly, (tags: IE6 ie7 [...]

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Install multiple versions of IE on your PC (tags: browser testing webdesign ie) The early versions of IE ran great, but the IE6 kept locking up on me. 

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Tit for tat on Digital Journalist editorial | News Videographer Interesting rebuttal to Web video editorial. I like the distinction between "contest" journalism and "good" journalism. (tags: video newspapers)

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How to read a business book Seth Godin on how to make effective use of business books. "The goal of the reading, then, isn’t to persuade you to change, it’s to help you choose what to change."… "if three weeks go by and you haven’t taken action on what you’ve wasted your t (tags: business [...]

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Ernesto on May 19th, 2008

YouSendIt Express! Desktop App Nice. (tags: ftp files yousendit tools free)

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Ernesto on May 18th, 2008

Despite what I said I planned to do in the last post on this subject; I didn't eat the big greasy pizza last night in preparation for my long run today — and I bonked at mile 15, just like hitting a wall, and struggled through the last three miles. It was perhaps made worse [...]

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Ernesto on May 16th, 2008

0516080725.jpg Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden First day of school! Sort of.  It was a visiting day at the school David will be starting next fall — but for Kris and me it was still dramatic.  After all, it was the first time he was going to be away from one or the [...]

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