My Comic as a Web Developer / Programmer

25 August 2010 by brant, Comments

Is it Time for a New Google Syntax for Comments?

21 July 2010 by brant, Comments

The average blog post is fairly easy to index and crawl for Google.  However, what happens when a single page has several hundred comments?  How does Google decide what’s important to include in a search query and what to ignore?  Heck, in some cases the comments on a Reddit post are more important than the [...]

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If iPhone4 has a problem with it’s antenna, why aren’t there more customer calls about it?

18 July 2010 by brant, Comments
If iPhone4 has a problem with it’s antenna, why aren’t there more customer calls about it?

You heard about Apple’s press conference from Friday about reception and antenna issues.  Steve said much about nothing and tried to pass the blame around to whomever he could.  However, I want to concentrate on one particular quote that is surprising at first glance:
Only 0.55 percent of iPhone 4-related calls received by Apple Care have been related [...]

Web Developers, You’re Not Alone

27 June 2010 by brant, Comments

Web developers who plan to work alone, or are already doing so have a lot of obstacles to overcome.  One of which is being isolated and having no like-minded professionals to turn to for advice and feedback.   I know this one all too well and have been working alone  for the past 5+ years on various [...]

Google’s Soft 404’s are Inaccurate and Often Times, Outdated

7 June 2010 by brant, Comments

Google has announced that they have implemented Soft 404’s as a way to indicate pages that appear to be 404 (page not found) but come up as 200 (Good Response).   My initial reaction was that’s great news and should help me out when I forgot to include a 404 header response.  So then I [...]

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Lost Sucks

24 May 2010 by brant, Comments

The “cool” thing to say is that Lost was great.  When the Sopranos ended people said how great that show was too.  In both cases, good shows turned into steaming piles of dog shit rather quickly.  So let me take a moment to explain why Lost sucked.
Most of you are too lazy to re-watch season 1 of [...]

How to Create Page Load Animations Using jQuery

4 May 2010 by brant, Comments

We have all gone to Google.com and noticed that they have a neat little animation to reveal more of their page.  So let me show you how to create similar effects using jQuery and jQuery UI.
We will be using the .animate effect for jQuery UI, along with FadeIn and AddClass.  I’m not going to go [...]

The Social Web is Using You

27 April 2010 by brant, Comments
The Social Web is Using You

The term “social web” sounds great.  A lot of people use social websites like facebook, digg, twitter, reddit, etc.  Every year more and more social websites create buttons for websites to allow users to vote, like, digg, tweet, etc for their site.
While that sounds good at first glance, after a closer look all they are [...]

Directv Multi-Room DVR (Beta) Review

24 April 2010 by brant, Comments
Directv Multi-Room DVR (Beta) Review

Directv users have wanted multi-room ability to watch their recorded shows from their dvr on other hd receivers.  Well, now it’s possible.  The Multi-Room DVR beta is probably already on your HD-DVR receiver. Go to your setup menu and look for “multi-room”.
Before I get to how multi-room performs, I *think* the multi-room beta is only available [...]

I introduce to you, a new way to rant

23 April 2010 by brant, Comments
I introduce to you, a new way to rant

It occurred to me that a lot of people have things to rant about. Your first option might be to rant on twitter or facebook, but you “sort of” know those people. Those sites aren’t anonymous and you sure as heck aren’t going to waste your time creating a blog. Enter NerdRANT.
NerdRANT [...]