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It's only been one day and already I'm in love with MediaWiki. I have been able to organize my thoughts around a theme system redesign more than I ever though possible.

I generally design only for the latest browsers. If my code works on the most recent version of Safari, Opera, Firefox, and IE then I’m happy. However, Internet Explorer is such a piece of crap that sometimes atrocious errors on IE7 give me great pause. (As of this writing IE8 was the current browser.) I’ve said [...]

"Using @font-face allows web designers a wide palette of font choices and with commercial font vendors supporting the WOFF font format, the set of font choices should improve even more. So the next step is clearly to try and make better use of features available in these fonts."

I have an issue, I’m kind of unhappy with PHP. I have used many languages, but as a developer at Microsoft I used C, C++, and C#. I would consider C and C++ to have been naturally selected as the “best” languages, but at this point, we also know what’s wrong with them and want [...]

If you read my About page, you can see I worked for Microsoft on Internet Explorer. But what did I do? It’s kind of a long story, but I’ll try to keep on topic. I went to work at Microsoft on the Microsoft Chrome product. You probably don’t know what that is, because it was [...]

Oh Microsoft, will you ever learn? Only one day after downloading Internet Explorer 8, I ran into my first bug. And it’s not even tricky! It’s just something that should obviously be fine. (Watch, someone will point out my error now that I’ve said that!) It’s on my political blog, The Politimat, and it’s just a [...]

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 today. I downloaded it and am really hopeful that, well, basically that it will cause less trouble in my life than previous versions. I have a long history with Internet Explorer. In some ways it’s kind of weird to be watching it from afar. The entire Internet Explorer group, including me, [...]

WordPress makes a breaking change in 2.7 that is causing some logout issues for older themes. But it's a good thing. I explain how Microsoft might want to take a lesson from WordPress.

My dream of dreams is that Microsoft get out of the browser game. Don’t they see they’re only causing trouble? Today when working on some changes to the theme for Doxie News I realized that the first paragraph of every post was ignoring it’s margin-left. It appeared to be only margin-left, all the other properties, [...]