http://ian.sundermedia.com Science is wicked fun Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:56:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Most of the people who know me, know that I’m a fairly dedicated Microsoft fan boy. However, most of my fellow .NET developers are quick to point out that the vast majority of my projects are in PHP. A quick look around will show that this is not an uncommon ... http://ian.sundermedia.com/2010/07/hosting-is-killing-aspnet/ After several tweets about Flash tonight, I've realized that it's nearly impossible to make any real point in 140 characters. Flash has been a hot button issue for web developers since it first emerged. On the one hand, it provides reliable, cross-browser functionality, on the other hand, it's in-accessible, overused, ... http://ian.sundermedia.com/2010/06/a-pragmatic-opinion-on-crappy-websites/ As many people know, I’m a bit of a Microsoft fan boy. I’ve been an open supporter of most of their technology and I make a decent living writing code for various Microsoft platforms. Needless to say, when the new Windows Phone was announced, I was pretty stoked. I was ... http://ian.sundermedia.com/2010/05/windows-phone-7-dissappointment/ Over the past couple of years, a small but dedicated group of developers have been pushing a new technique for authenticating users called OAuth. While it has some benefits, it's limitations are crippling. The goal of OAuth is to create a more secure authentication system by limiting who has access to ... http://ian.sundermedia.com/2010/02/oauth-is-destined-to-fail/ One of the most common complaints about Generation Y is the "Everybody gets a Trophy" ideal. There have been dozens of articles and even an entire book dedicated to this and how to train us Generation Y kids to just drop it and behave like good cubicle monkeys should. There are ... http://ian.sundermedia.com/2010/01/what-trophy/ As just about anybody who reads this blog knows, I was laid off in September of last year. While the lay off wasn't a big surprise, it was sudden and left me in a tough spot. For a while I was hoping to make a move to Redmond to go ... http://ian.sundermedia.com/2010/01/im-a-piehead/ Over the past 2 years, there have been a boatload of articles, posts, books and informative pamphlets about Generation Y. Most of them have either focused on "dealing" with us or how wrong we are. Every time I've read one of these, I've felt like it was written about somebody else. The ... http://ian.sundermedia.com/2010/01/gen-y-talks-about-gen-y/ It's no secret that IE6 is the nemesis of pretty much every web developer or designer on the planet. It's CSS support is garbage, it's javascript performance and support is just as bad and it's got a boatload of security flaws. In general, it's everything you'd expect from a browser ... http://ian.sundermedia.com/2009/12/effectively-eliminating-ie6/ Yesterday, I posted about some concerns I had about Techstars. The post came across a bit more harsh than I intended (I'm a coder not a writer), and I've received a lot of feedback from both the Techstars crew and several of their participants. However, some of my concerns still ... http://ian.sundermedia.com/2009/11/techstars-update/ Update posted here EDIT:  The tone of this post was clearly a bit off from my original intent. My main point was that it seems that the founders involved here are pretty much going all in by quitting their jobs for 3 months, whereas the investors are taking an incredibly small ... http://ian.sundermedia.com/2009/11/i-still-dont-get-techstars/