The terms “pull up” and “pull down” resistors confused the heck out of me but I get it now.
A resistor limits current. In the water analogy, current is the speed of the flow of water. But I never knew what a pull up/pull down resistor was. Until a few weeks ago when I started building a set of buttons for a project I’m working on…
Essentially a button is a switch, when the switch is closed the current flows, when it’s open the current doesn’t flow. Now if your switch is …

WordPress is nice but it’s a bit of a hog CPU-wise. Jeff Atwood has a nice piece on this entitled “Behold WordPress, Destroyer of CPUs“.
We have a big set of releases coming up at work and I’ve become a bit obsessed with performance. We’re not using WordPress but I figured performance improvement, just like anything, starts at home. So ever since installing WordPress with this Arthemia theme I’ve been tweaking to try to get the most out of it.
I’m measuring performance using Fiddler 2, starting with clear browser, …

It’s no secret I’ve long been a fan of .NET and the ASP.NET stack. I feel the team really got it right making developers highly productive and the Visual Studio IDE is second to none. After spending some long hours with Atlas and ASP.NET AJAX though I’m afraid I can’t say the same.
ATLAS on top of ASP.NET is an example of a retro-fitted round tube jammed into a square hole. The whole notion of AJAX is that it’ll serve PARTIAL pages, snippets of data, merged with presentation …

I had a great idea today. Here’s the thought process. It occurs to me that one of the biggest problems with old folks homes is the feeling of detachment. The “folks” are only visited once in a while but I’m sure it makes their day. Most of the time they’re not aware of what’s going on with their own families.
Now take the case of children’s hospitals. Robert Wood Johnson for example has some form of game console in every room. So why not some technology in old-folks’ homes?
If you …