Operating Systems
A friend of mine at IBM asked my opinion about something Jonathan Schwartz, of Sun Microsystems, had to say about "operating systems". After reading his blog, I developed two opinions — one about what he said and the other about how he said it. First of all, what is an operating system? Some readers know […]
Trike Weather
The winter has been a cold one but today was unusually mild. The temperature reached fifty degrees today and I could not resist heading out for a trike ride. If I had thought about the melting snow on the roads and the likely splashing of mud and salty water I would not have taken the […]
IBM Happenings: January 2005
Based on the positive feedback about the "IBM Happenings", I will continue to post them during 2005. January started out with some interesting news and it looks like it will be another very busy year for the company.Here are the IBM announcements for January. The complete Index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is […]
Pop Menu Magic
The team at Macromedia has done a fantastic job in creating Dreamweaver MX 2004. Dreamweaver contains just about everything one needs to build, publish, and maintain a website. It is hard for me to imagine building a website without strong WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) capability. The one thing that Dreamweaver does […]
Pop Menu Magic – Demo
This post, although dated January 30, 2005 was actually created and published in 2013 as part of the integration of patrickWeb site components into WordPress. This post illustrates the Pop Menu Magic menu in action, as it was used in a test page in 2005 on the old site — the navigational structure is preserved, […]