April 2, 2007 - ElegantCode

2 Apr

2007

Thank You, Askimet

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Blogging, Open Source Software, Tools and Utilities:

Comment spam is a PITA (look it up) for most bloggers. I have tried several solutions to comment spam with varying degrees of success and have most recently tried to simply moderate all comments. This is far too time consuming to actually continue, so I looked again for a solution to the problem. I have been […]

2 Apr

2007

Why WPF/E Will Kill Flash

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Microsoft, Software Development, Tools and Utilities:4 Comments

WPF/E is Microsoft’s newly introduced technology meant to compete with Adobe’s Flash . The community preview for WPF/E was released in February. In a bold statement, Microsoft released plugins for IE6, IE7, FireFox, and Macintosh’s Safari. Is this yet another latecomer technology offering that won’t quite catch on? I don’t think so. When marketing or business people seek out software developers […]