Derivadow

12 January 2007

Lets move the Caps Lock key

With mechanical typewriters there was good reason to have the shift lock key located above the shift key: shift lock was used to physically locked or jam the shift key into place and so needed to be adjacent to the shift key, furthermore the mechanical nature of typewriters meant there was very little or no…

8 January 2007

Is Apple addictive?

With the Macworld Expo upon us the usual hype and speculation is again rife; and the coming weeks will no doubt see the regular postmortems. While I don’t wish to join this particular line of speculation, I would like to consider why it happens; not why Apple is secretive but why there is such an…

5 January 2007

AJAX what is it? (it’s not DHTML)

Despite the fact that AJAX is at the centre of the current Web 2.0 movement it is still a greatly misunderstood technology. So what is it? Ajax, is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML – its not a technology in it own right rather a set of established technologies, a development technique if you will,…