Gordaen’s Blog

AJAX is essentially a method of getting data to a browser without refreshing a page. Web pages normally have to be entirely downloaded to see new data from the server, but with AJAX you can send the request “behind the scenes” and receive the data asynchronously. This is what makes Gmail and similar […]

Being a web developer, I find that extensions are immensely useful. Firefox is my browser of choice for regular browsing and testing websites, plus it is free and available for every operating system (otherwise I might use Safari more). One of the great things about Firefox, is the ability to add to it […]

Snoqualmie Falls (Wikipedia entry) is just one of the many beautiful places in the Pacific Northwest.

Stainless Steel?

A few months back nearly every advertisement on MySpace became an advertisement for True, an online dating service. While the ads were all ridiculous (girls in bikinis, half unbuttoned shirts, etc.), they were just ads. I’ve learned to ignore nearly all ads and I block flash ads, so the change didn’t really matter […]