Ever wonder what xmlns such as the one used often in XHTML doctype (see below) means? 1<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> xmlns is short for XML namespace and this specifies a unique url to represent the namespace for any custom tags used in the document. The one in the example is the standard namespace. Good to note that [...]
this was just too funny to pass up. tim geithner tried pawning the blame on turbotax for not paying his taxes. we actually responded with a press-release, which basically says that he is lame.
1. American Express (remained No. 1) 2. eBay (+6) 3. IBM (no change) 4. Amazon (+1) 5. Johnson & Johnson (+ 1) 6. Hewlett Packard (+10) 6. U.S. Postal Service (+1) 7. Procter & Gamble (+2) 8. Apple (new to the top 20) 9. Nationwide (remained the same) 10. Charles Schwab (-8) 11. USAA (+4) [...]
Joshua- Write me a little paper on the economy of Zimbabwe, ok? xxxx | From: Joshua McGinnis | Subject: Extra Credit | Date Sent: December 10, 2008 4:33 PM | To: xxxx | | | Hi XXXX, | | I just wanted to send you this e-mail before taking my last test and ask if [...]
phil gross and i worked on something we call Intuit PARE (Purchase Aggregation and Recommendation Engine). it won the local “one-day sprint” which is a track of the competition for teams who get together and put together an entire concept in a single day. respek!
i’ve been working a major integration project with quickbase and vtrenz. one of the things i had to do this week was take a ~10K row csv, scrub the cells for specific length, and then ftp to a remote server. so i wrote a php script that would connect to quickbase, pull down the csv, [...]
there’s an ideajam at intuit tomorrow. i’ve got my team. i’ve got the idea. let’s hope for a 4th win! oh, they sent out this cool little promotional audio clip to promote the competition. listen here: [audio:http://mcginn.is/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ideajam-20081202.mp3]
link this design is one of my favs.
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