A client of mine recently tasked me with figuring out why the newer versions of IE were throwing a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) error.  For the life of me,  couldn’t figure out why.  Maybe it was because they were submitting a form to another server?  Or perhaps because the Javascript was closing the window when [...]

As any good free-lance web developer does, I was browsing my competition’s portfolio earlier this evening.  I was curious as to how the layout was done on one of their client’s web pages, so I opened the source.  Near the bottom, there were probably 100 links injected into the page.  It turns out that they [...]

Last Christmas I graduated from college.  One of my graduation gifts was a 2nd generation iPod Touch!  At the time, the iPod Touch was one of the coolest things I had ever got.  I immediately started to play with it, and was impressed with it’s ability to know the orientation of the device.  It’s multi-touch [...]

I’m not a Flex developer, but I’m quickly becoming one.  Recently I was tasked with creating a Flex form, sending it to the server, waiting for a response, and handling things accordingly.  My problem was that I couldn’t figure out how to use my result set that I received from the server.  Turns out, I [...]

After dragging my feet on open source contribution for some time, I’ve decided to get actively involved with Ubuntu.  I’m going to start by learning how to package different things, and then go from there.  I would eventually like to get a new package into the next version of Ubuntu, but I think starting small [...]

As the job prospects in my neck of the woods are few and far between, I will most likely be returning to grad school this spring.  While it isn’t best situation, it is currently the best choice I have to make ends meet and further my career.  I won’t be taking my grad assistant-ship back [...]

The coming weeks are going to be big at Re-Cycled Air.  I hope to get the following things done: Form an legitimate LLC through the State of Michigan. (Sole proprietorship is too risky) Get a federal tax id number so that I can sub contract work if necessary (fingers crossed). Track down as many free-lance [...]