After 9 months experimenting with Windows Vista, I just rebuilt my machine with XP. I have a Dell Precision M65 that I bought July 2006. I installed Vista Betas andContinue readingBack to XP

I haven't been keeping up this blog over the last 6 months or so. I also have never been super happy with the name missinghref.com which I thought was kindContinue readingSwitching to BlogEngine.NET and johndyer.name

I've been experimenting with Papervision3D in order to make a 3D version of our campus map. On of our artists has worked up an extremely detailed map in Google Sketchup.Continue readingPapervision3D Experiment: 3D Campus Map

This year, my team won two awards for the Dallas Theological Seminary website. Hopefully, we can pull in a Webby someday! Interactive Media Awards Best in Class-University   Web MarketingContinue reading2006 Design Awards

I've been working with various versions of Microsoft's Atlas (now Ajax Toolkit) trying to get it to work well with FreeTextBox. This should be the last major update to versionContinue readingCall for Help: FreeTextBox and Atlas

For the last two weeks, I've been running some tests of DTS's website (which was featured on godbit and just won an best of the web award!) with CrazyEgg.com. We testedContinue readingMaking Design Decisions Based on Visual Mouse-Click data from CrazyEgg.com

I've been reading that Vista adds it's tagging data directly to the file (here and here). I tagged some JPEGs and then opened them up in a text file toContinue readingQuick C# Vista Photo Tag Reader

I wrote a little prototype class for limiting the number of characters in a <textarea>. It also includes a counter if you want. You set the ID of the <textarea>,Continue readingTextarea text counter / limiter

I regularly use the prototype javascript library in JavaScript development (in fact, FreeTextBox4 will use it). But I’ve found that the $F() function doesn’t work like I expect it toContinue readingGet the value of a radio button in JavaScript

The next big thing after website traffic reports appears to be mouse tracking. There are several services popping up that use JavaScript to track a user's mouse movements and clicks.Continue readingMouse Tracking: Beyond Analytics