I'm still alive! - 09/17/2006

The past 3 months have been huge for me. I found a job doing QA and XAP work at Nexaweb Technologies. Nexaweb is a company in Burlington, MA, that specializes in Enterprise Web 2.0 applications for companies such as Pepsi, Best Western, EMC, and others (especially in Japan. We're big in Japan).

As a result of my new job, I moved to Boston (Somerville), got a new car and have had tons of other stuff on my plate, hence the lack of updates.

I did complete one thing, though. I created AJAX-based comments. These comments behave like those of slashdot or livejournal, except they load onto the page asynchronously, so that form validation and new comments can happen without navigating away. Other advantages include a jaavascript obfuscation to prevent bots from spamming the comments with ads, and email addresses not being in the main source code to discourage email harvesters (of course, the email addresses ARE in the XML file, and will continue to be until I encode those. That's a ways away though because I've still got a lot on my plate

Future feature I'm planning on adding: a login system so that users can authenticate themselves (to prevent impostors), receive email notification when someone posts a reply, put in HTML, and moderate their own posts.