It is largely understood that Windows Vista is — in many ways — a flop. So it’s no surprise that Redmond is trying desperately to *gasp* come up with something interesting to offer. Tonight was a much-anticipated appearance by monkey-boy and the evil emperor at All Things Digital in California where they were to give people a sneak peak at Windows 7 (what? No funky name?). What they delivered? Multi-touch support on Windows 7. *yawn*.

For those of you interested, here’s a live blog of the encounter, complete with a short video of multi-touch in action.

Now don’t get me wrong, I think multi-touch is very cool and I hope to see much more of it. But it’s gonna take a whole heck of a lot more than a bigger iPhone to redeem the flop otherwise known as Vista. And just one question I have: who wants a laptop screen full of fingerprints? *sigh*.

I recently had the opportunity to re-design Best Buy’s corporate site (www.bestbuyinc.com), and as part of that effort, I encountered a problem I had not worked through before — different languages in Flash. I learned a great deal about dealing with different languages and for the most part, it was not as complicated as I expected (and feared it) to be — that is, until I needed to include Mandarin Chinese in the mix.
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What is the modulus anyway? I have used this operator (%) only twice before and I didn’t quite understand it either time. All I knew is that it was doing what I hoped it would. I figured I should probably know what the modulus operator does so I called on the mighty name of Google and voila!:

The easiest explanation I found so far can be found at Mote Interactive. For some interesting uses, check out Grant Skinner’s post on the matter. And finally, if all you’re looking to do is figure out odds or evens, Keith Peters found a nice post on an alternative to modulus.

I love Google.

You might have better luck solving the chicken and the egg question compared to determining which of these is the better editor. I truly think there is no perfect answer for anyone out there, but I can tell you that there are certain things about each one of these editors that I love — and things that I loathe.

I could write a long-winded review of each editor but there are many such posts on the web already — instead, I will just give you a quick bulleted list of things I like and dislike.

Right off the bat, I have to say that I have used both BBEdit and TextMate extensively in the past whereas my experience with Coda has been very limited. The primary languages I develop in are HTML, CSS, XML, and Actionscript. I also do a little PHP and Javascript, but not enough to really make a difference.
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