Zach Holmquist

Musings of a Salt Lake City Web Developer

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My New Love : Fluid Browser

I have spent months finding the perfect Mail client, I tried: Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Postbox, MailPlane, etc. Yet I always would come back to the web based interface for Gmail. My biggest issue though – as with any web app – is the fact I have to keep it contained within my browser of choice. [...]

iPhone 3.0 CoreData : Where the heck is the Data?

I attended a training for iPhone App Development, where I was introduced to the kinda complex world of CoreData – which was recently added to iPhone OS 3.0. I was hooked the moment the incredibly smart and local Cocoa Genius Dave Delong mentioned that CoreData is a better way to store data – heck – even [...]

Installing Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 on Windows XP

The most annoying part about being a web developer is having to cater to the needs of outdated browsers and their awful quirks – I am looking at you IE ( specifically IE6 ).  The whole situation becomes woeful when you install IE7 and it wipes IE6 out, and then if you install IE8 it [...]