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Colorado and Amazon Battle and People Like Me Suffer
The Problem
Last month Colorado state legislature passed a bill that requires out-of-state stores to report unpaid sales tax to the state, and to the buyer. Basically, if you buy something from an online retailer, like Amazon.com, you don’t pay sales tax. Instead, you are supposed to pay sales tax on your own to the state. [...]
iPhones Apps Made With Flash
You’d think that someone like me, a Flash game developer and a Mac Enthusiast, would be very disappointed that Flash doesn’t work in the browser on the iPhone. But I’m not. I can see all the problems: touches aren’t mouse movements and the on-screen keyboard isn’t the same as a real keyboard. Most Flash movies [...]
WordPress Plug-Ins That I’d Like to See
I’ve been using WordPress for various sites for a number of years. Rarely have I been able to use it as-is. Usually, I have to go into the code and make some changes to get things to work the way I want. But recently I was lectured by someone about this. I should be using [...]
Things You Should Know About Writing and Reading Computer Books
So I have written 13 computer books, with my latest coming out in September. Most have been about either Flash or Shockwave game development. All have been for major computer book publishers and have been distributed in retail stores worldwide.
There are so many misconceptions about how computer books are created and what you should get [...]
My First NetBook
So I’ve been fascinated by the NetBook craze. Actually, I loved NetBooks even before they existed, being fascinated by the early Toshiba mini-notebooks in the 90s. But I’ve never owned one, until now. With prices close to $200 for a decent machine and my love of gadgets, it was just a matter of time.
I decided [...]