A List Apart: The Web Design Survey, 2007. Take it. ¶
Guantanamero. Richard Stallman singing a protest song in Spanish. Now there’s something I didn’t expect to hear today. ¶
Me talking out loud: “Getting” Joins. Smart quick overview of the different SQL joins. ¶
Subtraction: GTD for Ten Year Olds. Get them on the system early, I guess. ¶
37 Signals: Don’t be a hero: Giving up is good. Probably the most important lesson for young developers. Probably for experienced ones too. ¶
Data Noise: acts_as_sphinx plugin. Nice search library. ¶
Make the Logo Bigger. \m/ ¶
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: Where are the Women? Where are the Links?. “Information architecture. Usability. Accessibility. Web standards. If you don’t know about these things, stop designing websites until you have learned. Competence in graphic design is merely a baseline; it does not qualify you to create user experiences for the web.” Sigh. ¶
HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web. Great overview of what HTML5 is about. ¶
Twitter, Rails, Seaside, Respect. “In the big picture, Twitter did exactly the right thing. They had a good idea and they buckled down and focused on delivering something as cool as possible as fast as possible, and it’s really hard, in early 2007, to beat Rails for that. When all of a sudden there were a few tens of thousands of people using it, then they went to work on the scaling.” ¶
My Ajax Nightmare. “There is a disturbing trend that I am seeing among older industry types that are just now entering the world of web development. They think that AJAX is not only the way you have to go but a platform rather than a feature. There is so much confusion at the moment as managers are evaluating different AJAX toolkits to bet the next few years of development on. My advice is to not tie yourself to any one toolkit and to abstract javascript away as much as possible.” ¶
Proposal to Adopt HTML5. Yes. Please. ¶
Soft Coding. This is actually a disguised Ruby on Rails ad. ¶
A List Apart: Articles: Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid. Finally a baseline grid article that just uses pixel sizes. I really see no need to define the header font size as 1.66666667em instead of 20px when you’re using a base font size of 12px anyway. ¶
Heresy and turtles (all the way down) with Avi Bryant. The choice between fully stateful (Seaside) and mostly stateless (Rails) depends very much on the kind of web application you’re building. ¶
Microsoft is dead. Old news. ¶
No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July. A very good example of a concept site that doesn’t suck. ¶
Social Suicide – storytelling with men’s bespoke suits. I never owned a suit, but now I want one. Or two. ¶
Working With Rails Weblog – Hackfest Winner Interview: Kevin Clark. “Less. The major accomplishment for 2.0 will be removal of the cruft. I want to see things pluginized, streamlined, and well tested. We went through this huge expansionist phase before the plugin architecture was written, and we need to pull out the things that just don’t belong in every Rails app.” Yes! ¶
Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface. Free some time to read this. It’s great. ¶
White- (or green, or blue, or yellow) label Dabble. You upload your logo and Dabble automatically creates a color scheme for you based on the colors in your logo. Very nifty. ¶
You’re not on a fucking plane (and if you are, it doesn’t matter). I think I fucking agree. ¶
Jester: JavaScriptian REST. It’s like ActiveResource, but written in JavaScript. Awesome. (Via Riding Rails.) ¶
Higher Quality DRM-Free Songs from EMI Available on iTunes for $1.29 in May. Yes, I’ll upgrade my entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free versions. Let’s hope this is not for US customers only. ¶
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