37signals : Four letter words. Watch out for need, must, can’t, easy, just, only, and fast. Thijs (edit) ¶

#rails-contrib and rubyonrails-stacks. The #rails-contrib channel is a great idea. Norbert (edit) ¶

Popfly. It’s Microsoft trying to act all Web Two point Oh. Norbert (edit) ¶

Stanford Center for Internet and Society: A Fair(y) Use Tale. Funny, informative, and an excellent example of the importance of fair use. Thijs (edit) ¶

Shaver: The high cost of some free tools. “When the tool spits out some bundle of shining Deployment-Ready Code Artifact, do you get something that can be mashed up, styled, scripted, indexed by search engines, read aloud by screen readers, read by humans, customized with greasemonkey, reformatted for mobile devices, machine-translated, excerpted, transcluded, edited live with tools like Firebug? Or do you get a chunk of dead code with some scripted frills about the edges, frozen in time and space, until you need to update it later and have to figure out how to get the same tool setup you had before, and hope that the platform is still getting security and feature updates?” Thijs (edit) ¶

Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog: Free Advice for the Litigious… Seems like it’s time to buy some Sun hardware. Thijs (edit) ¶

Dive into Mark: Outrageous. “By then, IBM will have filed tens of thousands more. It’s an institutionalized form of madness, outrageous, all-consuming, and incurable. I’m ashamed to have been a part of it.” It’s not incurable. All madness can be stopped. Thijs (edit) ¶

A List Apart: Educate Your Stakeholders!. “Although such people may be very well meaning, they are often blissfully unaware of the factors that should and do influence decision making on the web.” Thijs (edit) ¶

Sam Ruby: Different Drummer. Well… Thijs (edit) ¶

Dive into mark: Silly season. Don’t get fucked by Adobe or Microsoft. Thijs (edit) ¶

Ongoing: REST, as in Take It Easy. Names and message and a little bit of protocol. Thijs (edit) ¶