DesignWorkPlan: Dutch government introduces a custom typeface: Rijksoverheid. Nice. Thijs (edit) ¶

Ruby on Rails commit: alternative resolution to vendor load problem. After Sexy Migrations and Foxy Fixtures we now have Nesting Camels. Manfred (edit) ¶

Too-biased: Passenger. “We switched to enterprise ruby to get the full benefit of the COW memory characteristics and we can absolutely confirm the memory savings of 30% some others have reported. This is many thousand dollars of savings even at today’s hardware prices.” Thijs (edit) ¶

So far, you can only download it if you use Mozilla Firefox or Safari, as Nokia is still working on adding support for Internet Explorer. Nokia Friend View joins the make-it-work-in-proper-browsers-first community. Manfred (edit) ¶

Flickr Developer Blog: Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site. “Don’t use a JavaScript library or CSS framework, Load page fragments instead of full pages, Don’t build for just one device, Optimize everything, Tell the user what is happening” Thijs (edit) ¶

Unweary: Specifying Performance. “For each user interaction in your software ask yourself if the user is expecting an Instantaneous response, (0.1 to 0.2 seconds), an Immediate response (0.5 to 1.0 seconds), a Continuous (2 to 5 seconds), or a Captive response (7 to 10 seconds).” Thijs (edit) ¶