Giles Bowkett: Female Programmers: Read This Book. “Sarah was nominated for the Pulitzer a couple years ago. I have a popular programming blog.” ¶
Daring Fireball Linked List: ‘But That’s All’. “I don’t think iPhone brings anything new to the table. It has a great user experience, but that’s all.” That’s corporate IT. ¶
Daring Fireball Linked List: A Cruel and Shallow Money Trench, a Long Plastic Hallway Where Thieves and Pimps Run Free, and Good Men Die Like Dogs. “The music labels think we should pay more for a song downloaded from a server that isn’t theirs, over a network that isn’t theirs, because, well, just because.” ¶
Manfred: Canon Selphy CP740 and Mac OS X Leopard. Don’t buy a Canon product unless you plan to never upgrade your OS. ¶
Dive into mark: Translation From MS-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Joel Spolsky’s “Martin Headsets”. Can someone please get Ze Frank to read this out loud on camera? ¶
Hixie’s Natural Log: Mistakes, Sadness, Regret. “[...] I recommend not including the meta tag, or, if you are forced to include it, making sure it says “IE=7”, even once IE8 ships. This seems to me to be the best way to show your support for an open, interoperable Web on the long term.” I think I agree. ¶
IEBlog: Compatibility and IE8. Bad idea. Adding more rendering modes makes it harder to maintaining the engine and harder to build and test web pages. A List Apart and Zeldman seem to like the idea, Dean edwards, Anne van Kesteren, Robert O’Callahan, Ian Hixie, and the Safari developers don’t. ¶
Graphic Design on the Radio. Interesting interviews. But why Flash? Why no podcast feed? Why no downloads? Why can’t I copy-paste the text? Why can’t I link to individual episodes? Why don’t these so called ‘graphic designers’ read DWWS? ¶
stevenf.com: Try Again. “A 34-company committee couldn’t create a successful ham sandwich, much less a mobile application suite.” This Android thing is going to suck. ¶
TUAW: iPhone Dev Team issues statement. “In the meantime we advise you not to update your free iPhone with the upcoming firmware. Wait for the next version to be fixed to work properly with your carrier and not break your phone.” Dear Apple, I’m perfectly happy to pay an additional fee for an unlocked iPhone. Please spend your time building great products instead of trying to keep them locked down. Thank you. ¶
Toolman Tim: The new Backpack: a shinier engine but a dull paint job. I agree. Trading developer time for this many server roundtrips is not a good idea. ¶
bynkii.com: Oh lord, now the Exchange team is doing it. “Wait, nevermind, it’s Microsoft. I’m sure they can come up with a way to tie Halo 3 into this shit.” Probably, yes. ¶
Smash’s world: 10 Things that “Absolutely suck” about the iPhone.. Don’t agree with all, but 2 and 7 really need to be fixed. ¶
Coding Horror: Why You Don’t Want an iPhone—Yet. I agree. I’m not getting an iPhone until I can use it with a 3G network and as a cellular modem for my MacBook Pro. ¶
Daring Fireball: Exchange Exchange. That the iPhone may kill MAPI. ¶
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?” ¶
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. ¶
37 Signals: Don’t be a hero: Giving up is good. Probably the most important lesson for young developers. Probably for experienced ones too. ¶
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. ¶
Mingle from ThoughtWorks Studios. No opinion. There’s really nothing but a lot of marketing speak right now. Or maybe we’re just not Agile enough because we don’t know what making ‘real-time decisions using real-time data’ is about and we’re not really looking for something that ‘provides project intelligence and supports all team activity’ (project intelligence? all team activity?) ¶
Letterhead Fonts embraces DRM. We always make sure we’ve paid for the fonts we use, but I’m never ever going to buy type that tries to enforce its license terms using technical measures. ¶
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