Steven B. Johnson, on digital text applications: When your digital news feed doesn’t contain links, when it cannot be linked to, when it can’t be indexed, when you can’t copy a paragraph and paste it into another application: when this happens your news feed is not flawed or backwards looking or frustrating. It is broken.
Category: Software Development and Testing
It’s the Little Things
Application development, especially User Interface, is very much about “the little things.” The things that make life easier for users. Here’s a simple example, one that bugs me almost every time I use a browser. There are probably URLs that you type often and, for whatever reason, you don’t bother to make into bookmarks or […]
QotW
Quote of the Week: Python is the new BASIC. – Dave Winer I think I’d say that it’s the new (Turbo) Pascal, but I agree with Dave. Fast (enough), available, and easy (enough) to learn. There’s no excuse not to get out and start programming if you’ve got any thought at all of doing so.
A Python-MySQL Project
I assigned myself a project for the weekend, writing a little program that I could use to disable comments on blog posts based on their age. Python’s already installed on the Mac, so I figured it’d be pretty easy to use that to make updates to my WordPress database. The first thing needed is the […]
Got Firebug?
Web developers, have you looked into and downloaded Firebug yet? I just came across a mention of it on Matt’s weblog and it certainly looks worth a good look or three. Integrating live website editing — CSS, HTML, Javascript — fight into Firefox! Watch Jesse Newland’s screencast and I think you’ll be as interested as […]
They Won’t Take Your Money?
Mike McBride asks for some experiential information from Mac users: My wife was doing a little on-line shopping today on her Mac and ran into a couple of sites that wouldn’t accept her credit card information. The transactions failed in both Firefox and Safari. I’ve never had a problem with a shopping site taking my […]
Me – Off The Net?
I mentioned I’d been off the net today; the funny thing is that I was productively working on a website. E, at TPI, has been good to me in these few months, contracting me to build their new site and finding other gigs to work on for her. This week they’ve got a contract for […]
You have fallen into a hole.
Ethan J. A. Schoonover, creator of the Kinkless GTD system, has, I think, one of the best customized 404 messages I’ve seen in a long time. Kudos.
For Web Designers and Developers, pt 2
Two more items for webheads: Russ Weakley’s Web standards checklist and the excellent Beginner’s guide from a seasoned CSS designer by Cameron Moll.
For Web Designers and Developers
Sam‘s pointing to several interesting tools this week, including Mootools’ Transcorners and DateBlocks. Web developers, check ’em out.