One year ago today, I posted a list of predictions for 2007. Let’s see how I did: Apple will release a new UI with Mac OS X 10.5 that is reminiscent of iTunes 7, and I will spend the rest of the year slagging it. - Thankfully, no. Apple did ex...
Looking for the missing Capistrano recipes for Rails and Nginx from http://jonmagic.com/assets/2007/2/21/jonmagic_recipes.txt? No need to fret: The Internet Wayback Machine actually did what it was supposed to for once, and cached the file. Also,...
Dan Tynan of PC World just awarded Office 2007 with a big lump of coal as part of PC World’s 15 biggest technological disappointments of 2007 awards. I’m severely disappointed in this, especially given that the stated rationale is that the Ribbon ...
Steven Hodson and Long Zheng wrote yesterday about whether Microsoft is becoming less open and transparent than they were a few years ago: the post-Robert Scoble era, as he put it. Apparently, a new position entitled Director of Windows Client Dis...
I discovered Oscar Alexander’s tutorial on snazzy HTML rounded buttons a while back, but needed it for something just a minute ago. It’s a fantastically easy way to create really attractive link buttons without much work and without using Javascri...
A while back, I created a table detailing every system color from every official Windows theme in existence. I keep moving or misplacing this page for some reason, but the link below works: Here’s the table of Windows system colors in its entire...
I’ve been using MooTools for the past month on a personal project, and I couldn’t be happier. In my new job, I’ve been boning up on my Prototype skillz. I certainly don’t mind Prototype, although I do find it to be a little heavy. The one thing th...
Up is down! White is black! Cats and dogs living in sin! Program Managers doing graphic design work! The horror! My friend Doug, one of our Product Managers on Visual Studio Express, contacted me in a bit of a panic a few weeks ago. It turns out ...
Girls who go "Woo!"
Love it or hate it, Twitter’s obviously on fire. Even though (or perhaps because) the idea is so ludicrously simple, there’s clearly a great deal of momentum behind the site and platform. It’s always helpful to be reminded that such things come fr...