Much has been written about the imminent decline of Western civilization due to the twin threats of text and instant messages. I’ve always prided myself on my ability to write complete sentences, but I occasionally worry about whether today’s adol...
No respectable Windows developer would try debugging their application with printf()’s or Console.WriteLine()’s, so why would you try doing the same thing with Javascript? Yeesh. I’ve been hacking a fair amount of Javascript and Ajaxy things latel...
This has been one of those months where I wonder to myself whether becoming a goat herder would represent, net-net, an overall improvement in my life. Hmm.
Joel Spolsky has an interesting essay up on his site entitled Choices = Headaches, which explores the myriad options available in Windows Vista for…leaving your computer: Every time you want to leave your computer, you have to choose between nine,...
Anna Bradley, the CEO of Criterion 508 Solutions, will be giving a talk at the Access Board, a Federal agency for accessibility, on December 13th. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any clear sense of what Anna will actually be talking about....
One of my least-favorite pieces of software ever is Mail 2.x, included in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. What was a stable, reasonably performant, sensible, and usable mail client in previous iterations has become "hideously ugly," and "inflexible, inconsis...
Stuart Brown of Modern Life is Rubbish published an interesting article a couple days ago on the fonts used in Web 2.0 companies’ logotypes, including such gems as Interstate and Frutiger (I love those fonts). Unfortunately, he didn’t go into any ...
It seems you can’t go anywhere these days without hearing about web standards this or web standards that. Jeff Atwood on Coding Horror published an interesting blog post on Monday talking about the amount of care and respect Google appears to have...
Akamai and Jupiter Research issued a press release last week stating that any amount of time over four seconds is considered an unacceptable delay in loading a page on a retail website. They cited several negative consequences of ignoring said adv...
One of the big, new features in Windows Vista is User Account Control, which is designed to… ...reduce the exposure and attack surface of the operating system by requiring that all users run in standard user mode. This limitation minimizes the abi...