Nov 21, 2006
One of those months
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.
Aaron Brethorst (Page 109)
Elsewhere on the web
Nov 21, 2006
Ajax
Web development tools every Windows developer must have
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...
Nov 18, 2006
Usability
Optimize your UI' readability - why Apple Mail sucks
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...
Nov 16, 2006
Web Design
Font faces of the movers and shakers
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 ...
Nov 15, 2006
Web Design
Here' what your search engine thinks about Web standards
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...