August 2007
Aug. 25, 2007
At one point I thought I hated programming because I was just so sick it... It turns out I don't hate programming, I just hate programming in Java.
Why the Alt Attribute May Be Omitted. “The benefit of requiring the alt attribute to be omitted, rather than simply requiring the empty value, is that it makes a clear distinction between an image that has no alternate text (such as an iconic or graphical representation of the surrounding text) and an image that is a critical part of the content, but for which not alt text is available.”
A Django Cache Status. Django view to display stats pulled from your memcached server.
Aug. 29, 2007
Google Web Toolkit: Towards a better web. Good overview of why GWT exists, but I take exception to the title: requiring JavaScript to even display something does not make the web “better”.
The biggest mistake I made in Leonardo was making "foo" and "foo/" mean the same thing.
Aug. 30, 2007
Thoughts on (and pics of) the original Macintosh User Manual. “[I] was struck by how it had to explain a total paradigm shift in interacting with computers”.
Long pages work. And thanks to Pay Per Click advertising, splitting an article over multiple pages to get more ad impressions doesn’t make sense any more.
Ganeti (via) New from Google (developed in the Zurich office): virtual server management tool designed to “facilitate cluster management”, built on top of Xen.
XFML (via) Throwing the new home for the XFML specification some Google juice; the domain name got nabbed by a squatter.
Aug. 31, 2007
They promised us jetpacks, too. Ben Hammersley points out that the recent flying car story has done the rounds many times before. I’m sure I remember it from my childhood.
A meeting must fight to exist. It must defend its existence to its attendees who should constantly be asking "Why are we here?"
— Rands
Python 3.0a1 released. Wow, that was a pretty fast turnaround. Betas are planned for 2008, with a final release scheduled for August.
Webistrano. Web based interface for managing Capistrano deployments. Cal recommends having a “deploy to live site” button in his book; this looks like an easy way to build that.