Weaning myself off Windows has resulted in many happymakers (no, that’s not a word, and yes, the Swedish influence is creeping into my English). One of them is saying goodbye to the crap software churned out by Adobe.
No longer do I gasp in terror when I click on a PDF link. Adobe Reader pretty much [...]
You may have noticed the affiliate sales pitch on the right side of my blog. If you did, you probably read it because I have enough respect for you, the reader, to explain in sentences why I think Lunarpages is a good deal, to openly admit my affiliate status, and to suggest that they are [...]
If you’re a CTO, you will inevitably have a similar exchange with “the suits” in your company.
Evolvist CEO: This guy wrote a Web 2.0 app in 66 hours. Why did ours take longer to build?
Me: Because he designed the thing himself, (admittedly) tossed features he thought were too complicated, didn’t deal with changing requirements until [...]
After coding in a clean, light language like Ruby for so long, I am not liking Java. It’s the same feeling as when you’ve been on a juice-and-salad diet for weeks and then you eat steak. Three times a day.
Thanks to Jim for this gem (get it? get it? Oh, I crack myself up!):
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Should links open in new windows or not? Some insist that a target=”_blank” in external links makes users stay on a site longer. My answer: Don’t. Do. It.
It’s well-documented why you should not. In short, users are smart enough to open a new window when they wish, and would like the use of their back [...]
If you’re a sysadmin, and can’t be at your computer 24 hours a day, here is how to get downtime alerts sent via SMS, for free, in 3 steps:
Sign up at Montastic.com to have your site monitored for downtime
Get the URL for your Montastic RSS feed
Go to Yahoo Alerts and have that shit sent to [...]
It is often frustrating to deal with web development clients who don’t know everything about the web. Recently, I explained to a client that her new site would “not be stuck in a frame of a certain width” but would “expand to fit the size of the window”. In other words, my partner toiled day [...]
I’m seriously annoyed. All of my favorite sites are full of “09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0″ this and “09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0″ that. Everyone is IMing me saying, “Hey did you hear about 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0??? Isn’t it amazing? Yeah! Dissent! I’m a badass! I’m putting this on my site even if I *gasp* get sued.” News flash: there’s no way everyone in the [...]