Entries Tagged as 'feature'
Dos and Do Nots of a good web bug report
In my day, I’ve received no shortage of bug reports. Generally speaking, I build web apps, so these are bug reports that have to do with problems found on a website - either public facing or else internal administrative pages. I get a lot of bad bug reports that generally cause me to spend time [...]
Categories: development · feature · list
On the official Palm blog
So it’s been a couple of months since the blog.palm.com launched, the official mouthpiece of Palm. I don’t think I’m being unfair in calling it an abject failure. One wonders what Palm was thinking when they launched it, it is like they had no idea what they wanted to do with it but felt they [...]
Developer Hubris
You know, I complain about a lot of people’s hubris. Overzealous bloggers and Web2.0 talking heads tend to get the brunt of that fixation. I wrote that piece about how non-technical people, in general, tend to trust what a technical person tells them more than they would someone telling them something they didn’t know in [...]
Flash for everything!
So, I’ve been meaning to write up my thoughts on this since Jason commented on the use of sIFR for typographic headlines. As is my way, it took me awhile to get to it which is fortunate because I just read about BritePic (via techcrunch) - so now, there being two, it’s a trend. Yup, [...]
Categories: feature · flash apps
On the eternally approaching death of print media
So Tim O’Reilly notes that the San Francisco Chronicle is in trouble and this is another launching point for bloggers everywhere to promote the death of stodgy old media and the rise of miraculous new online media.
Let’s look at this one by Dave Winer. He’s got the solution to print media’s problems, he’s told you [...]
On serendipity in the web experience
Lately I’ve been thinking about serendipity in the discovery of pages while surfing the web. With all the noodling around I’ve been doing with Yahoo Pipes (bear with me, this post isn’t about Pipes but rather a lucky byproduct of how I’ve used it…), I’ve installed a few widgets on this blog - the first [...]
On the reaction to USA Today’s new social features
Here’s something that’s been bothering me. USA Today, relatively recently, relaunched their website with a new design and some interesting community features, notably comments and ratings. Reception of this was decidedly mixed. Some of the complaints are about the design and while I don’t really love it, I don’t particularly hate it either, it’s kind [...]
For Sale: Palm
So there’s all kinds of talk that Palm is putting itself on the block, looking for someone to put it out of it’s misery. Seems, people are reporting that Palm while profitable now has seen the iPhone writing on the wall and wants to get out while the gettings good. To me, this sounds perfectly [...]
On using tables for html layouts
Ok, so the standardistas decry using tables for layouts, using divs and css is the one true way. You lose the ability to restyle things drastically by changing just the stylesheet, they say. But do you really lose that? It has been my experience that if you have a site with complex layouts, to do [...]
Did Open Source ever have a halo?
A week or so back, I came across an article asking if Open Source had lost it’s halo. The author, seems confused on several points about open source, seeming to take elements of the Free Software movement and simply free like beer software without any seeming understanding of what Open Source means.
The article starts with [...]
Categories: feature · free software
