Commentary on Digital Media and Usability.
This sounds like a situation where I hope some rep from Microsoft will intervene and offer the guy his reward.
via I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost “Just Because”
March 26th, 2012 at 10:03 amThis is a online document creation tool that you can work on in realtime with other people with chat. Good for notes and documentation or getting feedback where the other party can make amendments in realtime. (click frog to start)
via Piratepad Beta
March 22nd, 2012 at 10:06 amA valuable lesson for anyone running a website:
After working out a few technical kinks and several botched emails, thanks to missing line breaks, we sent out a final test email to ourselves. Unfortunately, it went out to every user
fetchworthy notes • What Happens When You Swear At Your Users.
February 7th, 2012 at 10:04 amThe price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX for the iPad – Valletta Ventures.
The first step in compiling WEB code is to run TANGLE to produce unhelpful Pascal source files. Thoughtfully the TeX build system includes a translator to produce compilable C files. Although WEB was hugely influential as the progenitor of modern source code documentation it is now obsolete, and modern extensions to TeX have been written in C. This is compiled alongside the translated WEB code. It is not hard to imagine the effect this has on the readability of the codebase.
Why programming is not yet as advanced as nature in evolution.
November 22nd, 2011 at 12:34 pmHere are some of the most useful coding and workflow tools released recently.
via Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For Web Developers
October 31st, 2011 at 2:12 pmUnicode can be an issue that's hard to resolve, so it's guide to use the guidance in this document and ALWAYS use unicode where possible.
via HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack
August 25th, 2011 at 3:01 pmIf you are looking for guidance on how how to format your code, you could do worse than to base it this coding standards styleguide.
via WordPress Coding Standards
August 22nd, 2011 at 10:14 am