Archive for May, 2001

 

Joel on Software

May 30th, 2001

By the way, whenever usability experts point to Microsoft Office products as an “example” of horrendous usability, they are usually being disingenuous and just pandering to the crowd. In my opinion they're just attacking the products with the biggest market share because most of their listeners will have experience with some Microsoft UI problem. The [...]

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Geek house

May 29th, 2001

Salon.com Technology | Geek house. Patrick Deutsch has turned an average Vallejo, Calif., condominium into a 21st century Taj Mahal. Using motion sensors, infrared transmitters, cameras and dozens of other products that communicate with each other via a protocol known as “X-10,” he's created a hip bachelor pad that's extremely, well, sensitive. [Privacy Digest]

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Bray: The web moves too slowly

May 24th, 2001

Bray: The web moves too slowly. XML co-editor Tim Bray declared that the web moves too slowly – it's becoming boring and it's time to get XML in front of people. [xmlhack]

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Rendering Effective Route Maps

May 23rd, 2001

Rendering Effective Route Maps: Improving Usability Through Generalization | “Route maps, which depict a path from one location to another, have emerged as one of the most popular applications on the Web. Current computer-generated route maps, however, are often very difficult to use. In this paper we present a set of cartographic generalization techniques specifically [...]

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David Gelernter's New Desktop

May 23rd, 2001

FEED Magazine: David Gelernter's New Desktop. Users can browse this stream of cards or search by keyword, topic, or file type. Scopeware is an elegant alternative to the current desktop, an interface that, in Gelernter's view, is still mired in a bygone era when megabytes were scarce and CPUs lethargic. [Tomalak's Realm]

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Python: The one-size-fits-all programming language

May 22nd, 2001

LinuxWorld: Python: The one-size-fits-all programming language “I don't mean to rekindle the Python versus Java wars that raged a few years back. Each language has its place. Neither is perfect for every need, although Python is closer than Java to being a one-size-fits-all language. But I happen to be as big a fan of Java [...]

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Perl Program Repair Shop and Red Flags

May 22nd, 2001

O'Reilly: Perl Program Repair Shop and Red Flags “Most years, I have to slave over new tutorials. But this one almost wrote itself once I found the right examples. I'd start with someone's 71-line Perl program, and go over it line by line. Each time I came to a line that was unnecessary, I'd take [...]

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The Standard

May 21st, 2001

The Standard: “American students' grasp of math and science pales in comparison to other countres. Why? Because our textbooks are so inaccurate that the Earth might as well be flat.”

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Stapler

May 21st, 2001

Stapler is a “tool for Radio UserLand that creates RSS feeds from sources you select, scraped hourly (or every N hours, variable for each source) from HTML web sites.” [via Dave's Handsome Radio Blog] [Adam Curry: CurryDotCom]

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Simple Dublin Core Encoding in XML

May 18th, 2001

Simple Dublin Core Encoding in XML [More Like This WebLog]

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