Category: Quick Posts

Contrast – Designing your sign up page
The initial sign-up page is the hardest for me to judge in terms of effectiveness.
March 13, 2011
PhobosLab – The State of HTML5 Audio
I especially enjoy the specific complaints directed at Apple and Microsoft for only supporting MP3.
March 10, 2011
guardian.co.uk – Ebooks: durability is a feature, not a bug
As tends to be the case, so on your side Cory Doctorow.
March 8, 2011
BBC News – New net rules set to make cookies crumble
That’s not a fun change to make, especially because if people choose to reject cookies, they’ll want to know why the site acts so differently.
March 8, 2011
jacquesmattheij.com – what a programmer does for a living
I did something similar to this when teaching an Intro to Computer Science course.
March 8, 2011
NYTimes.com – Brigitte Gabriel Draws Crowds in U.S. With Anti-Islam Message
Fear much like sex sells, for better or worse.
March 8, 2011
NYTimes.com – Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law
Humans beat a law made up by humans.
March 8, 2011
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law That Removes Works from the Public Domain
This should be declared unconstitutional, once work goes in the public domain, the work should stay there, perpetual copyright is a bad deal.
March 8, 2011
GitHub – digdog – UIDickBar
Don’t use it, but you knew it was coming.
March 8, 2011
Freedom to Tinker – Seals on NJ voting machines, March 2009
So security seals protecting those voting machines, useless.
March 8, 2011