November 2009
12 posts
merlin:
tristn:
“Brooks’s law is a principle in software development which says that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”. It was coined by Fred Brooks in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks adds that “Nine women can’t make a baby in one month”.” —
Brooks’s law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Only thing more astounding than the immutability of this...
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WatchYou-Centric: The Future of Browsing on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
This is a great talk! I was really impressed when Aza presented Mozilla’s Ubiquity.
Ubiquity is often descibed as Quicksilver for the browser or the web.
Ubiquity is a Firefox extension that lets you write and execute commands right inside Firefox. So for example you can translate words on the current page, edit images on the...
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Chrome OS: Internet failing at PC > PC failing at... →
Saving files, copying them, syncing them—this is all pointless clerical work that I want my computer to do for me. ChromeOS officially nukes the “file” as a core user-facing OS abstraction. This is a huge victory for users everywhere[…]
(via Daring Fireball)
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Chrome OS And The Microsoft Squeeze →
Interesting article by The Washington Post on Chrome OS and what this might mean for Microsoft and Windows.
Google isn’t trying to compete with a standard OS, they’re trying to help users realize that for the majority of computing they do, they don’t need one in the first place. Maybe you have a desktop computer at home for those few tasks that need dedicated native...
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The New Wave Of Operating Systems
I find the recent discussion about Google’s Chrome OS and other operating systems/netbook solutions like Litl or HyperSpace very interesting.
The idea to use a computer as a thin client ‘just’ to access the web is really great. All your data is stored on the internet and all you use are web applications to accomplish your tasks.
I think there is a huge potential for these type...
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Log in or sign up? →
Both! In the same form. I like when people care that much about their UI and UX.
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write...”
– Martin Fowler, “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code”
via How can you be a quality programmer in a programming team? - Stack Overflow
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RubyCAS talk slides
Yesterday, at the Ruby Meetup Auckland, I gave a short talk on RubyCAS and CAS in general.
You can find the slides at Google Docs.
“The dirty little secret about simple: It’s actually hard to do. That’s why most...”
– How Chipotle, Pinkberry, and others win big by doing just a few things well - (37signals)
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“There’s a common attribute that makes for good designers, good engineers,...”
– Dustin Curtis