So I killed the old blogroll on the right column today. I just don't have time to keep up with it. I've noticed that on alot of blogs actually. I figure it's better to just point to people I'm currently reading. I also have the distinct feeling that very few people actually ever navigated to those other sites via my blogroll.
There's also the great side benefit of the page loading noticeably faster than before.
Om Malik has the scoop on the deal. Congrats to Nick. I've been using his products for years starting with Homesite. Looks like he's moving to the Newsgator team as well. Generally I don't think it's good for the developer to move to the new corp but hopefully it works out for him, I'm sure we'll get more details tomorrow.
"Over the last year and a half I've been trying to get my dream of starting a software company from "a dream" to reality. I have been developing a Project Management web application at night and on the weekends. I still have a long way to go before my app is "shippable", but I want to start talking about the decisions I've had to make and some of my experiences while developing it. Hopefully a few of you will find these ramblings informative, entertaining, or relatable. If I'm lucky at some point these ramblings might even be able to generate some all-important "buzz" around my upcoming product. :)"
Michael Sica has a new blog about getting his new product up and rolling. Sounds interesting, something to keep and eye on. As for his language choice, I went through the same process and came to a different conclusion. Always interesting when that happens.
Good luck Mike!
There's a really cool little park near our house that we walk over to a few times a week. Me and my wife usually walk around a lake there. Earlier in the week we discovered that the geese who inhabit the area have had babies! So yesterday I took a few pictures. Click the picture for a quicktime picture movie.
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This is pretty amazing. Use any font in a normal web page. Interesting how they did it.
"Ideally, you want A and B to be identical as possible, or at least, in sync. The things that A is passionate about, B should also be passionate about. This we call "alignment". A good example would be Apple. The people at Apple think the iPod is cool, and so do their customers. They are aligned."
"When A and B are no longer aligned is when the company starts getting into trouble. When A starts saying their gizmo is great and B is telling everybody it sucks, then you have serious misalignment." (via gapingvoid)
Interesting article about startups keeping their innovation alive and the recent Jotspot hackathon.
"I-came-up-with-this-great-idea-which-I-built-over-the-weekend-and-look-how-cool-it-is"
http://www.kottke.org/05/05/ajax-weblogs
Check out the post and new drop down box at the top. I have to say (again) that I don't really think this is that great. What's it saving me? A quick page refresh? Sure there's not quick refresh but there's also no indication that my command has been received. Here he's switching out 70% of his page. At that point I think you need a page refresh and not an AJAX call.
So far I like AJAX for things like instant feedback simple searching that keeps you from having to do it a bunch, I really like live updating potential answers in a text box like Google Suggest, because it's extremely transparent to the user and things still work if AJAX fails. I just have to say that I don't like it for replacing such a large portion of the page.
"That's really what ColdFusion is all about; making hard things easy. That's what we did for basic data-driven websites since day one, ten years ago. That's what we did in ColdFusion MX 7 for a new class of hard things; printing web content, business reports, apps for mobile phones and instant messaging, and so forth."
" khujifig writes "The Beeb are carrying a story looking at the challenges facing Microsoft in the next few years. This includes a brief description of the M.Home (sans Clippy) which the Beeb describes as "a far cry from real life", and a discussion of the next few years competition for Microsoft. They go on to highlight Linux, OpenOffice.org, the GIMP and Firefox (which Gates himself has used: "I played around with it a bit, but it's just another browser, and IE [Microsoft's Internet Explorer] is better,"), and look Apple in relation to Longhorn. Not as bad a read as I was expecting. Their summary: Microsoft is under 'attack' on all fronts, and either needs to innovate or die. "Why use Microsoft if you have a broadband connection and combine Firefox with powerful web services like Google's Gmail?."" It should be said, tho', that articles like this have been written about MSFT for a long time - and there's still billions in their war-chest."
As I've said before, if Microsoft goes south it's not going to be general open source linux that wins, it's going to be Red Hat or Suse or some other organization which packages up linux and offers support. That's why I don't see it as a big "win" like others do. Companies don't want to support an entire OS even if they can edit the kernel. Who cares? I know I wouldn't want programmers who worked for my company spending all day writing kernel patches when they could be working on my own companies software.