Posted by mattc at Jun 26, 07 05:05 AM
Criticisms of Perl from a Bugzilla developer and the steps he would go to porting the application to an alternate language, along with some good rebutals.
Posted by mattc at Jun 25, 07 05:05 AM
'If it wasn't for the ability to stuff the 'document' object into the namespace of the JavaScript code running in your browser, nobody would be using JavaScript today", and other criticisms of JS2
Brendan Eich's JS2 talk at last years xtech.
variable assignation, I HAS A CHEEZBURGER ITZ 1
Posted by mattc at Jun 24, 07 04:08 PM ... Comments (0)
An interesting conversation from this week's Bottom Line on Radio 4.
On the theme of longevity in design Evan Davis paraphrases one of his guests, Keith Clarke, Chief Executive of the engineering consultancy WS Atkins :-
Clarke: Usually the way you think you will expand is wrong...
Davis: What you are saying [on designing for the future] is it's not about how long you plan for it's about how much flexibility you build in to what you design, and obviously it will last longer if it's more flexible.
Posted by mattc at Jun 23, 07 05:05 AM
I knew about all the inspection and logging tools, but until today never had an excuse to play around with the command line interface to Firebug. Enjoying $x
I'm creating a tracing window to be used across multiple pages, here's how to fix orphaned popup windows by broadcasting their existance to the opener.
Posted by mattc at Jun 21, 07 05:05 AM
'The whole thing is the visual equivalent of a moronic clip-art jumble sale poster designed in the dark by a myopic divorcee experiencing a freak biorhythmic high." Charlie Brooker on poor interface design.
Posted by mattc at Jun 19, 07 05:05 AM
Approach to innovation without R&D.
Posted by mattc at Jun 17, 07 02:10 PM ... Comments (2)
Although I was unable to turn up on the Sunday, I thought I would tidy up a couple of hours worth of Saturday's hacking effort in to something functional.
The idea, entitled A Cloud of Teenage Angst, experiments with a way of nesting tag clouds (aka. weighted lists) inside each other to clarify the meaning of the terms.
It uses the data from the weekly BBC Slink agony aunt column.
The main cloud is formed from the keywords that the BBC editorial team have associated with each column. Selecting a term in this cloud will result in a mini-cloud being inserted in to the document comprising of a frequency analysis of words in all agony columns containing the parent term.
Because the words most often used in free text tend to be the canonical ones (rather than slang, abbreviations etc.) we can create a fairly accurate nested cloud that better describes unfamiliar, abstract, or duplicte entries in the main cloud.
Would be interested in trying this on bigger sets of data.
Posted by mattc at Jun 14, 07 05:05 AM
Fantastically useful guide to getting things done in your shell.
Posted by mattc at Jun 12, 07 05:05 AM
Six Apart also announced the inauguration of the Movable Type Open Source Project
Posted by mattc at Jun 5, 07 05:05 AM
Wisdom of Crowds experiment, where 50,000 people purchase then run a football club. Will get really interesting if we can become more involve, filing scouting reports from across the world etc.
There are many characteristic experiences that are associated with fun ...
Interesting article that highlights that part of the reason for Google's not so stunning performance in non-search products is the lack of promotional space given to them in their main (search) landing page.
Short piece about spliting internal innovation from production, but not in a remote R&D team way.
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