Entries written in June 2008
I’ve been away in Peoria, Ill. without reliable internet access for the past week… so not much of a reading list this time. We’ll return to normal tomorrow.
Jobs’ greatest contributions at Apple have likely been to kill or sideline a lot of good projects in order to focus the company’s efforts and resources on only the most exceptional ones. In contrast, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have apparently thrown every product concept within Microsoft at the market
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- Wordle - Create beautiful word clouds
- Every manager, web designer, or web developer should read this excellent presentation on why frontend engineering matters at Yahoo!. (pdf link provided.) I’m serious. go read it. Now.
- The Proper Consumption of Smarties
- Article at Roughly Drafted on Sproutcore, Apple’s Javascript Framework for the iPhone and web. (Thanks, Kris!)
- Captain Jack Sparrow in 5 minutes — I think I learned more about drawing from this video than I have in eight years of hanging out with web comic artists.
- Apple Developer Documentation:
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- An architect hid a puzzle in a family’s home as it was built, and later sent them the clue that would start unlocking the home’s secrets.
- The top ten home cooking mistakes. - Actually, a list of suggestions on how to make your home cooking better. Via
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The version of the command-line svn client for OSX is badly out of date — I think it’s 1.1 or something stupid like that. (Apple has done a poor job of keeping command line utils up to date!)
The SCPlugin available via the Tigris.org website is -OK-, but not …
IPSCA offers free certs to .edu; If you’re not .edu it’s still pretty cheap. Requires an intermediate cert pack for firefox, but the root cert is built into both firefox and IE.
Jason Kottke wants your survival tips if he’s accidentally transported to the middle ages. I’ve thought about this a lot too — what would happen if I got plunked down somewhere with no access to the tools, medicines, clothing / outerwear, or basic survival products like tools that I’m …
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