Whatever works is good enough. If you can understand what the customer wants, you win. Of course, if your customer doesn’t know what they want, then it is like arguing with your wife: no matter how right you are, you are still sleeping on the couch. http://ischenko.blogspot.com/2004/12/quote-of-week.html
Details how MS violates the TCP spec and the implications for IE, IIS and Apache.
People (rightly) detect Microsoft’s poor support in IE for industry standards. Small ones perhaps from piddling little organizations, like, oh, say the W3C. But I’m sure it’ll all be fixed in the next version. Oh. Wait. There are no more versions of IE…
Interesting summation why Verdana (and Georgia) is particularly good for computer screens.
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=31626#155503 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=31626#155504 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=31626#155517 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=31626#155522 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=31626#155553 http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=31626#155657 That last one cuts to the heart of the matter. I don’t understand JSF in real detail (yet). Seems to me Java Servlet == ISAPI == Apache Module JSP == ASP == PHP JSF == ASP.NET Which means JSF ‘should be’ better than the (Java-world) alternatives, as it’s a [...]
Interesting post covering the JDO2 and EJB3 evolution to date, or so it would seem.
Someone asked for the set of links I regularly read/monitor. If you’re a developer, doing things like I do, then you’ll probably find this moderately not worthless. Sifted by category. [x] indicates how often I tend (or try) to visit. YMMV. Technology News Slashdot [daily] The Register Microsoft Watch [weekly] i, cringely [weekly - updated [...]
