Monthly Archives: September 2007

Ant & Phing

Julien, who is a super genius, has a write up building apps with ant, including the all important concatenation of js and css files. In my experience a shocking number of people working on web apps have no build process beyond “copy the files to the server”. Tools like ant make it easy to deploy. [...]

I agree with this post

People in San Francisco have a tendency to fight any change (like everyone I suppose). But in a city that has no more land and is growing at the pace this one is the only choices are building up or accepting that everyone will be priced out of the rental and housing market.

IE Sucks…Still

Alex writes up the state of the art from microsoft. The word “sucktastic” comes to mind.

Amazon Redesigns — Still uses tables for layout

Amazon.com has redesigned. It looks pretty, but I am a little disappointed they didn’t modernize a little. I am sure they had their reasons, but I think there is no excuse for using tables for layout anymore. Also they really could improve performance, the signed in home page takes around 6 seconds to load. Its [...]

New and Shiny

I love new and shiny things. So I am basically in favor of all the new building projects in SF. I am all for tall buildings.