Archive for November, 2007

Cluelessness

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Is valleywag just trolling yahoo? Who is giving them their info? Everything I read about yahoo on valleywag is wrong on the facts. Sort of makes me wonder about the rest of the info on that site.

Yahoo Webdevs via Pipes

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Naitik has made a pipe where you can follow the blogs of a large number of frontend devs at yahoo.

Interesting reading in general. Lots of smart people at this company.

Amazing infographics

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Check these out.

Via: telstar logistics

The Kindle

Monday, November 19th, 2007

So amazon has an ebook service and a pretty neat little reader. Ok, so eInk is really cool, take that as read. And I agree that the important part of a book is the data, not the medium. But the thing costs $400 freakin’ dollars. It isn’t compatible with my favorite book service, so if I want to read books on it I need to provide my own text or shell out $10 a book. I am just not really sold on the thing. Intellectually I understand that digital data ought to be distributed digitally.

But I would like to avoid having to spend money for yet another kind of media-viewing device, and frankly, I like books.

Zakas on ECMAscript4: It sucks

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

And so far, I agree. Javascript is broken. But it isn’t broken because it doesn’t have formal class declarations and strict typing!

Read the post.