February 2010
11 posts
Law of Two Feet or “The Law of Mobility”
If at any time during our time together you find yourself in any situation where you are neither learning nor contributing, use your two feet. Go to some other place where you may learn and contribute.
via Wikipedia
Basically, you’re only as good to me as what I can contribute or get out of you. It’s a pretty businesslike perspective but I think it applies really well to websites we visit or...
Commet about comments
Comments can be beneficial, but usually aren’t. For the vast majority of comment-enabled blogs, the comments are a net loss for the author with very high rates of ad-hominem attacks, nastiness, nonsensical responses, and spam.
via 37signals
It’s kinda ironic since the quote itself comes from a comment.
One third of the traffic on this blog is to this... →
It’s crazy to see that a little SEO actually works. I wrote a post that would be useful to web developers, I put some keywords in the title and headers, and then I got a couple of links to it from other websites. That’s kind of a simplified version of things but it’s a repeatable process that has proven to generate (a little) traffic.
Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation →
via Harvard Business School
If some day I ever become a manager I hope that I excel at these things.
What restaurant websites say to web developers
“Take a look at our menu! It’s a PDF of a screenshot of a scan of a Word document printed on a dishtowel.”
– Restaurant website
There are too many restaurants with websites for all of them to be good. It’s especially difficult with tiny marketing budgets and short timelines.
These guys really know how to do “experience... →
This headline should be “20 Percent Of TechCrunch... →
… instead of “20 Percent Of TechCrunch Readers Are Already Browsing With Chrome.” They say that as if it’s inevitable that everyone will eventually browse with Google Chrome.
This pisses me off a little
Kevin Lynch (emphasis added):
Adobe supports HTML and its evolution and we look forward to adding more capabilities to our software around HTML as it evolves. If HTML could reliably do everything Flash does that would certainly save us a lot of effort, but that does not appear to be coming to pass. Even in the case of video, where Flash is enabling over 75% of video on the Web today, the coming...
HAML Sucks for Content →
This actually taught more about HAML than the documentation.
Flash 10.1 optimized for Mac OS X
With Flash Player 10.1, we are optimizing video rendering further on the Mac and expect to reduce CPU usage by half…
Well! That’s exciting news. I’m looking forward to a better Hulu experience.
via John Nack on Adobe
Maybe I don’t hate Microsoft so much.
The company’s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, has continued to deliver huge profits. They totaled well over $100 billion in the past 10 years alone and help sustain the economies of Seattle, Washington State and the nation as a whole. Its founder, Bill Gates, is not only the most generous philanthropist in history, but has also inspired thousands of his employees to give generously themselves....