Watch for all sorts of follow-up, discussion (and possibly a shouting match or two) over at O’Reilly Radar, where Tim O’Reilly starts a series of articles titled Programming Language Wars. In Part One, he presents a graph comparing book sales on computer languages between January 2006 and January 2007, based on data from the Bookscan [...]
Perhaps most of the tips listed in the article 12 Quick Tips To Search Google Like An Expert might be old news to you, but there may be one or two tricks in the list that you might have missed. In my case, I was unaware of the “numeric range” search, such as this one: [...]
Designer/developer Joshua Porter lists his five design principles in the latest post on his blog, Bokardo:
Technology serves humans.
Design is not art.
The experience belongs to the user.
Great design in invisible.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Pretty sound advice. Even if we could only get techies to follow principle 1 and artists/designers/ponytails to follow principle 2, that would solve [...]
If you’re like most of our readers and live in the U.S. and Canada, it’s time to enjoy your last week of standard time. Come this Sunday, daylight saving time begins — a full three weeks earlier than usual.
The change to daylight saving time is deceptively simple in appearance. In 2005, the Energy Policy Act [...]