Archive for July, 2008
iPhone
Is having an iPhone the tech equivalent of wearing a Rolex?
The hyper corrective browser
I just had a discussion via Twitter about the desired behavior of browsers during an endless javascript loop (e.g. while(true){alert(“test”);}). One of my friends suggested that browsers should correct this kind of code. Browsers should do this in order to prevent endless loops that crash you browser or your operating system. This really sounds horrible [...]
No!
Figure out your vision and run with it — don’t always let your customers define your application. If some of your users want to take your app in a different direction, you don’t have to let them. Just tell them “no.” Jason Fried’s theory of “opinionated software”
What social media is not
Social Media is not about individuals, it only is about its own gods and half gods. Social Media is also not definable since it is everything you want it to be and everything anyone else wants it to be. People who like to catch it in a few lines do not understand Social Media, since [...]
about:config the new Windows registry?
I was scrolling in the about:config of my Firefox install and I noticed quite a lot entries of old add-ons that removed. Why aren’t these settings removed from about:config? It just felt the Windows registry which can contain a lot of humbug keys of old software of installation things. Is Firefox’ about:config its successor?
XML
XML is pleasing to the eye as a fork drenched in lemon juice
Acid3 and 4, why even bother?
Since a few days I am one of the bloggers on the Capgemini Technology blog Capping IT off. This is an excerpt of my first blogposting: If you are in some way involved in web development you might know the Acid tests. These tests check if and how well a web browser completes a certain [...]
