BurningbirdEdwards responded to the criticism of Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan: The tone and the sentiment of some of Amanda Marcotte’s and Melissa McEwan’s posts personally offended me. It’s not how I talk to people, and it’s not how I expect the people who work for me to talk to people. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, […]
I like my cheese sandwiches grilled, with slices of bread and butter pickles. Or with ham on sour dough. I spent the day completely tearing apart my bedroom/office, moving tables around so that I have my PC laptop on one side of my TV and my Powerbook on the other. With the DVI to HDMI […]
I finally uploaded chapter 7 for the reviewers, and was it a difficult chapter to do. The topic has to do with breaking the web with Ajax, putting it back together again, and what are known as ‘single-page’ applications. After thinking on it for days, and looking at some extraordinarily torturous ways of patching together […]
Melinda at Sour Duck has pointers to two interesting and oddly related stories. The first is The Dark Side of Community: The core problem is how to handle conflict in a medium that enables rapid escalation of conflict. I’m not clear on what constitutes a full-blown “blog war”, but I think the phrase isn’t necessarily helpful […]
I just uploaded the largest chapter, 9, and had hoped to get 10 loaded tonight, but my mind isn’t working well. Aha, I though, write in the weblog instead. This has been such a difficult book in more ways than one. The examples were huge and now, during editing, I have to find some way […]