Rogers Cadenhead just wrote on another conference with no women among the speakers. It’s rather alarming how the ‘new’ technologies seem to be completely devoid of women, yet I know there are women working in these fields. Did we forget the club handshake? Miss out on when the secret decoder rings were sent around? Anyway, I have […]
PPK at SxSW
PPK, writer of QuirksMode, has a panel proposal in at SxSW I wanted to point out to those of you attending. PPK is well known in the JavaScript circles and someone I respect for his good, commonsense approach to web page development–particularly with JavaScript. Yes, I am pointing you to a competitor, because he’s worth being pointed to […]
Stop re-inventing this wheel
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Perhaps at SxSW, PPK can convince the new horde of Ajax developers to stop acting as if that they’ve invented the technology, all squeaky new. Via link from Ajaxian, the concept of ‘transparent’ messages from Humanized. Issues of accessibility and usability aside–been there, done that, wrote the book (page 240 to be exact).
On zoos compared to free
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Two friends recently reflected on their recent trips to zoos. Dave Rogers posted photos of his zoo trip yesterday and also mentioned his ambiguity about zoos. Loren Webster posted photos from a zoo trip he too recently, and he’s also mentioned in the past about his ambivalence towards these institutions. I myself have posted […]
Fear no tech
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. From the new Pew Survey on future of the internet: A low-cost global network will be thriving and creating new opportunities in a “flattening” world. Humans will remain in charge of technology, even as more activity is automated and “smart agents” proliferate. However, a significant 42% of survey respondents were pessimistic […]
