Archive | July, 2004

Joel Spolsky: Things You Should Never Do, Part I

A summer re-run for you: Joel on Software from June of 2000:

There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over.

Good reading. A great deal of my job is working with clients and
pre-existing code bases. From the many folks I’ve worked with, I’ve
learned that my tolerance level for Other People’s Code (OPC) is much
higher than most.  They shipped it, it works, well, mostly, it
paid for the ir kids orthodonture, and clients are using it to make
money. There’s a lot of good in there.

No iMacs until September

Apple says no iMacs until September.
With inventories of flat panel iMacs dwindling, Apple has announced
that there will be no more iMacs until September. Details on the new
iMacs remain a mystery. [Ars Technica]

If you haven’t see Steve Jobs’ keynote from the recent World Wide
Developer Conference, you can catch it (in streaming QuickTime, natch) here.
For those of you without an hour and a half to kill, here’s the
highlights: OS X Next is “Tiger” shipping 1H 2004, “years ahead of
Longhorn” stated at least five times, some cool little widgets,
excellent GPU integration for video and image effects native to the OS,
many, many enhancements and improvements. iPods got a special interface
with new BMWs (bleh) and Coopers (cool).. Latest cinema display: 30″,
4.1 megapixels. Woah.

Oh, and Safari (the Apple browser) ships with RSS know-how built in. Looks promising.

More on ListGarden

A pretty slick little package, ListGarden
is. A single downloadable file for Windows, it unpacks the Perl runtime
DLL when run and cleans up after itself. It runs on a local machine or
installed on a web server and presents a simple and easy-to-follow web
interface to generate RSS and an HTML page to view the RSS. This looks
like a great application for folks who just want to post a change long
on their home page or web project site. So far, I’ve installed it
locally and ran it through its paces. Next comes a web install, when
free time next pops up.

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