that's ALWAYS good
russell beattie just wrote a long treatise on doing web development in Java. It is the result of many months of meditation and experimentation with different technologies. it's interesting even if you have not used the technologies or java in general.#
boing boing links a review of The Best American Scient Writing 2003 - i read part of one these ones, but hadn't yet committed to getting another, but now i will.#
read ryan mcgee's pre-review of the J. Lo and Ben Affleck movie. i'll probably see it, and then kill myself.#
morendil writes about the "genius of programming languages" and the idea that software development (and languages) are not governed primarily by metaphors, but by idioms. ''An idiom, in natural language, is a ready-made expression with a specific meaning that must be learned, and can't necessarily be deduced from the terms of the expression. This meaning transposes easily to programming languages and to software in general.'' - that's an interesting way to think about it, and he links an Alan Cooper article with a similar statement. this is essentially what people are saying when they say user interfaces should be consistent (have coherent expressions and stick to them so they become idioms of the interface in the user's mind) and warning about searching too hard for the wrong metaphor.#
matthew's goodbye leaves a pearl of wisdom: ''he Web revolution has been over for a while, and after a couple of years of stagnation, the Web evolution is kicking in. It will be important to continuously question standards and research, update skills (both methodological and UI development), and never give up hope that user-centered design will someday become the process and not just a tool.''#
i would want tony to be my boss - he talks to you and lets you know it's good you're there. i imagine that he'd also make sure you knew if you were doing well or not. i have a boss who i've talked to maybe, 4 times in 3 months. all but one of them in the hallway, so i don't really think i should refer to it as "talking", it's very strange. i think i'm fine.. i mean, i get my paycheck. but you know... you never know?#