- Kurt Cagle: Is Dreamweaver being beaten by Drupal? The real question being asked is whether the features associated with dynamic database-driven Web sites are more compelling than the pinpoint control and top notch user experience of Dreamweaver.
- Pathfinder Development: Keeping Up With The Joneses: Keeping Rails and its extensions up to date. Managing dependencies is generally one of the most unpleasant aspects of any software development project.
- Eric Burke: Ban Software Patents. Yet another example of ludicrous patents.
- Michael Ruhlman: Michael Symon’s Pickled Chillis. Really cool recipe.
- Serial Consign: Desktop Deja Vu. The history of the default desktop picture that shipped with Windows XP.
- useum: Measuring Social Participation in a Science Museum. Useful for more than just museums.
- Wired: The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist. Looks fascinating but I’m not reading it ’til my Wired comes in the mail.
- High Performance Web Sites: Performance Impact of CSS Selectors. Hard numbers on the varying performance of different CSS selectors. Also a reminder that there’s a lot more we could be measuring that we don’t.
- oobject: formula 1 user interfaces. Incredibly fascinating comparison of the current state of steering wheels in Formula 1 cars.
- PC Pro Blog: I’m sorry but Dreamweaver is dying. Another argument that high end page-based authoring tools are giving way to Drupal.
March 13, 2009 at 10:38 am
I really like these link round ups.
The wired story of the diamond heist was great. I didn’t want it to end. Lots of great details and unanswered questions. It would make a great book.