software development concepts
I believe very strongly that a blog without comments is not a blog. For me, the whole point of this blogging exercise is the many-way communication of the comments – between me and the commenters, and among the commenters themselves. As I said in How To Advertise on Your Blog Without
security
A number of people whose opinions I greatly respect have turned me on to Yelp over the last six months or so. Yelp is a community review site, and a great way to discover cool new places in whatever neighborhood you happen to be in. I’ve enjoyed using Yelp,
ui design
Although I rather like Windows Vista – I think the amount of Vista nerd rage out there is completely unwarranted – there are areas of Vista I find hugely disappointing. And for my money, nothing is more disappointing than the overall fit and finish of Vista, which is truly abysmal. It’s
authentication
As we continue to work on the code that will eventually become stackoverflow, we belatedly realized that we’d be contributing to the glut of username and passwords on the web. I have fifty online logins, and I can’t remember any of them! Adding that fifty-first set of stackoverflow.
software development
In yesterday’s post on Crashing Responsibly, I outlined a few ways to improve your application’s crash behavior. In the event that your application crashes – and oh, it will – why not turn that crash into something that: * Records lots of diagnostic information developers can use to improve the application
html
One of the things we’re thinking about while building stackoverflow.com is how to let users style the questions and answers they’re entering on the site. Nothing’s decided at this point, but we definitely won’t be giving users one of those friendly-but-irritating HTML GUI browser layout
software development
Let’s say, just as a hypothetical, you’re sitting at your computer, casually chatting with a fellow programmer. You begin to describe some bit of code, then bring it up on your display to illustrate. You want to highlight some particular part of the code. Perhaps you move the
technology trends
You’ve probably read this classic boner of an iPod quote at some point: No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. It’s from the Slashdot article on the introduction of the original Apple iPod back in 2001. I had always assumed this particular quote was written by a
programming languages
Edsger Dijkstra had this to say about Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code: It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. I’m sure he was exaggerating here
security
How many times have you returned to your web browser to be greeted by this unpleasant little notification: Your session has timed out. Please sign in again. If you’re anything like me, the answer is lots. What’s worse is that you’re usually kicked out of whatever page
web development
As I work on UI prototypes for the new web venture, I’ve been brainstorming names for the web site we’re building. I’ve surveyed some of the finest minds in the software developer community (for very small values of “fine”), and we’ve come to a collective realization:
user experience
We’re currently in the midst of building the new web property I alluded to in a previous post. Before I write a single line of code, I want to have a pretty clear idea of what the user interface will look like first. I’m in complete agreement with