Hans is riffing on Apple. Deservedly, most likely.
August 2001 Archives
Looking for work after your rocketing dot-com turned out to be a pershing missile? NetSlaves has a good article on how tech interviewing works.
Hmm. Robert Scoble is touting HTTP Business Services. “His company is being kept afloat by building HTTP Business Services inside corporate firewalls. Makes sense, actually. Businesses have the money to spend on improving their processes and information systems.”
Um, Scoble? As Dave would say, we have a word for HTTP Business Services already - “intranet”. It works very well. (The word that is - YMMV on your intranet itself.)
Hans has added perma-links to his weblog. Go Hans!
Dave Winer on Microsft’s Scripting Strategy, otherwise known as “All Your Syntax Are Belong To Us”. The way M$ chews through this industry astounds me.
According to Omni guru Ken Case and Omni’s road map, Mac OS X browser Omniweb 4.1 will use the SpiderMonkey C-based JavaScript engine - the same one used in the Mozilla browser. Cooool!
Listen to Nickelback covering Soul Coughing’s Super Bon Bon while reading RageBoy.
I looked at my membership roll today… wow. There’s some people joining this site. Cooooool. Hmmm - all I have is your email addresses. I am steve@redmonk.net. Who are you? Here’s a random sampling of email addresses that have joined my site (if this bothers you please let me know). I love seeing new members - email addresses are intriguing, seeing how people identify themselves in a form of limited communication…
bert at minke.nu
danewbie at yahoo.com
dj_corky at hotmail.com
fubardk at yahoo.com
(a fav) sharkielaw at hotmail.com
xi0n at freeze.com
So - is your name here? Would you like to introduce yourself? You can do it here or here. I’d like to start a little series of intros, so let me know if I can post your intro (if you email it). Thanks!!
I’m in the middle of the first largish-scale OOD project I’ve done. I’m a newbie to formalized design (UML et al) so I’m fascinated (and sometimes frustrated!) at the process.
I have a definite feeling that the process is more important to UML’s inventors than the end result, but that impression may change as we get into implementation. Hard to predict the benefit this process will bring to the end product - but I mark that up to inexperience.
Though a programmer/architect by day, I actually have a degree in Graphic Design, and had the pleasure of working with some extremely good designers in my early career. So I’m adding The Visual Language of Experts in Graphic Design to my reading list. Fascinating so far.
Not sure if this can really be considered “Life Outside the Web”, but I’m forming a reading list. Current titles:
The Cluetrain Manifesto
Edwin Abbott’s Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.
Hans has been busy lately, especially after updating his PHP-based weblog software. In his words: “you sure do post a lot to your weblog when it’s easy…” You bet, mano. ;-)
Nickelback - This Is How You Remind Me, and Ben Folds Five - Rockin’ The Suburbs. Favorite line from Rockin’ The Suburbs: “some producer with computers fixes all my s**tty tracks”. Geeks shall rule the earth…
Read about it here. But just try and buy one.
Great post on some mailing list: In Defense Of Flame Wars. The author makes some really good points about the nature of public debate and communication in a textual, non-real-time medium. There are some web boards I’ve frequented that could benefit from some of this.
Excite@Home is facing a serious crisis, and may be @History. Watch those broadband use numbers tumble…
Ugh. Last night I was eating an Oreo and lost a crown. So I sit her gap-toothed this morning waiting to go to the dentist. This is a really good way to ruin a perfectly good Friday. Ugh.
Excite: “Helios’ ‘brain’ is an Apple Computer Macintosh computer that would guide it back to Earth when necessary.”
Aaron Hillegass, Cocoa Deity and WOGod, via the Mac OS X Dev list, on why OS X/WebObjects classes are expensive:
Here is the math: An experienced Cocoa/WebObjects engineer bills around $150/hr, so 60 hours of instruction is $9000. Half the price of the class typically goes to the room, equipment, and marketing people. So figure the class costs $18,000. Thus, you can never charge $200 for the class.
I guess not! $3500 for the class doesn’t look so bad anymore.
In the spirit of Douglas Coupland’s classic Microserfs, I now offer my 7 Dream Jeopardy Categories:
Steve’s 7 Dream Jeopardy Categories
* The Writable Web
* R.E.M.
* Scripting Languages
* The History of XML
* National Geographic
* All things Macintosh
* Cheeses Of Europe
I’ve bookmarked stating the obvious. I like it. It’s simple, it’s clever, it has really good linkage.
Our local stations carry MTV2 on a high UHF channel. So I was, luckily enough, able to catch a re-broadcast of MTV’s recent Unplugged with R.E.M. It was, as usual, a treat - although Michael Stipe seemed bored for the first few songs. Highlights:
Cuyahoga: Awesome, beutiful song from Life’s Rich Pageant, 1986. It’s haunting live, and Michael finally began spending emotional energy while singing it.
Country Feedback: Slow, powerful. From Out Of Time, (1990 I think). Michael has thrown himself into this song everytime I’ve heard him perform it - “I… need this…”
When MTV put up the Losing My Religion video on the screen behind the band, and Michael saw himself: “Who is this guy? Get him off there…. God, he’s so sincere!”
All in all a good time. These guys rock.
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Jim and I and another guy started Tales Of Wo a while back, but I’ve let it languish. Well, I’ve begun working my way back into WebObjects, and with this new found energy comes new desire to share it with whomever may care to read it. So, if you’re learning WebObjects, want to, or just want to witness me floundering from time to time, hop on over to Tales Of WO.
Not like there’s that many of you out there hanging on every word, but the lack of posts here lately is due largely to lack of time and interest. Personal stuff is taking up my emotional energy - so I’ve got less to invest here. This should change sooner or later. See you then!
