Good example-- QX was the only game in town for a while, and refused to change with the times, implement new features, or fix crappy implementations of old features (anyone here remember having to deal with "pasteboard" workarounds? Or the text box bugs that would appear when saving as an.eps or PDF?) I certainly don't dig InDesign, but QX screwed the pooch, and deserved to lose their market share.
Oooh, yeah-- editing documents on a platform where actually moving files on/off the platform is a massive pain in the ass.... that would sure sell like hotcakes. I'm sure the first time some exec tries to copy a file to/from his/her thumbdrive the pad will go out the freakin window.
Nevermind, iTunes loves handling.doc files. Or, just use Google docs on the iPad to edit your word files... MS can make a bunch of money off that.... wait, what was I saying?
I can't tell you how many shops I've worked at where it was obvious that all the software was cracked. My favorite was a print vendor who would encourage his staff (college interns) to "bring in" some of their school software/plugins to "test in a real-world environment". Anytime someone had to send a job to print, all the workstations would have to be disconnected from the network or else there would be licensing conflicts with all the cracked warez. This was more than a decade ago, and the vendor in question has been out of business for a long time. Scumbag-- everything he did somehow reeked of illegality.
I remember I came in once (this was right after I started) only to find the entire staff (except the interns) had quit without warning. Everyone from the production managers to the secretaries-- gone. I soon followed, natch!
At the risk of sounding sentimental, I think lowering the barrier for entry for app building is a step toward my personal vision of utopia. "solve[ing] the weird little application-specific problems that are important to them or their business, and which are too small to pay for a real developer" is exactly how you end up with the most diverse software environment possible, and get the really inventive, out-of-left-field creatives to participate.
A higher barrier for entry certainly has not prevented the deluge of "iFart" apps.
Good for you-- are you hiring? Because where I'm sitting, most firms want staff that's cheap, easy to fire, no spouses/children/mortgages to support, won't demand health insurance... you get the picture. HR calls it "young and hip", the bean counters call it "minimizing long term expenses".
Experience and professionalism are a long term expense.
Suprised no one's modded you flamebait for mentioning the actual benefit of the iStuff line of products, but yeah-- that's exactly what the market for iStuff is. And it's a huge market-- most people want a computer that's as intuitive and easy to use as a toaster. Which is why the iPoo is more like a toaster (or a mall kiosk) than a robust, multifunctional, expandable computer.
It's not to my taste, of course, and I will never use one except for a dev platform.
I'm with Zerth here-- as a freelancer, I have to be constantly updating my skillset to stay competitive in the marketplace, which I do on my own time (because ALL my time is my own) at my own expense.
As an employee, however, I feel that it's my employer's job to keep the company competitive-- which means keeping all technology and assets (employees are an asset) current at the company's expense. That's one reason why my employer gets a bigger slice of the client's dollars than I do.
Really? You put client-facing work on YouTube?
Ouch.
If you don't want to spare the bandwidth on your own site (how much data are you pushing, anyway?) then try Vimeo. Cleaner, better optimization, has private (need a password) channels, offers a "pro" service where you get unlimited uploads, etc.
It's mainly used by video artists, tech demos, etc.
Mod parent up. I have a feeling that all this will do is drive prices down-- not for professional photographers that do model/product/event shoots, but for stock photo professionals..
"Why should I pay X dollars for your professional photography when I can get something that 'looks as good' for a dollar on FLICKR?"
Look at what the glut of cheap and easy WYSIWYG web design tools in the hands of amateurs has done to dev rates-- it's hard to explain to a client the benefit of having a professional build a web app/site when "my nephew can do that in a weekend". Smart clients know the difference-- but not all my clients are smart.
Sure... because CSS always formats uniformly across different browsers and platforms. And browser detection never fails or degrades over time.
These kinds of issues are what Flash excels at-- uniform output. Why dont'cha push your final, scrubbed and parsed user data to a Flash widget to print? I believe there are all kinds of native PDF and print controls in the Flash API anyway.
To alll you HTML5 kool-aid drinkers, flame away. Tell me how the canvas tag will fix all the OP's woes.
I prefer to rely on a book to provide information on structure/planning/best practices, and use the web to find some quick, commonly-used code snippets.
Books tend to be more carefully researched/vetted than "Joe-Bob's Code Blog".
Mod parent up. I find the whole "front door unlocked" aspect of the iPad to be a legit, hilarious target of asshole hacker spam and kind of a dealbreaker functionality wise (gee, I guess maybe now I won't buy one)... but you can't say you're one of the good guys if you pass data on to the internet equivalent of the Nat. Enquirer.
If I find a wallet on the floor, and I don't immediately look around and yell "whose wallet is this?" or give it to the nearest cop (however, the last time I did that, the cop told me to take the money out and drop the rest in a mailbox or else someone at the post office would "steal" it, ) it's reasonable to assume I have planned to keep it.
Welcome to the nightmare scenario that I see coming with HTML5-- build a million different exceptions to everything in order to have consistent user-facing functionality.
We have users AND clients trained to expect all the stuff that Flash video provides (good looking compression, easy on the bandwidth, custom skin/players, easy implemetation of user-tracking metrics and ads) and no one is going to want to hear "well, we can do some of these things in Safari, a few of them in Firefox/Chrome, two of them in IE version X and one of them in IE version Y".
Disclaimer: I'm no fan of all the odius sins Flash has committed (security, CPU abuse, etc) but let's get real-- HTML5 is not going to be the universal machine that everyone seems to think it will be. It's going to triple production time for something clients and users expect to be simple, cheap, and easy to implement.
Word of advice-- don't be running out of state plates in Ohio (they particularly have a hard-on for Illinois plates for some reason). One time I got three moving violation tickets within a half an hour while driving to Cedar Point.
Only state I've ever got a ticket for a "reckless lane change" when I was the only car on the road. It's also the only state I got a ticket for a "reckless right turn"-- you know, a right turn on a red light on a deserted street.
Ohio can suck it. The people are great, but small town cops have nothing to do but hassle the out of towners. I get the same vibe when driving thru small towns in south texas.
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How did you get modded funny? I found your statement to be quite insightful. I vote to replace the term "lefty" with "softhead"!
Good example-- QX was the only game in town for a while, and refused to change with the times, implement new features, or fix crappy implementations of old features (anyone here remember having to deal with "pasteboard" workarounds? Or the text box bugs that would appear when saving as an .eps or PDF?) I certainly don't dig InDesign, but QX screwed the pooch, and deserved to lose their market share.
Oooh, yeah-- editing documents on a platform where actually moving files on/off the platform is a massive pain in the ass.... that would sure sell like hotcakes. I'm sure the first time some exec tries to copy a file to/from his/her thumbdrive the pad will go out the freakin window.
.doc files. Or, just use Google docs on the iPad to edit your word files... MS can make a bunch of money off that.... wait, what was I saying?
Nevermind, iTunes loves handling
SQUIRREL!
I can't tell you how many shops I've worked at where it was obvious that all the software was cracked. My favorite was a print vendor who would encourage his staff (college interns) to "bring in" some of their school software/plugins to "test in a real-world environment". Anytime someone had to send a job to print, all the workstations would have to be disconnected from the network or else there would be licensing conflicts with all the cracked warez. This was more than a decade ago, and the vendor in question has been out of business for a long time. Scumbag-- everything he did somehow reeked of illegality.
I remember I came in once (this was right after I started) only to find the entire staff (except the interns) had quit without warning. Everyone from the production managers to the secretaries-- gone. I soon followed, natch!
At the risk of sounding sentimental, I think lowering the barrier for entry for app building is a step toward my personal vision of utopia. "solve[ing] the weird little application-specific problems that are important to them or their business, and which are too small to pay for a real developer" is exactly how you end up with the most diverse software environment possible, and get the really inventive, out-of-left-field creatives to participate.
A higher barrier for entry certainly has not prevented the deluge of "iFart" apps.
Good for you-- are you hiring? Because where I'm sitting, most firms want staff that's cheap, easy to fire, no spouses/children/mortgages to support, won't demand health insurance... you get the picture. HR calls it "young and hip", the bean counters call it "minimizing long term expenses".
Experience and professionalism are a long term expense.
I don't install any antivirus. Never have. I'm using XP service pack2 as well.
I just reformat every two months, practice safe clicking, and have a separate, isolated machine dedicated to porn and Adobe products.
Suprised no one's modded you flamebait for mentioning the actual benefit of the iStuff line of products, but yeah-- that's exactly what the market for iStuff is. And it's a huge market-- most people want a computer that's as intuitive and easy to use as a toaster. Which is why the iPoo is more like a toaster (or a mall kiosk) than a robust, multifunctional, expandable computer.
It's not to my taste, of course, and I will never use one except for a dev platform.
Roofs?
I'm with Zerth here-- as a freelancer, I have to be constantly updating my skillset to stay competitive in the marketplace, which I do on my own time (because ALL my time is my own) at my own expense.
As an employee, however, I feel that it's my employer's job to keep the company competitive-- which means keeping all technology and assets (employees are an asset) current at the company's expense. That's one reason why my employer gets a bigger slice of the client's dollars than I do.
Really? You put client-facing work on YouTube? Ouch.
If you don't want to spare the bandwidth on your own site (how much data are you pushing, anyway?) then try Vimeo. Cleaner, better optimization, has private (need a password) channels, offers a "pro" service where you get unlimited uploads, etc.
It's mainly used by video artists, tech demos, etc.
I'd like to mod you -1 Troll and +1 Insightful... Would that be +-1 Insight-roll?
Mod parent up! I do a lot of video installations all over the world, and no matter what, I can always use VGA.
Get rid of VGA? Screw that.
well, unscrew it, actually....
How is this possibly flamebait? Unless, if by "flamebait", you mean f**kin hilarious.
Mod parent up. I have a feeling that all this will do is drive prices down-- not for professional photographers that do model/product/event shoots, but for stock photo professionals..
"Why should I pay X dollars for your professional photography when I can get something that 'looks as good' for a dollar on FLICKR?"
Look at what the glut of cheap and easy WYSIWYG web design tools in the hands of amateurs has done to dev rates-- it's hard to explain to a client the benefit of having a professional build a web app/site when "my nephew can do that in a weekend".
Smart clients know the difference-- but not all my clients are smart.
Mod parent up: +1 DIVS suck! I'm not a fan of tables either, but everything gets shifty when you put it in a bunch of styled DIV tags.
Sure... because CSS always formats uniformly across different browsers and platforms. And browser detection never fails or degrades over time.
These kinds of issues are what Flash excels at-- uniform output. Why dont'cha push your final, scrubbed and parsed user data to a Flash widget to print? I believe there are all kinds of native PDF and print controls in the Flash API anyway.
To alll you HTML5 kool-aid drinkers, flame away. Tell me how the canvas tag will fix all the OP's woes.
I prefer to rely on a book to provide information on structure/planning/best practices, and use the web to find some quick, commonly-used code snippets.
Books tend to be more carefully researched/vetted than "Joe-Bob's Code Blog".
I guess correct punctuation falls into that 3%. Not sure how I feel about that.
Mod parent up: +1 crazytown
Mod parent up. I find the whole "front door unlocked" aspect of the iPad to be a legit, hilarious target of asshole hacker spam and kind of a dealbreaker functionality wise (gee, I guess maybe now I won't buy one)... but you can't say you're one of the good guys if you pass data on to the internet equivalent of the Nat. Enquirer.
If I find a wallet on the floor, and I don't immediately look around and yell "whose wallet is this?" or give it to the nearest cop (however, the last time I did that, the cop told me to take the money out and drop the rest in a mailbox or else someone at the post office would "steal" it, ) it's reasonable to assume I have planned to keep it.
Welcome to the nightmare scenario that I see coming with HTML5-- build a million different exceptions to everything in order to have consistent user-facing functionality.
We have users AND clients trained to expect all the stuff that Flash video provides (good looking compression, easy on the bandwidth, custom skin/players, easy implemetation of user-tracking metrics and ads) and no one is going to want to hear "well, we can do some of these things in Safari, a few of them in Firefox/Chrome, two of them in IE version X and one of them in IE version Y".
Disclaimer: I'm no fan of all the odius sins Flash has committed (security, CPU abuse, etc) but let's get real-- HTML5 is not going to be the universal machine that everyone seems to think it will be. It's going to triple production time for something clients and users expect to be simple, cheap, and easy to implement.
Word of advice-- don't be running out of state plates in Ohio (they particularly have a hard-on for Illinois plates for some reason). One time I got three moving violation tickets within a half an hour while driving to Cedar Point.
Only state I've ever got a ticket for a "reckless lane change" when I was the only car on the road. It's also the only state I got a ticket for a "reckless right turn"-- you know, a right turn on a red light on a deserted street.
Ohio can suck it. The people are great, but small town cops have nothing to do but hassle the out of towners. I get the same vibe when driving thru small towns in south texas.