Have a look at CodeKata, coding practice sessions. Doing one of these occasionally (start of each week?) may help you get into the right frame of mind/attitude.
Just look at how many people only download mozilla in the.zip/.gz formats, so they don't have to mess with the installers? Lots.
What about the people who download it in.exe format, so they don't need to mess with extracting it and setting up shortcuts in the Start menu? (Or because they don't know how to?) I'm sure there are lots of them too.
And to top it off, no installer means no extra work get the program out the door. And makes a certain level of support, if they cant unzip the file, they need to pay for your premium support package.
Or they simply don't pay you for support and they find some other program that does have an installer.
Right, when you are installing a complex server side piece of software, using an installer is a no brainer. But for simple apps, installers (on Windows at least) let users ignore where it gets installed to, and create shortcuts for launching it from the Start menu/Desktop/Quicklaunch bar. Next --> Next --> Next --> Finish. Simple. If you weren't using an installer, the process would be extract app to some directory, go to directory, and create shortcuts for the app. Now, you may not have troubles doing this, but there are plenty of non-technical users out there that will.
isbn.nu appears to be targeted at comparing pricing and shipping times for purchasing books from online retailers. On the other hand the Internet Book List is more geared towards discovering new and interesting books.
Joe Clark's book, Building Accessible Websites has an very good chapter on colorblindness. It has an excellent explanation of colorblindness based on two full weeks of scientific research and interviews with researchers in colour vision, which will prove useful even for non-web development.
You can also use this greyscale bookmarklet (IE only) to get a rough idea of how a web page may look to some colorblind users.
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Whatever happened to Ximian, or Evolution, or whatever it was called? I thought *it* was going to be the Outlook killer. How many Limux apps does it take to kill MS Outlook?
Evolution is practically a clone of the Outlook client. It is not an Outlook killer - it does nothing particulary new or revolutionary.
On the other hand, Chandler is a total rethink of how we will interact with our email/calendars/contacts.
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The one single Linux app that would kill outhouse would be a proxy or a plugin that would allow other email readers such as mozilla or evolution to access an exchange server running in MAPI only mode.
How would something like this be an Outlook killer? As long as the Exchange server is required, you're not exactly you're not exactly 'killing' anything.
To this day I have yet to find a person saying "Linux isn't ready for desktop use" that has tried the latest release from Redhat or Mandrake or SuSE.
Well, now you've found one. I installed Redhat 9.0 a month ago, and it's not ready for desktop use for me. I had previously tried Redhat 6 and 7, and I definitely agree that there have been significant advancements over the years. Software installation hassles and lack of keyboard shortcuts is what turned me away.
Personally I believe Linux is not ready for the desktop until software installation is as easy and straight forward as it is currently on Windows.
It wasn't Mark Pilgrim that described a simple way to identify email-harvesters. The link shows it was George A. Theall in a comment on Mark Pilgrim's weblog.
How Cheese Man got mixed up is beyond me, as comment by George A. Theall is clearly displayed at the bottom of the comment.
We give out this awards, and explain nothing, nothing at all. Geez, that's useful.
The Judging page explains that the votes of around 480 members are used to decide the Webbys. You couldn't possibly give an explanation for the winning site that was representative of each member who voted for it. You'll note that explanations for the winners don't get given at the Academy Awards for much the same reason.
A small judging panel would be more suited to giving some sort of explanation as to why the winners won.
Everyone who plays these games is well aware of which season's rosters are included
Sure. But the people who play the games don't always buy the games. Some kid's Mom who has absolutely no interest in the sport and no knowledge of the game could be the one doing the purchasing.
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The Google API is not going to be of any use here. It cannot be used to access Google Groups.
Have a look at CodeKata, coding practice sessions. Doing one of these occasionally (start of each week?) may help you get into the right frame of mind/attitude.
What about the people who download it in .exe format, so they don't need to mess with extracting it and setting up shortcuts in the Start menu? (Or because they don't know how to?) I'm sure there are lots of them too.
Or they simply don't pay you for support and they find some other program that does have an installer.
Installing Everywhere? Use InstallAnywhere, a cross platform Java installer. Nasty licensing and pricey though.
Right, when you are installing a complex server side piece of software, using an installer is a no brainer. But for simple apps, installers (on Windows at least) let users ignore where it gets installed to, and create shortcuts for launching it from the Start menu/Desktop/Quicklaunch bar. Next --> Next --> Next --> Finish. Simple. If you weren't using an installer, the process would be extract app to some directory, go to directory, and create shortcuts for the app. Now, you may not have troubles doing this, but there are plenty of non-technical users out there that will.
isbn.nu appears to be targeted at comparing pricing and shipping times for purchasing books from online retailers. On the other hand the Internet Book List is more geared towards discovering new and interesting books.
You can also use this greyscale bookmarklet (IE only) to get a rough idea of how a web page may look to some colorblind users.
Evolution is practically a clone of the Outlook client. It is not an Outlook killer - it does nothing particulary new or revolutionary.
On the other hand, Chandler is a total rethink of how we will interact with our email/calendars/contacts.
How would something like this be an Outlook killer? As long as the Exchange server is required, you're not exactly you're not exactly 'killing' anything.
About.com is an example large scale site using Moveable Type.
I managed to contain SARS a few months ago.
If you are using Firebird, you can do this with the Plain Text Links extension
Well, now you've found one. I installed Redhat 9.0 a month ago, and it's not ready for desktop use for me. I had previously tried Redhat 6 and 7, and I definitely agree that there have been significant advancements over the years. Software installation hassles and lack of keyboard shortcuts is what turned me away.
Personally I believe Linux is not ready for the desktop until software installation is as easy and straight forward as it is currently on Windows.
A sample chapters from the book, Java and .NET are available in PDF format from the book page on O'Reilly's site.
How Cheese Man got mixed up is beyond me, as comment by George A. Theall is clearly displayed at the bottom of the comment.
A small judging panel would be more suited to giving some sort of explanation as to why the winners won.
Heh, didn't read the about page. It pre-empted my next point (to run text ads ala Google).
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Fair enough if you don't want to advertise on your site. Cool idea, and I'm looking forward to purchasing in the future
What's stopping them from doing what many other websites do? They could just place advertising on their site.
Well, if people want to waste their time getting it via BitTorrent when they could have just as fast from AOL's servers, then let them.
And if everyone is as anti-AOL as they claim to be around here, the least they could do is use some of AOL's bandwidth for free!
...to know everything you want to know about the Turing test.
Two sample chapters from the book are available in PDF format from the publisher's website, here.
A sample chapter, Programming Soap, is available in PDF format here.