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A summary of what influential economists are saying to support the Geithner plan.
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I've seen some evidence of this as well.
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"The software proved to be more sophisticated than the people who used it, and that has caused the whole world a lot of problems." Feels vaguely like there's a user interface argument to be made there.
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Easier than trying to extract them out of a Google Maps share URL.
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I've been a pleased TiVo user for something like 6 years... so I was shocked when visiting my folks house earlier this year that cable television menus haven't improved at all. Most of these screens are worse than filling out tax forms with crayons.
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I have a story about this I'll need to tell on the blog sometime. I like the succinct message here, though.
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I haven't used Litmus for browser testing yet, but this application certainly makes it more appealing. The killer feature for me would be some kind of interactivity testing (i.e... something to catch pesky Javascript errors in IE6).
Links: March 2009 Archives
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I've tried a number of tools lately to do simple file and directory transfers to and from S3. s3cmd is the most usable and powerful I've tried yet.
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An old article describing the architecture of Slashdot.
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Interesting bi-directional sync tool.
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Top-notch writeup on implementing YSlow's recommendations on a multi-server Drupal site.
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This article describes a relatively clever method to automatically upload Drupal's files/ directory up to S3 and smartly re-route requests there automatically. There are some flaws with this approach, but on the whole it looks pretty smart.
Who's this guy?
Aaron Longwell is Chief Web Craftsman at New Media Logic Corporation in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. As a professional software developer for 12 years and a student of public policy, he occasionally has interesting things to say about software, technology, culture and politics.
