Interesting persepective, is this another way of saying “Release early, release often”? This stands to reason: our nontechnical people are having discussions and debates while Zuckerberg is coding his next feature. This is why no one has been able to keep up with Facebook! LAUNCH002: What I Learned from Zuckerberg’s Mistakes – Blog – LAUNCH
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I posted a comment over at Five community challenges for design in Drupal 7 & beyond. It is awaiting moderation but here it is in case it doesn’t get approved. @Mathieu – saying that coding is fundamentally about rolling out features and bug fixes is like saying that design is rolling out sizing boxes and picking
So, it turns out that the study linking Vaccines to Autism was an outright fraud. This outcome has been a long-time coming, as the original study was retracted almost a year ago and in May the researcher behind the study was stripped of his medical license. I’m troubled that it took so long to discover,
You think you’d have a better plan than to completely end subsidies cold-turkey like this. Maybe a plan to gradually remove them over a year or two so that markets can adjust and that the new revenues can be put to work visibly. Instead, you get protests, rioting, and people stockpiling basic necessities. Protests surged
Lessons: Use Cases matter, and programmers (the users in this case) will choose tools that are both simple, in that they are not complicated/over-engineered, and easy to use, requiring little setup and code to accomplish a task. For parsing data with PHP, constrast using something like SimpleXML or DOMDocument (which is light-years better than where
Don’t follow the advice posted below to “optimize” your site based on the user agent string. The author suggests doing so in the page.tpl.php for your theme. However, this means you can NEVER turn caching on for your site. Also, the uses ereg functions to “detect” the device. These functions are now deprecated by PHP,
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While its hard to read the press release from the World Health organization below and make any sense of the tortured language, it basically says that while food is the main source of BPA exposure, the science as to its effects is inconclusive. Also, BPA is eliminated from the body rather quickly. Was it a
I’m working on a mobile web site and one of the things that can be done to make it more usable is to make targets larger, so that user’s don’t have to be as accurate to trigger an event. It is an application of Fitt’s Law. In this case, I was trying to make the
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I’ve long been a fan of Bobby Convey, and was glad he was included on the 2006 World Cup squad, along with another favorite of mine, Ben Olsen. He did it again, last week, making D.C. United fans everywhere happy by knocking New York out of the MLS Playoffs. Given the lack of options on the
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Hoping to test out the latest beta of Mozilla’s Mobile Firefox but have a myTouch 3G? You may be out of luck, while the official builds don’t support the chip in the device, there is an Arm 6 build which is listed as compatible. I downloaded it and tried to install it, but it wouldn’t install either,