Firefox 3 Skinning Progress
So I mentioned the other day that some theme related checkins took place. Here’s some screenshots for Mac/Windows for those interested. You can find some Linux screenshots on Michael Ventnor’s blog...
View ArticleW3C On DTD Perversions
According to the W3C Systeam’s blog, there’s a lot of poorly designed software out there. It’s pretty rare that something has a legitimate need to pull down a DTD in order to work. They should never be...
View ArticleThe Winner For Most Embedded Is: SQLite
So the format war of Blue-ray vs. HD-DVD is over. There are still several other rather significant battles going on in the tech world right now that aren’t Microsoft vs. Apple or Yahoo vs. Google. For...
View ArticleApple’s API Advantage
Vlad wrote about his work on improving Mac OS X performance (which is awesome by the way), and his findings from looking at WebKit code. To summarize WebKit utilizes some undocumented API’s (ironically...
View ArticleSelf Serving Sausage Fest?
Does that title accurately describe open source? Via Valleywag I found this blog post from Psychology Today which I’d recommend reading. This is really the most interesting part: First, there’s street...
View ArticleFirefox 3.0 Skinning Update
Back in January I posted some pics of the new skin in Firefox for those who haven’t tried it themselves. Figured I’d update with the latest. For the navigation toolbar the most obvious change is the...
View ArticleFirefox 3.0 Is Out
So the servers had a giant melt down. That’s hopefully history now. It’s out! Go download it. While your at it, spread the word and help break a world record. After all, how many world records have...
View ArticleCapturing User Innovation
Building a new product is always fun. You draft ideas, generate wireframes, mockups, prototypes, you build your app, you tweak it, you release it. In the case of software and web applications you also...
View ArticleOn Firefox Versioning
Writing software is actually quite easy. Writing good software is relatively harder, but still easy. Writing software to a programmer is like painting to a painter. Shipping software is an incredibly...
View ArticleQuality Trumps Speed
Interesting perspective from Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick reported by Ars: During a conference call accompanying today’s earnings report, Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick attributed the company’s inability...
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