A very thoughtful and philosophical post by Mark Pilgrim on the case of his Dive Into Python being published by someone other than Apress, and listed on Amazon.
This is a great post, because it really shows that Pilgrim isn’t afraid to take the consequence of his choices, and he demonstrates how this can be a superior way to publish books.
I don’t know when they changed this, or if it was in fact part of iTunes DJ from the start, but I love this:
Then choosing the ‘Play in iTunes DJ’ option from the right-click menu will start the number in iTunes DJ, at the same time in the track:
That is very clever.
Comparing the most famous font rivals ever.
I’m late to the game, but please do support what I think will be an interesting case study, if nothing else. (I say please support it, because if people don’t, I won’t get one either.)
I had this idea all set up, including code and domain, and then I discover this. Oh, well, then I won’t have to maintain it, and focus on watching all those films. (My list is also publicly available.)
(Via barklund.)
That sounds awful. I can only echo what Simon said:
Don’t speak at or attend Sys-Con conferences (which include AJAXWorld, the Cloud Computing Expo and Ajax in the Cloud), don’t write for or buy their journals (including AJAXWorld Magazine, JDJ and .NET Developer’s Journal), and don’t visit or advertise on any of their sites.
Aaron Swartz might not be the best writer in the world, but he’s very passionate about his writings, and I find that his views on life are often interesting and thought-provoking.
I must certainly attempt to get more offline; it sure would be good for me.
HTML5 is backwards-compatible with what’s already on the Web, but – despite their best efforts – there’s a lot of new stuff in it, and the WHATWG blog tries lists some helpful tools to make sure you produce good mark-up.
I don’t do much that could be labelled ‘design’, but there’s some general advice that makes sense in most industries.
Choosy labels itself ‘a smarter default browser’, and is a neat little tool if you sometimes need to launch links in other browsers than what you’d normally use.
Because I was a beta tester, I also got a discount code to give away: EPXCA (15% off $[[12 USD]]). It’s not clear from the email, but I think it’s only valid for one person, so the first person to use it will be in luck.
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Jonathan Holst is a programmer, language enthusiast, sports fan, and appreciator of good design, living in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. He is also someone pretentious enough to call himself the 'author' of a blog. And talk about himself in the third person.