Sunday 5/30/2004 – 5:36 pm
A usage error borne of misunderstanding has nearly replaced correctness with a caricature. I am not referring to rending/rendering, made popular by fresh-faced local news reporters standing before “heart-rendering” scenes of depravity and destruction (rendering a heart, of course, would involve sketching it on paper or cooking it to release any fats contained within); rather […]
Sunday 5/30/2004 – 5:24 pm
I am not a cantankerous person. While I strive to be precise, I am generally tolerant of common levels of error and imprecision. But when a mistake seems to be entering the vernacular, when it might have once been a spelling error and is fast becoming an error of thought, I must speak.
discreet
1. Marked […]
Monday 5/24/2004 – 8:44 am
While poking around this weekend I stubled across an interesting concept in the work of
Alphachimp Studio
. Among their many offerings (including fiber art!?) they list ”
Graphic Facilitation
,” in which an illustrator(s) takes visually rich notes during a meeting that they are also involved in facilitating, in an effort to capture the salient points of […]
Friday 5/21/2004 – 7:26 am
Boxes and Arrows
continues to publish insightful and relevant articles. And the fact that two of my recent favorites just happen to include the words “Design Success” in their titles isn’t a factor, no siree.
Most recently,
Understanding Organizational Stakeholders for Design Success
details a method for performing
stakeholder analysis
, an exceedingly useful technique that […]
Thursday 5/20/2004 – 10:56 pm
Apple has done a reasonably good job of making
ZCN
(Zero Configuration Networking) a reality; now what we need is “ZCE,” Zero Configuration Email. Or at least Minimal Configuration Email.
Isn’t email easy enough? Well, no. My wife has been pretty troubled by ever-increasing rates of spam on her trusty Yahoo webmail account, so it is […]
Sunday 5/9/2004 – 9:50 pm
Recently,
Dave Shea
lamented that ”
there are no automated tools to validate Javascript.
” This is true, but such a tool is well within reach. And with a little bit of work, you can have your own.
Every person poking around with JavaScript
needs
to be aware of the fine work of
Douglass Crockford
, JavaScript guru of […]
Saturday 5/1/2004 – 9:45 pm
I’ve talked a good game about wanting to transform this nascent weblog into an all-singing, all-dancing, object-oriented online application(tm), but have gained little traction in building what will eventually become punyMVc, a minimal Model-View-controller (little “c” on purpose) not-so-much-a-framework-as-a-technique. Why is that?
Yes, lack of time, and perhaps lack of prioritization. But more than that, I […]