Poking fun at hollywood depictions of computing is an old favourite on the net - compilations of dumb computing scenes outshadow even mentions of anomalies in the star trek universe. Meet The Hollywood Operating System, you know it well: The Hollywood operating system, or Hollywood OS, refers to any fictional computer operating system clichéd in movies […]
Entries from April 2007
Rethinking Hollywood OS (Lame Depictions of Computers in Movies may not be so Lame)
April 28th, 2007 · No Comments
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Documentation As Conversation
April 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I’m busy preparing a list of desirables for Web 2.0 APIs. One of them is good documentation, and I came up with this term - “Documentation As Conversation” - to articulate much of what is needed in modern software docs - documentation which belongs to the community of users/end-developers as it does to the people […]
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Weborandom Has a Practical Use!!!
April 5th, 2007 · No Comments
Paint me Melbourne Blue and call me a serial straw clutcher, but I just discovered a practical use for Weborandom, the Web Bling-Point-Oh app that shows random websites in an Ajax carousel and has accrued no less than eight, yes that’s a superb EIGHT-point-oh Diggs :/. Have you ever found your net connection a little slow? […]
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The New Timers: The Power of Blink Tags and HTML Whitespace
April 1st, 2007 · No Comments
It seems that Ajax people have been profoundly touched by my April 1 Ajaxian post on the new Ajax timing mechanisms. Hopefully it will lead to a new age of enlightenment for humanity and finally a cool acceptance of the fearsome blink tag. On blink: …And so it was that <blink>’s true purpose became known. Reborn as […]
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