Software As She’s Developed

I’ve been wondering why I haven’t received blog comments for a while now. Assumed there must be some spam issue, but only today did I investigate it – triggered by a Dugg article on Akizmet’s false positives. (Akizmet is the WordPress web-service-based spam filter.) Akizmet has done a great job at separating definites from possibles, [...]

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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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Seen on Tech Memeorandum … Say it with me now … “Woo”. Of course, the only thing sadder than blogging the outage would be …

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One of several reasons why podcasting won’t be as big as blogging, according to Paul Scrivens : Blogging requires a browser (if you are using a webmin interface) and an Internet connection. That’s it. Podcasting takes it a step further by requiring a microphone. I know many of you have mics on your computers, [...]

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