Software As She’s Developed

<gush> Firebug is awesome. Joe Hewitt is a legend. As I’ve said before, Firebug is among the most usable software tools ever developed. I don’t just mean compared to other software development tools. I mean against all user-facing software. It’s single-handedly improved my Ajax productivity by at least 100% (that’s my estimate when making changes to larger […]

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Just mailed Joe Hewitt a couple of suggestions for the bug. Hi Joe, A couple of firebug suggestions. (1) Search On the Ajaxian interview, you mentioned people have trouble locating and knowing about the existence of Search. (Me too.) Redesigning the layout will help, but I’d also suggest retaining the standard alt/control-F shortcut somehow, as I’m sure a lot […]

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Welcome to Ye Olde Ajax Patterns Podcaste, the final in this series that began twelve months ago. 3+4+4+1 = 12 podcasts in all, covering 71 patterns (the 70 patterns in the the book as well as Dyanmic Favicons). Find them all on the podcast category - http://www.softwareas.com/category/podcast/ or subscribe to the podcast feed at http://www.softwareas.com/podcast/rss2. Thanks […]

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Jeff Attwood points out that on w3schools, a huge majority of developers are still using IE. About 60% IE and 25% Firefox. Amazingly 2.3% are still using Mozilla (why?). Unfortunate that 60% of developers aren’t using IE … but the reality is many don’t have much choice…they’ll be working in corporate-standard windows environments, where IE already […]

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