Finger-Friendly Interfaces
All the iPhone hype makes me wonder why so many smartphone/PDA apps still assume you’re using a stylus, when you probably lost it last month, left it at home, don’t have a hand free, or can’t be bothered pulling it...
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Ruby/Rails: Overriding NilClass
Rails uses “whiny nil”, which means if you call a method on an object that happens to be nil (null), you get an exception. This is good. But with strings in a web app (in any language), you often don’t...
If HTML Used Convention Over Configuration …
Browsers would automatically pull in CSS and JS according to the filename and I would no longer have to look for an example every time I need a link or script tag.
Ruby is Rails is … REST
Will the peripheral IT community come to view REST and Rails as equivalent? It might sound ridiculous, but consider: Unix==Linux, Wiki==Wikipedia, Ajax=Web 2.0, blogging==RSS, podcast==spoken MP3. Last but not least, every knows that