Interesting Links for Web Spinners
The terms “Web architect” or “Web designer” may turn off too many readers so lets go with ‘spinning’ for a few tendrils (like this will actually turn readers ‘on’):
This may sound “too technical” but the Argotic Syndication Framework may replace my use of RSS.NET. I’m already using RSS.NET in a W2-related Windows Presentation Foundation skunk works project here in the trenches. This Argotic thing even supports OPML!- Tubes, VoiceThread and a few other Scoble subjects are actually worth mentioning to me. Since my Web building career was not based on keeping “my customers” ignorant and dependant on me, these “user enabling” tools are actually interesting to me. Often to the annoyance of my lazy (but cash poor) Web design customers (from the ’hood), I’m a supporter of customer education. My customers should choose me because they are informed and they tried the rest—now they want the best we can do as team. You have to pay for the privilege to be ignorant when you work with me. Sorry, dude.
- Jeff Atwood on “Revisiting Programming Fonts” is exactly the kind of minutiae that should be of absolutely no interest to ‘my customers.’ However, this little ditty is of interest to me…
- Speaking of Jeff Atwood, his article, “The Two Types of Programmers” is to me, here in the rasx() context, another approach to the same “tech bigot” warnings that Ed Dunn is frequently dishing out in his Blog. Jeff writes, “If you really want to change the software development status quo, if you want to make a difference this year, you have to help us reach outside our insular little group of alpha programmers and effect change in the other 80% of the world.” What Jeff may not mean is that “status quo” also refers to a certain ‘racialized tradition’ of who can actually be an elite “alpha” programmer—even the term “alpha” implies a Greek heritage of intellectual supremacy that is an silly as me as bald-head Moby.
Speaking of “status quo,” it is my misfortune to remind me that there are free UML tools for Visual Studio. This may get to be a real issue when this Java-IBM culture demands this from me. This is not really Web spinning issue…- So, getting back to more Web-related issues, Chris Ilias in “Customize the Firefox Bookmarks location” suggests that you can weave your own little version of http://del.icio.us/ in an Intranet scenario.
- In “Bridging XML, E4X and JSON” Kurt Cagle has a major editorial issue (with repeating paragraphs as of this writing) among other struggles with JSON interoperating with anything other than JSON. This immediately leads me to a heartbreaking talk by my hero, Doug Crockford, “The State of AJAX” in which he insults XML and exalts JSON. Ouch!