A reporter should not be assigned to cover subject X unless he has as good an understanding of X as a baseball writer is expected to have of baseball.
It’s like a Zen koan — if you say something stupid, and no one is there to hear it, are you still an idiot?
The new version of iPhoto, announced not too long ago, features Web Gallery, a way to export your photo library to a .Mac web share. The sample gallery confirms that these Ajax‐heavy galleries use Prototype and Scriptaculous under the hood. It could not make me happier that Apple seem to have adopted the two libraries company‐wide.
Now, I worked on [NFL] Head Coach. There’s no excuse at all for that game and I’m really, truly, sorry. We all tried submitting “Game is awful” as a bug, but nobody listened.
DrBagpipes (Something Awful forums)
Ethan and Mark, we’re very happy with Prototype and script.aculo.us at 37signals, but thanks for your concern. Prototype has served me quite well since I created it in early 2005.
Anyone who has watched — from afar or close‐up — the agglomeration of media control over the past four decades can only sigh. If you’ve been one of those many American journalists — young or old — who actually tries to get some good reporting published between assignments on ridiculous stories, you know full well how much consolidation of the media has contributed to throwing up barricades against your best efforts.
Do not drop, disassemble, open, crush, bend, deform, puncture, shred, microwave, incinerate, paint, or insert foreign objects into iPhone.
iPhone Product Info. Guide
In case you’re not tired of iPhone musings: as I was playing with the two‐finger zooming in Safari, I remembered Dave Hyatt’s April 2006 blog post on high‐DPI web sites. Eerily prescient in hindsight, he argues that web developers should make sure their images can scale — in anticipation of high‐res displays (like, say, 160 dpi) and browsers that let the user zoom in (like, say, Safari). The timing of the post makes me wonder just what Hyatt knew and when he knew it.
Joe Hewitt: Firebug for iPhone. Oh, hell yes. Joe: I owe you a keg of beer if we’re ever in the same place at the same time.
I’m going to have to compile a list of all the tiny UI touches Apple got right with the iPhone. I’ve been playing with this thing for a couple hours and I keep discovering new stuff.