links for 2009-01-30
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I ran into this using the jQuery UI dialogs. We were checking a checkbox in a dialog.
Software development has failed
Face it, it’s failed.
We spend a lot of time and energy trying to understand the problem domain or at least have the client communicate it to us and the customer hardly ever gets what they want or are satisfied.
Need to put the ability to craft a solution in the hands of the client. Domain specific languages may help, but you still need to know how to program at this point. In the future, college majors may include programming courses. Only CS will use generic “foundation” languages like C/C++/Java/.NET. and will mostly focus on building platforms for the domain experts.
Episode 33: Intertube Inauguration and Questions From Listeners
This week Kevin leads a discussion about the inauguration on the web, then we field some questions from listeners. Topics Live inauguration video on Silverlight sites Photosynth picture of the inauguration whitehouse.gov on webforms – will Viewstate bring down the presidency? Armchair quarterbacking the whitehouse.gov site whitehouse.gov updates robots.txt And Twitter didn’t die! Question – [...]
FireScope – HTML and CSS reference add-on for Firebug
Sitepoint released a new add-on for Firefox called FireScope. It integrates with Firebug and gives you a new reference panel in Firebug. You can also access context menus in the CSS and HTML panels in Firebug and look up tags or attributes in the reference panel.
It looks like a great tool to have in your web development toolbox.


