Brewers
- Replace Cameron with Gwynn
- Replace Hall with Dillon
- Replace Weeks with whoever is left
- Get Corey Hart either batting first or second. Why is the best batter (not named Fielder or Braun) batting fifth in the order? Get him in front of Fielder and Braun
Periodic Table of Elements
Sweet Ajaxy/Wikipedia’d Periodic Table of Elements.
The Agnostic Developer
I think all developers (especially when they are young) have walked into a new programming job (or client) and instantly thought all the existing code is crap and needs to be re-written. We all have our own nuances and style of coding.
Reg Braithwaite wrote a small story about the different types of developers. His story starts with an “agnostic” developer who wrote a small snippet of code that worked. There were a million different ways to write the function, but his worked and it met the requirements. Several other developers imposed their style of code on the function and rewrote the piece several times. When the agnostic developer returned he found that the code was too complicated and now didn’t meet the original requirements.
I think Reginald is trying to point out that we (the developers) are there to provide a useful solution. A solution that can be read and maintained by all developers. It doesn’t mean you can’t do complex stuff (we wouldn’t be using CSS if that was the case). Just make it easy to read and find.
My friend and I have always wanted to build an uber-template. The “template to end all templates” would make creating any type of Lotus Notes application easy for anyone (think superNTF). Each time we thought we created the perfect process, we discovered that the process and terminology was great for us… but it took forever to explain to our colleagues. We typically developed tools and processes that nobody wanted except us. We learned that it wasn’t worth imposing our style on others. They’re getting their job done. Who are we to interfere just because we think our template was better.
Don’t forget to read the comments in Reg’s article. They’re a hoot.
FTLOG - R8 Basic Client
OK… our company is going to the R8 basic client due to computer limitations. I finally installed the R8 basic client today to do some testing.
Our 20,000 users are probably going to burn their IBM stock when they realize that they upgraded from 6.5 to 8.0.1 and saw virtually no improvements with their text editor.
My major complaint has always been with the bullets. Every text editor is smart enough to realize that when you add a second blank line to a bulleted list… it ends the list and sets the indent back to its original state. Lotus does neither after eight years.
Links 5-12-2008
Del.icio.us is now blocked at work. I have no way of saving my links. 
Here’s a few good links I found browsing Mike Gunderloy “A Fresh Cup.” (I really miss his old site larkware)
- Widgetfinger - CMS that is designed to automate as much as possible of very small sites.
- LiveHTTPHeaders - Header-monitoring add-in for Firefox. I honestly like ieHTTPHeaders better from a UI point of view - but not enough better to use IE.
- Responds to Parent - This may be another bit required to get multi-file uploads working: a way to send AJAX responses back from an IFRAME to its parent.
I believe in Harvey Dent
There’s a Dark Night trailer here. The movie looks fantastic!