Technical stuff Requirements are like water. They're easier to build on when they're frozen.

-> demonstrate the user concept with an imperfect solution that does the job, optimize along the way
-> tune the right portions of the application, not over-engineer from the very beginning
—> scale the scope to the nature of the problem
-> simplify
—> less code does not mean that it’s faster
—> PHP doubled the # of LOC in [...]

When people unite in order to achieve a goal, things are possible. IE6 is eating up our development time much more than it should. Moreover, it’s counter productive to keep a website’s functionality list short just because less than 20% of its users are using ancient browser.
Let’s support the IE6 no more initiative by including [...]

Tomorrow a new Ubuntu version will be released, 9.04. From the announced features, the ones I like most is the shipment of OpenOffice 3 (finally!) and a lot of feature enhancements to improve the user experience. The release nots are here.

ComputerWorld article.

It’s a nice story, just never ever do this.

Be careful: if you want to submit a form from Javascript using something like

this.form.submit();

or

document.forms[ myFormName ].submit();

and it gives you a nasty error like

submit is not a function

don’t despair, just:

look at the HTML source code:

<input id="submit" name="submit" value="Send to developer" type="submit" />

change the name of the button to something else, like:

<input id="mySubmitButton" name="mySubmitButton" value="Send to [...]

Yahoo! annnounces that all data collected will be anonymized after 3 months, from current 13 months.

A new version of the popular browser can now be used. Nice features have been added, we should see what’s in for the stability, though.

Mobility is more a requirement than an option nowadays. Meet the new WordPress for iPhone.

After many years of dominance from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, after Mozilla Firefox becaming our second nature, with interesting interface solutions from Safari, Google decides to enter the battle with the all-new Chrome. It’s not easy this time, but I think the tekkie world will quickly adopt it. It easily passes the ACID2 test and gets 78 out [...]