Jumping Through Hoops James Higgs’s Blog

del.icio.us links for 2008-03-18

JetBrains make Omea Reader open source - One of the best RSS readers on Windows is now open source

Spolsky on IE8 and Standards

Joel Spolsky has a long article on the subject of the IE team’s decision to prioritise standards over compatibility in IE8. While he cheekily claims not to be taking any sides, it’s pretty clear he’s with the pragmatists.
So am I.

37-smug-nals

Jason Fried has a post reporting on various phrases and words that show up in 37signals’ internal Campfire discussions. One report I’d like to see is how many times the word ’smug’ appeared. That’d be one hell of a big report.

del.icio.us links for 2008-03-11

Mono on the iPhone - Miguel de Icaza - Holy crap - .NET on an iPhone. Is nothing sacred?
Selecting and Masking in Photoshop CS3 | Layers Magazine -

del.icio.us links for 2008-03-06

Steve Jobs speaks out - FORTUNE - “It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want.” - Steve Jobs on Apple’s approach to innovation.

It’s official

I am the greatest. The iPhone said so:

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And I didn’t Photoshop it, either.

iPhone development

Now this is very exciting.

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I predict that the iPhone SDK will be seen as a watershed in the history of computing, as important as the the first PC. For the first time, proper mobile computing will be a reality.
I can’t wait to get started developing my first app.

Dare Obasanjo stops blogging

I’m sad to see that Dare Obasanjo has decided to stop blogging. Among other things, I’ve found his coverage of the REST vs. WS-* debate very useful. It was Dare who first brought RSS and blogging to my attention through his MSDN Magazine article Building a Desktop News Aggregator. The code he developed for that [...]

Microsoft screw the pooch again

Oh dear. It looked for a while as though Microsoft was going to make the right decision on compatibility vs. standards compliance in IE8. But they’ve reversed their decision now. Why? The Microsoft Interoperability Principles.
I pointed out the reasons that their original approach was the right one a few weeks ago.
So, once again, a press [...]

del.icio.us links for 2008-02-29

CodeProject: A Naive Bayesian Spam Filter for C#. Free source code and programming help -