November 30, 2006 – 1:40 pm
My favorite book about writing is On Writing Well by William Zinsser. He says:
Soon after you confront the matter of preserving your identity, another question will occur to you: “Who am I writing for?”
It’s a fundamental question, and it has a fundamental answer: You are writing for yourself. Don’t try to visualize the great mass […]
November 30, 2006 – 11:38 am
Actually, those two things have little to do with each other except that I wrote about them both during the last 24 hours:
On my RedMonk blog, I discussed XML-based UI definition languages including XForms, something that’s been on my mind for a little while.
For Web Worker Daily, I ask whether the impending consumer launch of […]
November 28, 2006 – 9:07 am
Thanks everyone for all the congratulations and welcomes and good wishes on my new work with RedMonk.
Just so you know where you can find me online, here’s the rundown.
My delicious link posts will now move permanently to tech decentral at RedMonk, since the vast majority of them are technology related. You can follow my bookmarks […]
November 27, 2006 – 10:56 am
I am pleased–no, thrilled–to announce that I am joining RedMonk as an analyst. The bulk of my technology blogging will now happen at tech decentral, where I have some initial posts up describing what’s so great about RedMonk, what technologies I’ll be covering, and why I named the blog tech decentral.
You can subscribe to tech […]
November 19, 2006 – 8:59 pm
If you are a web developer, the answer is almost certainly NO.
I write this knowing it will tweak those people who think that Java still matters to the web development world. But it doesn’t. So sorry.
What technologies do matter for web development?
HTML and CSS
JavaScript
PHP
MySQL
And perhaps:
Flash (but not if Adobe keeps being coy about it)
Why do […]
November 18, 2006 – 9:43 am
Curse wildly.
Scream for your spouse.
Turn the MacBook over and pour all the excess coffee out.
Blot up what you can with paper towels.
Let it dry.
Feel relieved that it still boots.
Realize that a good portion of the keyboard is nonfunctional.
Curse some more.
Make a reservation at the local Apple store’s Genius Bar, and hope they can fix it […]
November 16, 2006 – 12:52 pm
Will Ajax overtake Flash in 2007? More likely, we’ll see a proliferation of web apps and sites that use a combination of Ajax and Flash, as it becomes easier to combine the two and as developers find the best way to use each. We’ll see a bit more Java too in the browser, not necessarily […]
November 15, 2006 – 10:17 am
I suggested to Shelley that the reason her semantic web post didn’t appear on techmeme was because of blog churn (referring to her refactoring of her blogging across various sites) and not because of gender discrimination; she pointed out how I was wrong, and I stand corrected. But I think the concept of blog churn […]
November 12, 2006 – 4:57 pm
Agreed, the Web 2.0/3.0/whatever-dot-oh is totally overdone. I’m going to change the name of my blog, I’m so tired of it all. Leisa suggested “Anne 2.1.6.” I like that–completely precise and totally meaningless.
Speaking of meaning, I don’t think that what we get from semantic web technologies is shared meaning. What we want from the next […]
November 11, 2006 – 9:03 pm
Not a regular series because most Saturday nights I’m either out on a hot date or fighting off the horde of children I’ve produced, due to previous hot dates. Next Saturday night we’re going to The Magic Flute with some of our favorite neighborhood friends, week after that, back to the horde.
So here it is, […]
