Links published on March 15, 2007
Are Web Interfaces “Good Enough”?
Eckel sees a world of JavaScript and DHTML that’s inappropriate for large applications. I see a world of large applications that are inappropriate for most users. It’s high time we scaled down and scaled back.
This goes back to the various adages about how 90% of MS Word users don’t use 90% of the features in MS Word, and is a vital thing for web-app developers to pick up on.
Python, Django and DB2
Antonio needs help planning out a DB2 driver for Python (and eventual Django backend for it), so head over and help him out!
Why I don’t plan on doing business with FOX again
That really sucks.
Choice quote:
This Little Company is at its best when it is flying the jolly roger. We work and play well with others, but apparently mainly those others that, like us, are on the outside. This episode thoroughly re-taught me that lesson, one that I won’t soon forget. That’s not to say that we can’t work with big corporations — we just can’t until we look the people who pull the pursestrings in the eye and they tell us that they, too, believe. And probably even then, we wouldn’t be safe unless they had a financial stake in our success.
One other thing is clear to me: We will, sooner rather than later, eat these larger media corporations for lunch, unless they learn how to behave in a world of distributed media.
Disclaimer: they’re Django/Ellington powered. Neither that, nor knowing folks who work there, has any effect on my opinion that Fox sucks.