(Untitled)- August 28, 2002 .NET books One of the many things I'm enjoying about .NET is the unprecedented high quality of the stuff written about it. Reading Petzold's .NET book reminded me of his venerable Programming Windows 3.1, of course, because he covers the same material (and nothing else). The earlier book was simply indispensible because that's all we had. He's been such a hero all these years because, for many of us, we wouldn't have been able to write software at all if not for his book. But things have...http://radio.weblogs.com/0104841/2002/08/28.html#a95 (Untitled)- August 28, 2002 A few recent CSS demos that capture the reasons why CSS is a good thing - simple markup and separation of layout and content. View the source to see how clean it is. First some trickery with floats and negative margins. Followed by a few CSS buttons And finally, a rollover with only one image and no javascript. I think they're all from Simon Willison's Weblog.http://radio.weblogs.com/0104841/2002/08/27.html#a92 (Untitled)- August 26, 2002 There just isn't enough bandwidth to do good design when a team is geographically dispersed. I'm not saying it can't be done at all, but the results are vastly better when the entire team is physically in the same location. I'm convinced of this, and will never agree to do software development with a dispersed team. Joel on Software I love to work from home, and yet I agree with Joel. I live twenty minutes from the office and go in three or four times a week to meetings, lunches, training.http://radio.weblogs.com/0104841/2002/08/26.html#a90 (Untitled)- August 25, 2002 Ray Ozzie is encouraging Groove employees to write blogs and has posted some Personal Website and Weblog Guidelines. What an enlightened company! I seriously doubt whether my employers have heard of weblogs.http://radio.weblogs.com/0104841/2002/08/25.html#a89 |