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Is your Web API painful to use? 4 common mistakes that scream “YES!”

December 11th, 2008 · No Comments

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“It was the damnedest thing; I walked right past a group of those computer geek types and they were organized into two sides arguing about, of all things, rest versus soap. I’m not kidding. Don’t they realize they could use a lot more of both?” - the same non-techie who walked past [...]

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The Paradox of Change: Rewrite that Web App

August 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Those working at the highest levels of abstraction inherit the most change from below.
Your application framework may be like standing on the shoulders of a giant, but that giant is a beneficiary of an entire civilization, which is nested on the ground of the Earth, which itself is locked in orbit around the Sun, which [...]

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Screencasting with CamStudio and Jumpcut

February 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

[[ This is a first draft I posted rather quickly since I needed to share these instructions with a few people immediately. I'll be returning to this article to clean things up. ]]
Putting your screencast on most video sharing sites will require you to use resolutions much smaller than full-screen, high-definition video. It’s [...]

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