Tweets for the Week Ending 06.26.09
I've been on twitter for a while now. Typically, I'll post 4-5 tweets a day that are technical in nature. Lots of people don't follow Twitter religiously, so each Monday, I'll post on my tweets for the last week.
#GeekyButGood. Scaling tips for web apps. http://snipr.com/kxemj
I've been creating a JS/CF framework lately. Wish I had found these lessons out by reading instead of failing! http://snipr.com/kxdtt
Good tips on the procedure for ending a project. http://snipr.com/kxdop
Docking menu for jQuery. Nice. http://snipr.com/kxco
Good article for developers on minimalism. http://short.to/hlcv
A truly cautionary tale of company IT incompetence. http://short.to/hllq
Good! Challenging the orthodoxy of TDD. http://is.gd/1cWPY
Great set of tutorials by Google on speeding web pages. http://code.google.com/speed/articles/
When relational databases may not be the best answer. http://short.to/hgzb
Yay! Barbara Liskoff wins the Turing Award. http://snipr.com/kuecz?
Important article on improving your thinking. http://trkk.us/?gbG. (Thanks to Guy Kawasaki)
Interesting article on "Visual Decision Making" . http://short.to/h7ur
Resources for building mobile web apps/sites. http://short.to/hd3b
Google's ideas for "Making the Web Faster". http://snipr.com/ks11a
Amazing. Videos showing Augmented Reality (AR). http://is.gd/1bLdu
RT @clarkvalberg: 10 User Interface Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To (via @smashingmag): http://bit.ly/4caJhc
Kent Beck on charging for software. I feel your pain, Kent. http://www.6zap.com/blog/?p=186
Flairbuilder -- an excellent AIR-based prototyping tool. http://www.flairbuilder.com
Just what we need: restriction on number of downloads on Kindle. http://is.gd/1a4V2
Extensive collection of links to software for wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, and screen captures. http://www.iaapps.com/
Important! On the Fallacy of Reuse. http://bit.ly/hQ3H5
RT @markdrew: Leaked video of MacBook Pro Transformer: http://bit.ly/5vBlT ... Loved the comments: "this is fake" (via @lovely_djay)
Interesting! Easily providing different UI states for prototyping. http://code.new-bamboo.co.uk/polypage/
Nice tutorial on Git with illustrations. http://bit.ly/1jx20f
Very nice jQuery ribbon control. http://jqueryribbon.codeplex.com/
American grads "unemployable" by companies? Sad but true...http://short.to/h181
Really important post on the counter-intuitive connection between choices and actions. http://sivers.org/jam
I was looking at #coldbox recently. Wow, THAT is the way to release docs and samples for an open source app!
My new blog post on building an open source ecommerce system in CF. http://is.gd/17GEk
Asynchronous image loading with jQuery. http://short.to/gtnf
Good post by #kathysierra on glibness v. depth. http://short.to/gsga


i'd not worry about them Hal, they're obviously not dedicated enough. ;)