Rebooting. In case you’re wondering, no, I did not join the “blogging is so yesterday” movement. Or a cult. I spent the last few months thrashing between too many projects, doing a lot, yet accomplishing nothing. One big spinning pizza of death. Catching an annoying flu didn’t help either. The few posts I started to write, I just never got around to finishing.
I’m finishing or shedding most of these projects and clearing up time and head, and expect to pick pace soon. And to start off the new year, something I wish we could have left behind in 2008 …
Rumors of my death … Anne Thomas Manes declares SOA (the buzzword) dead. Unfortunately, some bad practices will outlive all of us, no matter how senseless they are, or what we should have learned from the past. And sadly, still kicking and screaming and refusing to go away, sexism.
Speaking of death. Last November, Wetpaint disabled their OpenID support, citing:
Out of over a million accounts, less than 200 registered users used OpenID.
A sample of one does not a trend make, but from the links/tweets I read, this one is shaping to be the bellwether for OpenID. If that’s not enough, there’s also some drama around the recent elections.
Iconographic status. HTTP status codes are nice and all (if a bit over abundant), but ever since the fail whale, it became clear they’re no substitute for iconography. What if, instead of specific codes we always return 200 and use a PNG to distinguish errors? Here’s bit.ly’s pufferfish, gobbling a 404.
Rounding up. RoundedCornr for rounding up your Web 2.0 corners.
Antoine
Chip Camden
Mat Schaffer