Smashing UI. Speaking of jQuery, it does have the most interesting range of UI controls, which I suspect has everything to do with the ability to plug it into any page. Classical case of a feature I don’t care for specifically, but definitely care for the benefits it provides. Here’s a roundup of some 49 impressive jQuery plugins and techniques, courtesy of Smashing Magazine.
Just about everyone seems in love with the new jQuery API Browser. I don’t. But it certainly looks sexy. And just because its super cool and I wish I had a use for it, jParallax (thanks, Sterling)
Hubris experience. Every company thinks its special. So special, customers should be grateful for the mere privilege of doing business with the company. Call it egocentric design, hubris experience, entitlement architecture. The truth is, your customers don’t care as much as you wish they would. They just want to get the product or use the service and get on with other, more important things.
Ironically, if you design software by putting the emphasis on others, you end up increasing your value to other people. Funny how that works. Anyway, here’s the story of the $300 million button.
Math is hard! Turns out you can be senior editor at ”the leader in network knowledge” journal, and not know how to multiply. Even more fun, you can work for the Sunday Times and invent all sort of facts about Google and tea cups. You too can do it, and what better way to start than by writing your own Steve Jobs medical story.
‘95 called, it wants its Form back. Would you be using Git if the front-end looked like a low-budget Windows 95 Visual Basic application?
Fitting weekend for a Prisoner marathon. The Prisoner rebooted is coming this November, a very long “this” from now. To pass the time, AMC is airing all 17 episodes of the original show in BitTorrent quality (i.e. no commercial interruption)
Image, one of many cool coffee packages.
Henry Barth