Musings

Here’s today’s interesting stories: [Doing Extreme Programming P-P-p-powerbook – or how a scammer get’s what he deserves Leo – a programmers editor, browser and literary programming tool David Shea on when Tables are OK – CSS is good and there still is (some) room for tables not long now – a nano future

And it’s the same old song that has been played for centuries. The civilised world is going down. No – I’m not talking about the torturing in Iraq. Not about the boneheadedness of some of our politicians. It’s not about Six Aparts controversial new licensing scheme for Movable Type (me? I’m planning my move to Textpattern) I’m talking about Günther. [ link via vowe ] It seems that the music industry sees it fit to produce garbage like the one I linked to (and I urge you to click on the link, so that the bandwidth bill of the Warner Music explodes). This is what they have money for. On the other hand, the music industry (and of course also Warner) cuts jobs left and right, stops production and distribution of local music and sues people that are listening to “real” music. ...

Another get’s bitten by the Blog Virus (although Dani at the moment only seems to have a light blog-flu. Welcome to the club, and please write more ;-)

ZAPPATA has it’s own forum now The main website isn’t updated yet, but Raphaël and I are proud to present to you the ZAPPATA forum Expect more information soon. In the meantime - join our forum and discuss with us

If you provide an option to test something, make sure that it tests the right thing The ZAPPATA crew was doing some spike testing today with different technologies, and due to the nature of the OS market, we did the tests with the tools most widely in use: Windows XP and Outlook. The Microsoft-Way is a Wizard-Way. Unfortunately, some of the wizards need wizard like skills to operate or make sense of. One task that is automated by a wizard is the setting up of a new email account in Outlook. The friendly wizard takes you through different questions and sets up the mail account. We were trying to set up an account to a simple POP / SMTP server - but one that requires authentication. So we clicked on the correct options (“My outgoing SMTP Server requires authentication”, entered name and password) and then proceeded to click on the big Test Settings button provided. It found the POP server, it found the SMTP server, it checked of various other items as successfull and then failed the test of sending a message. Ok - wrong option, or so we thought. We went back to the advanced options. Changed settings. Tested. Fail. Changed settings. Tests. Looked at server logs. ...

Having clear URLs on your page or in your web applictation not only is a help to users, but make you think about structure and usability. And - I was wrong I just happend to come across an email on the Prius Mailing List that had a number of links to Prius ressources. With great pleasure I present to you the most outraegous URL I have ever come across (and as a Domino Developer, I have come across nasty URLs, believe me!) ...