28/12/2005 @ 00:14 GMT
kayodeok : Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers - The first step in becoming an effective programmer is to ensure that you are spending your time wisely. And there is no greater waste of time than in working on something that is not useful or never shipped
Rod Begbie : Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers - Some excellent tips for living the programming life, with plenty of examples. [via] #
Paul Hammond : Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers - the ability to complete projects in a timely manner with the expected quality
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15/12/2005 @ 18:09 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Web-based text files with Yahoo! Notepad - Web-based text files with Yahoo! Notepad: heh. everything that's old is new again
kayodeok : Web-based text files with Yahoo! Notepad - Imagine an easy way to append ideas, to-do’s and other notes to self to an @home-todo.txt file from the office, knowing it’ll be there when you get home without any special setup, server, emailing, FTP’ing or transferring back and for
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8/12/2005 @ 15:56 GMT
joshua : Tofu - for reading documents
jimray : Amar Sagoo - Tofu - App for reading text better on your mac
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29/11/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
kayodeok : Printing a Book with CSS: Boom! - HTML is the dominant document format on the web and CSS is used to style most HTML pages. But, are they suitable for off-screen use? Can CSS be used for serious print jobs?
deusx : A List Apart: Articles: Printing a Book with CSS: Boom! - It's like Microformats meets DocBook! Or something.
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16/11/2005 @ 23:55 GMT
kayodeok : Geek to Live: Turn Firefox into a web writer - If you spend a lot of time writing the web with Firefox, soup up your “browser� with a few extensions that will turn it into a powerful text editor
ricmac : Geek to Live: Turn Firefox into a web writer - Lifehacker
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2/11/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Write effectively for the Web - Lifehacker - Write effectively for the Web - Lifehacker: good advice
deusx : Geek to Live: Write effectively for the Web - Lifehacker - "Writing online is a much different undertaking than writing on paper."
kayodeok : Geek to Live: Write effectively for the Web - Note: these tips mostly focus on journalistic and business writing and will benefit news bloggers and cube warriors who use online tools to communicate. Many but not all of these tips will apply to weblog comments, forum posts, and e-mail messages
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2/11/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Paul Ford and alter-ego Gary Benchley in the NY Times - Paul Ford and alter-ego Gary Benchley in the NY Times. Paul Ford. Gary Benchley.
gleuschk : Paul Ford and alter-ego Gary Benchley in the NY Times - "big-bellied"? "shabby"? Good thing they like the book.
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17/10/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Jakob Nielsen on weblog usability - Jakob Nielsen's latest Alertbox is about weblog usability. I actually think most of these are pretty good, but as with all such guidelines, they are made to be broken. (Comment on this)
kayodeok : Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes - Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues, making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author
Linkorama : Weblog Usability - The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
ricmac : Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - useful tips in here.
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13/10/2005 @ 22:23 GMT
merlinmann : handwriting tips - Man, do I ever need this. [thanks, David La Spina]
kayodeok : Tips for improving your handwriting - People who inevitably have trouble with handwriting and calligraphy write with their fingers. They "draw" the letters. A finger-writer puts the full weight of his/her hand on the paper, his fingers form the letters, and he picks his hand up repeatedly to
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10/10/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
plasticbag : There's a great post on "Creating Passionate Users" called 'How to speak at a tech conference', which isn't really about the style of talking but about how to get accepted to attend.. - It's a good read, it's solid and it's true - I'd recommend everyone who is interested in submitting papers should read it thoroughly...
deusx : Creating Passionate Users: How to speak at a tech conference - "Do NOT wait for an invitation!"
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6/10/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Synchroedit, open-source real-time multiuser web editor - whew, that's a mouthful; sounds like the open-source version of Jot Live
kayodeok : SynchroEdit - SynchroEdit is a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same-time, different-place groupware. It allows multiple users to edit a single web-based document at the same time, and it continuously synchronizes all changes so that users always
Jeremy Zawodny : SynchroEdit - SynchroEdit: "SynchroEdit is a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same-time, different-place groupware. It allows multiple users to edit a single web-based document at the same time, and it continuously synchronizes all changes so
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4/10/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Official site for Paul Ford's "Gary Benchley, Rock Star" - What it says. Buy it now.
jimray : Gary Benchley, Rock Star - A novel by Paul Ford
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26/09/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : defective yeti: Vokarlbulary - I love it. #
deusx : defective yeti: Vokarlbulary - "White crayon ('hwIt 'krA-"n), n: A useless person or thing you are nonetheless required to have for the sake of completeness or tradition."
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21/09/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
jkottke : Writing sensible email messages - Merlin's excellent advice for writing sensible email messages. This one is excellent advice for email and blog comments: "Emails to a thread are like comments at a meeting; think of both like your time possessing the basketball. Don't just chuck at the ne
WillPate : 43 Folders | Writing sensible email messages - Essential resource for writing productive emails
kayodeok : 43 Folders | Writing sensible email messages - Writing sensible email messages
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7/09/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Conversational writing kicks formal writing's ass - Conversational writing kicks formal writing's ass: uhm, duh?
kayodeok : Creating Passionate Users: Conversational writing kicks formal writing's ass - "The second-person pronoun (you) lets the author hook the reader as if in conversation. Call it cozy. Call it confiding. You is a favorite of the Plain English folks, who view it as an antidote to the stiff impersonality of legalese and urge bureaucrats t
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2/09/2005 @ 02:55 GMT
jimray : The Blue Technologies Group : Ulysses - Nifty looking text editor, for people who hate traditional word processors
joshua : Ulysses - writing tool
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1/09/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
kayodeok : Writely - Simple & secure web document sharing - Writely is an online word processor that allows you to keep track of version history, share documents (in semi-real-time!) and so much more
Jeremy Zawodny : Writely - Writely: The Web Word Processor. Beta, of course. It's Web 2.0, ya know?
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4/08/2005 @ 17:56 GMT
joshua : Gobby - multiplatform multiuser text editor
Rod Begbie : Gobby - Cross-platform multi-user text editor - Multiple users collaborating in realtime across the SubEtha on text documents. [via] #
jimray : Gobby - Free, cross platform, multi-user text editor
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20/07/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : So You Want to Write a Book? - O'Reilly's tips on how to get published
deusx : So You Want to Write a Book? - "A Guide for New Authors"
jkottke : "So You Want to Write a Book?" - O'Reilly Media's guide for new authors.
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17/07/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
kayodeok : how to be creative - "So you want to be more creative, in art, in business, whatever. Here are some tips that have worked for me over the years."
gleuschk : gapingvoid: how to be creative - those great business card cartoons
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14/07/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
jimray : Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer's Shortcut to Stronger Writing by C.J. Cherryh - Writing without sounding like a writer
kayodeok : Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer's Shortcut to Stronger Writing by C.J. Cherryh - Writerisms: overused and misused language. In more direct words: find 'em, root 'em out, and look at your prose without the underbrush
Jeremy Zawodny : Writerisms and other Sins - Writerisms and other Sins: some helpful hints for writers
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9/07/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
gleuschk : Bloggers Need Not Apply (Chronicle of Higher Education) - "Job seekers who are also bloggers may have a tough road ahead"
kayodeok : Bloggers Need Not Apply - The content of the blog may be less worrisome than the fact of the blog itself. Several committee members expressed concern that a blogger who joined our staff might air departmental dirty laundry (real or imagined) on the cyber clothesline for the world
plasticbag : An interesting / disturbing take on how much you reveal about yourself on your weblog and what impact that might have on job interviews - Search seems to be the main problem - in that if someone looks for negative connotations in your posts, then they'll have them delivered to them...
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7/07/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : God's Little Toys, confessions of a cut and paste artist
deusx : Wired 13.07: God's Little Toys - "We seldom legislate new technologies into being."
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1/07/2005 @ 10:55 GMT
philgyford : David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon University - Basically, "learn to think for yourself." (And the page is crying out for more leading.)
gleuschk : David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon University - Reed has been on my mind a lot lately, and this is a great addition to the swirl of thinking I've been doing
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22/06/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
Wayne Burkett : Links to essays in Best Software Writing I #
ricmac : Best Software Writing I - Links to the essays Joel Spolsky chose for his new book.
kayodeok : Links to essays in Best Software Writing I - Joel Spolsky has compiled a book of essays on software, which he calls The Best Software Writing I. The essays all came from online sources, [...] here they are
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