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Joel on Software on resumes
Joel on Software on resumes
01/26/2004 12:42 PMKiller Joel on Software rant about how to write a tech resume
-- though this could handily apply to any situation where you're
trying to wheedle a favor out of someone alongside of many other
wheedlers: sending a manuscript to a publisher, raising money from
investors, or even trying to get someone to blog your project.
Don't tell me about one of the requirements of the position and then
tell me that you don't want to follow it. "One of the requirements for
Summer Internship says that you need to interview in person in New
York City. I am interested in the position but I stay in East Nowhere,
TN." OK, that's nice, hon, you stay there. Another PS, I thought we
said in the requirements "Excellent command of written and spoken
English." Oh, yes, indeed, that was our first requirement. So at least
do yourself a favor and get someone to check your cover letter for
obvious mistakes. Like I said, don't give me an excuse to throw your
resume in the trash.
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Random Rants
Random Rants
04/15/2005 04:40 AM US Government Bans Books: According to the security guy that patted
me down, it's not just lighters not allowed on flights, but our book
capacity has been trimmed from 4 to 2. Tivo and Netflix Need Each
Other: Why...
New Section: Rants and Raves
New Section: Rants and Raves
10/08/2002 07:10 AM"Early morning RSS rants"
"Early morning RSS rants"
12/15/2003 10:29 PMEarly morning RSS rants
Early morning RSS rants
12/09/2003 10:57 AM
RSS clearly is about to go through another growth spurt. And as
with each other time its eclipsed its former self there are people who
seem to want to take control, redefine it in some bizarre and
undignified way. If people would first study the history of RSS and
see how much it has suffered from this kind of greed, perhaps they'd
back off and just be grateful that there's new technology that makes
the Internet much more useful, and leave it at that. (They usually say
their ignorance is their strength, btw.)
The name RSS is every bit as good as any other name you can
come up with, and it has the advantage that it's the name everyone
uses. Read a marketing text book. It doesn't matter what it's called,
rather that it means something in lots of brains. Trying to make a new
name stick will only make the whole thing weaker.
For example, imagine falling in love with someone. "You're the
perfect person for me," you say. "But your name doesn't communicate
who you are. Let's have a contest to come up with a new name for you."
Now, how clueless would that be?
One more thing. There's a myth going around that there is a way
to do publish-subscribe without polling. Not true. At some level,
every apparently non-polling technology is built on, you guessed it,
polling. It's all just an illusion. Computers don't really do
interrupts. At some level it's polling.
Now, should an aggregator be polling every 30 minutes? The
convention early on was no more than once an hour. But newer
aggregators either never heard of the convention or chose to ignore
it. Some aggregators let the users scan whenever they want. Please
don't do that. Once an hour is enough. Otherwise bandwidth bills won't
scale. Further, there are good ways to optimize this stuff, but that
would require cooperation among members of the community. And this
community is well-known for not cooperating with each other. We let a small
number of people fillibuster the mail lists, people who don't produce
software on either end of the RSS equation, and thereby progress
happens in very small steps if it ever happens at all.
Net-net, it's good that users are taking an interest in RSS.
But it's bad that they're behaving just as the geeks did, selfishly,
in a controlling way, fighting over things that were decided a long
time ago. Human nature comes along for the ride with us on our journey
to more effective communication tools. Can people see the big picture
and let good stuff like RSS rise to the top without pulling it down?
I've become a pessimist over the years, I think they can't help
themselves. So it's a miracle something new happened. Enjoy it while
you can.
"stupid and unintentionally humorous
rants"
"stupid and unintentionally humorous
rants"
08/06/2004 02:56 PMWiner's Early Morning RSS Rants
Winer's Early Morning RSS Rants
12/30/2003 12:07 AMDave Winer ra
nts about RSS.
Random rants, thoughts and general all
around bs
Random rants, thoughts and general all
around bs
12/09/2003 04:54 PMRemember the game Candyland? I dreamt I lived there and it's not as
sticky as I thought it would be....
Rants System Quotes Bug Fixed
Rants System Quotes Bug Fixed
10/08/2002 07:10 AMAlton Brown.com • Rants &
Raves!
Alton Brown.com • Rants &
Raves!
12/30/2003 06:11 AMAirport Security Confiscates Food TV Star's Omelet Pan! .. explains
why you shouldn't oversharpen your knife .. and wound up in handcuffs
.. Alton Brown's omlette pan .. inadvertent shopliifting .. complete
with blog .. online journal .. Good Eats
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Perfectly Good Rants Gone To Waste
Perfectly Good Rants Gone To Waste
03/27/2005 12:35 PMInformation Week Mar 27 2005 3:33PM GMT
Joel on Unicode
Joel on Unicode
11/13/2003 01:57 AMJoel of
Joel on Software
has put together a
great
overview of Unicode that all programmers should read.
Joel on Software
Joel on Software
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Joel and MySQL
Joel and MySQL
02/03/2003 11:25 PMExcellent. Joel's software now works with MySQL in addition to SQL
Server. Why he linked to his own content only and not the MySQL home
page is beyond me. Anyway, it's good to see more software adding MySQL
support on...
Joel on Eric
Joel on Eric
12/15/2003 09:11 PMJoel Spolsky's latest essay reviews Eric Raymond's The Art of Unix Programming
(a book I really want to pick up) and uses it as background
for a discussion of the cultural differences between Windows and Unix
programmers. As always, it's an insightful piece.
Joel's key point is that while Unix programmers write code for
other programmers, Windows programmers write code for end users. Unix
programs end up being far more powerful and flexible, but Windows
programs allow Aunt Madge to send email. Joel places the blame for the
lack of success of Linux as a desktop operating systems on the
cultural values that underpin it, which celebrate the diversity of
multiple window managers rather than condeming them for confusing end
users.
It's all good stuff. I'd argue that the rise of web-based
applications balances the playing field somewhat in terms of ease of
use of the different platforms - most people can handle a web
application now (look at the success of webmail) and most browser
behave in pretty much the same way no matter what operating system
they run on. I guess that's why Microsoft were so scared of Netscape
back in 1996.
The Mac Observer: Dr. Mac: Rants &
Raves - First Look: Hands-On With
GarageBand
The Mac Observer: Dr. Mac: Rants &
Raves - First Look: Hands-On With
GarageBand
01/18/2004 12:22 AMThe Mac Observer: Dr. Mac: Rants & Raves - First Look: Hands-On With
GarageBand .. Bob LeVitus ..
reviews
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Two rants on Geneva's crappy WiFi, one
fictional, one non-
Two rants on Geneva's crappy WiFi, one
fictional, one non-
12/13/2003 12:43 PMLessig's just got back form the World Summit on the Information
Society in Geneva, where he ran into the Swiss version of WiFi, a
craptacular extravaganza of telecom stupidity compounded by the irony
of hosting a summit on the "Information Society" where it's easier to
get a gift bag of conference schwag than an Internet connection.
Lessig's
rant on the subject is entertaining, and it put me in mind of a section I
wrote for my novel-in-progress, "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves
Town," which is about community wireless hackers (among other things)
and this chunk was inspired by my trip to Geneva a couple months ago
to attend the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights.
I've uploaded the relevant section.
"No problem -- outside every hotel and most of the cafes, I can
find a signal for a network called 'SwissCom.' I log on to the
network and I fire up a browser and I get a screen asking me for
my password. Well, I don't have one, but after poking around, I
find out that I can buy a card with a temporary password on it.
So I wait until some of the little smoke-shops open and start
asking them if they sell SwissCom Internet Cards, in my terrible,
miserable French, and after chuckling at my accent, they look at
me and say, 'I have no clue what you're talking about,' shrug,
and go back to work.
"Then I get the idea to go and ask at the hotels. The first one,
the guy tells me that they only sell cards to guests, since
they're in short supply. The cards are in short supply! Three
hotels later, they allow as how they'll sell me a 30-minute card.
Oh, that's fine. 30 whole minutes of connectivity. Whoopee. And
how much will that be? Only about a zillion Swiss pesos. Don't
they sell cards of larger denominations? Oh sure, two hours, 24
hours, seven days -- and each one costs about double the last, so
if you want, you can get a seven day card for about as much as
you'd spend on a day's worth of connectivity in 30-minute
increments -- about $300 Canadian for a week, just FYI.
"Well, paying 300 bucks for a week's Internet is ghastly, but
very Swiss, where they charge you if you have more than two bits
of cheese at breakfast, and hell, I could afford it. But Three
hundred bucks for a day's worth of 30-minute cards? Fuck that. I
was going to have to find a seven-day card or bust. So I ask at a
couple more hotels and finally find someone who'll explain to me
that SwissCom is the Swiss telco, and that they have a retail
storefront a couple blocks away where they'd sell me all the
cards I wanted, in whatever denominations I require.
LinkDrumwaster's Rants!: The 65th Carnival
of the Vanities!
Drumwaster's Rants!: The 65th Carnival
of the Vanities!
12/18/2003 06:57 AM65th
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Joel on Software - Biculturalism
Joel on Software - Biculturalism
12/15/2003 09:25 PMdifferences between the unix and windows cultures .. Joel on Software
- Biculturalism .. Biculturalism .. latest essay ..
essay
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joel on Getting Your Résumé Read
joel on Getting Your Résumé Read
01/26/2004 03:05 PMi'd add: don't give a bullet-point list of where you've been, give me
a list of *what you've done*
Joel on Software - Getting Your R©sum©
Read
Joel on Software - Getting Your R©sum©
Read
01/26/2004 11:32 AMJoel Spolsky offers tips for getting someone to read your CV when
applying for a job .. Joel on Software - Getting Your Rsum
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Berkeley on Joel Spolsky
Berkeley on Joel Spolsky
02/10/2004 02:56 AM
One of the great things about living in Berkeley is that a lot of
interesting people come to town, from
political
figures giving talks on campus to
writers at
Cody's to musicians playing at
Freight and Salvage, and if you
are at all adventurous you can hear and meet many of them. Tonight
Berkeley was host to a leading light from the small world of software
product and project management, (which also happens to be my
profession, to the
extent I have one), Joel Spolsky, who writes a well-regarded weblog on
software management,
Joel on Software.
The venue was a funny one, a cafe called
Au Coquelet that also served
as my alternative office and favorite lunch spot for the eight years
that I had an office around the corner. It is a business person's
lunch place and a student's dinner and study and hang out place.
So I walked into the cafe tonight and looked around for the Joel group
-- like any other geek, I was too shy to ask anyone, but when I
spotted a big table lined entirely with males, mostly in their
mid-twenties to early forties, not too well dressed, predominantly
European-American, I knew that I had found the geek gathering. It was
a curious scene. Joel was ensconced at the first table, attempting to
swallow bites of foot between responding to questions. Latecomers like
myself were filling in the table around the corner, where we slowly
warmed up to each other by discussing computers in education and
citing favorite Joel essays like
The Law of Leaky Abstractions,
12 Steps to Better Code, and
Fire And Motion. The crowd included its
share of local luminaries, such as Berkeley tech writer
Scott Mace, Salon Managing
Editor
Scott Rosenberg,
Ten Speed Press founder
Phil Wood,
Perl Guru
Sriram "Ram"
Srinivasan, plus the usual
crowd of
dot-com crash victims, cashed-out retirees and survivors looking for
the next interesting thing that I run into at any tech gatherings
these days. Next to us were two undergraduate women, who slowly got
more and more alarmed as more men kept arriving and hauling over
tables, eventually enveloping them on three sides, at which point the
women got up and left.
It is always fun meeting someone whom one knows only through their
writing, and to compare their online persona to their physical one. In
his writing in
Joel
on Software, Joel always comes across as a little Olympian,
delivering his deep insights from his vast experience. Actually, I
suspect that he just thinks more analytically about his experience
than most of us, and he writes very well. His online persona is calm,
considered, and wise. As another
C
alifornian reviewer noted, even though his website sports a
picture of the skyline of Seattle, Joel Spolsky in person definitely
comes across like a New Yorker, especially when surrounded by a sea of
Californians. He spoke rapidly, intensely, bobbing his head as he held
forth with opinions on all matters technical, changing topics with
every other sentence, and punctuating each topic with a wisecrack.
Although claiming exhaustion from his travels, he was the most
energetic person in the room, and he was clearly performing, and
performing well. He seemed to enjoy his performance as well, and he
was good at it. Talking to him, it was clear that he would be very
hard to best in an argument, because, as anyone who reads
Joel on Software
knows, he has a lot of intellectual horsepower and can express himself
very well, but also because he clearly has a lot of stamina for
arguing, and would be hard to outlast. The major deviation that he
exhibited from the New York stereotype was his politeness. After he
finished his meal he got up and moved to another table to talk with
some of the other folks who had come, then after a while moved to the
next table. He was as attentive to the questions of the
twenty-something programmers as he was to those of the local
luminaries.
One of the things that was curious was to see the crowd (myself
included) surrounding Joel and treating him like a Delphic Oracle,
asking him "what are Mozilla/Firebird's chances of establishing
browser competition again(good), how do you decide what features to
put in the next version of Fog Buzz (whatever features the lack of
which clearly blocked sales of the last version), what would you use
for developing a cross-platform GUI desktop app (don't know). After
all, even if he is smarter than I am he probably isn't any smarter
than many of the people I've worked with over the years. What's the
difference? He writes, frequently and well. It's nice to know that
writing still can bring authority, as well as a bit of celebrity.
All in all, a very pleasant and informative evening. Thank you Joel
for organizing it.
Cross posted on
The Berkeley
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Joel On Microsoft's API Mistakes
06/16/2004 06:00 PMJoel on Software - Craftsmanship
Joel on Software - Craftsmanship
12/03/2003 04:04 AMcraftsmanship
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"Joel on Software - Biculturalism"
"Joel on Software - Biculturalism"
12/16/2003 08:48 PMJoel on Software - It's Not Just
Usability
Joel on Software - It's Not Just
Usability
09/07/2004 03:50 PMJoel on Software - It's Not Just
Usability
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Game developers' amazing rants on the
state of the industry
Game developers' amazing rants on the
state of the industry
03/14/2005 05:29 PMCory Doctorow:
Alice continues to take fantastic, exhaustive notes at the Game
Developers' Conference in San Francisco. She's just posted her notes
from the closing panel in which eminent game developers were invited
to rant about the state of the industry. What follows is lewd,
hilarious, and very, very true:
Greg Costikyan:
I don't know about you but I could have been a lawyer, or a carpenter.
or a sous-chef. How many of you are here because you're after a
paycheck? [One bloke raises his hand, audience laughs and crows].
Ahuh. And how many of you are here because you love games? [all hands
go up]. Right. So we're being told that everything's going to get
bigger. Paychecks. Budgets. Consoles. But is it going to get better?
I've been researching old board games and I've spotted a pattern. A
new genre: it's called One Hit Game And Its Imitators. One fishing
game appears in mid-19C and dozens follow. Games grow through
innovations. Creations of new game styles that spawn imitators and
whole new markets. The story of the past few decades is not about
graphics and processing power, but startling innovation and industry.
That's why we love games. BUT IT'S OVER NOW!
As recently as 1992: games cost 200K. Next generation games will cost
20m. Publishers are becoming increasingly risk averse. Today you
cannot get an innovative title published unless your last name is
Wright or Miyamoto. Who was at the Microsoft keynote? I don't know
about you but it made my flesh crawl. [laughter] The HD era? Bigger,
louder? Big bucks to be made! Well not by you and me of course. Those
budgets and teams ensure the death of innovation. Was your allegiance
bought at the price of a television? Then there was the Nintendo
keynote. This was the company who established the business model that
has crucified the industry today.. Iwata-san has the heart of a gamer,
and my question is what poor bastard's chest did he carve it from?
[audience falls about]
How often DO they perform human sacrifices at Nintendo?? My friends,
we are FUCKED [laughter]. We are well and truly fucked. The bar in
terms of graphics and glitz has been raised and raised until we can't
afford to do anything at all. 80 hour weeks until our jobs are all
outsourced to Asia. but it's ok because the HD era is here right? I
say, enough. The time has come for revolution! It may seem to you that
what I describe is inevitable forces of history, but no, we have free
will! EA could have chosen to focus on innovation, but they did not.
Nintendo could make development kits cheaply available to small firms,
but they prefer to rely on the creativity on one aging designer. You
have choices too: work in a massive sweatshop publisher-run studio
with thousands of others making the next racing game with the same
gameplay as Pole Position. Or you can riot in the streets of redwood
city! Choose another business model, development path, and you can
choose to remember why you love games and make sure in a generation's
time there are still games to love. You can start today.
[standing ovation]
LinkRants And Raves: iPod Promoters Feel The
Heat
Rants And Raves: iPod Promoters Feel The
Heat
09/24/2004 09:25 AMLike many others, I was completely screwed by the FreeiPods.com
scheme. By Mike Amburn, Tyler Derheim, and John Borell, Wired News
(via MyAppleMenu)
Brad Oliver, long time Mac developer,
rants about ...
Brad Oliver, long time Mac developer,
rants about ...
10/31/2003 07:24 PM
Brad Oliver, long time Mac developer, rants about the sorry states of Mac installers and third-party Mac tools. I
have to agree on the Mac installers front. If all you're doing is
making a Cocoa app to distribute via a dmg file, you're fine. If you
need to install kernel extensions, etc, you're going to have a
miserable time of it.
12:45 AM
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Joel Spolsky and the Temple of Doom
Joel Spolsky and the Temple of Doom
06/19/2004 10:41 AMI'm back, with a very interesting topic too!
Joel Spolsky, ex-Microsoft Manager and software engineering guru has a
new essay, How
Microsoft Lost the API War that is creating quite a big storm in
the blogging communitiy.
Joel posits that the priests in the holy Temple of Microsoft have lost
their way, because it has split into two factions, and the wrong
faction is winning. One faction worships on the alter of backward
compatibility, while the other is led by fervent priests who are
proselytizing to raise up the new gods of .NET and Longhorn. Joel
suggests that the new gods will cause the destruction of the holy
Temple because Microsoft's great victories were built on the altar of
keeping customers happy with backward compatibility. Furthermore the
old gods of the Windows API continue to grow more grotesque and cruel
with the passing of time, driving former worshipers into the arms of
the friendlier gods of World Wide Web.
This story sounds extremely plausible. I must admit that i fit the
profile of the developer who used to develop on the Window's API, is
familiar with COM and Win32 who now develops mostly using PHP and
Python. However I continue to develop and maintain Windows apps that
keep our customers happy. There's something fishy about his plausible
argument. Some points:
Temple of the Blind?
Firstly, Microsoft is still a compelling place to work for to people
who feel that they can make a difference. The Temple continues to
attract talented people with a Unix background. For example we have
the recent hiring of Ward Cunningham, author of the Wiki. Microsoft
is still able to keep talented people like Raymond Chen, and others
like him who continue to look after the Windows API, and Longhorn
apparently will still give high priority to backward compatibility.
Open sourcerers like Miguel Icaza are sufficiently attracted to
the .NET vision to stake their careers on Mono. Longhorn and .NET are
compelling technologies, so even if Win32 is not so cute anymore,
M'soft is providing something over the horizon that remains very
attractive.
Temple of the Spider?
Secondly, people don't merely use a web browser. They run the web
browser in the OS. So let me ask you, if you are using DreamWeaver or
HomeSite or Photoshop or vi or emacs or Gimp, how many of you are
willing to give it up for a java applet (or whatever your favorite
technology is) running in your web-browser? Precisely.
Temple of the Abandoned?
Third, Joel makes the extravagant claim that developers are not
developing to the Windows API. Well if you are using a framework like
Delphi or wxWindows then you certainly are insulated from the Windows
API, but that doesn't mean that you're not calling the Windows API all
the time. I don't see Borland dropping their Windows version of Delphi
at any point in time. Joel's argument that developers are dropping
Windows like flies sounds attractive to those who have swallowed the
open source kool-aid, but i don't think that it fully matches reality.
Temple of the Lost
I do think that Microsoft's IE team has lost their way, and are
probably pawns in a bigger game, but that doesn't mean that Microsoft
has already lost. And the open source world would be a much poorer
place without worthy competitors such as Windows and MacOS.
Joel Spolsky is a first-class writer, in the same order as Philip
Greenspun or Eric Raymond. That makes him persuasive and plausible. I
think that we aren't talking about Indiana Jones and doomed temples
here, but Steve Jobs and reality distortion fields.
Other opinions: Harry
Fuecks,
Robert McLaws and Oliver Travers.
Billy Joel Unhurt After N.Y. Car Wreck
(AP)
Billy Joel Unhurt After N.Y. Car Wreck
(AP)
04/25/2004 08:34 PMAP - Singer Billy Joel was involved in his third car accident in two
years Sunday when he slammed into a house on a wet road on Long
Island. No one was seriously injured.
Joel on Software - How Microsoft Lost
the API War
Joel on Software - How Microsoft Lost
the API War
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Singer Billy Joel in car accident
Singer Billy Joel in car accident
04/26/2004 03:31 AMSinger Billy Joel is involved in his third car accident in two years
after his vehicle hit a house.
N.Y. Woman Expects Joel to Pay for
Damages (AP)
N.Y. Woman Expects Joel to Pay for
Damages (AP)
04/27/2004 02:40 PMAP - A 93-year-old woman whose house was damaged when Billy Joel
slammed into it with his car had never heard of the Long Island singer
until the accident, but now she expects him to pay for repairs.
Joel sets the matter straight
Joel sets the matter straight
06/09/2004 05:54 AMRDF-simple-API.
RDF-simple-API
Submitted by joeldg on Tue, 06/08/2004 - 16:11.
There is currently a lot of talk on the rdfdev list
over converting a version of RAP to work with a simple FOAF parser
that only needs to grab a few things.
Well, I agree with this on principle, I also
feel that 'feature creep' is what kills (or at least partially dooms a
lot of projects) and as I used to tell overzealous project managers
"Lets just get this working with the minimal features first" before
going head over heels into some bell or whistle or 'blinky-light' you
(or the client) would like to see in it.
I usually try to work this way. I manage most
of the time but often even I get stuck in the "it has to do
'everything'" mode and that will kill my productivity for a day or two
until I grab myself and shake for a while until I am back to the
"core" of what needs to be done.
When I worked as a systems analyst and would be
creating diagrams of core functionality for this or that it really
helped refine for developers (which I also was one of) and everyone
involved because it gave you a map. (last count I have done DFD's,
ERD's etc and even data dictionaries for over a hundred projects that
have been brought to completion for clients.)
So, lets just have a nice map for where this is
going "before" jumping off a proverbial bridge and then trying to
swing a grappling hook back up as we are falling.
Ask a few
questions (I know it seems simple, but bear with me):
1) What
does it 'need' to do?
2) What language(s) does it 'need' to be done
in?
3) What does the client want that can wait for a later refine
and further work? (i.e. what can they live without that they say they
cannot?)
4) What exactly do we need to do to support this?
5)
and finally, is there something that 'works' currently out there so we
don't have to do this at all? (programmers are lazy by
nature...)
Note the use of the word "need" above, if
it does not fit in that, it is extra and can wait or be
tossed.
As an example, for core functionality of FOAFnet, why
the hell would we ever want to put in WOT or airport codes? It is not
and will never be needed for that. (For sub-projects yes, but not for
FOAFnet core)
Anyway, I propose a marriage of a couple of
things.
1) a
pre-existing
class that has already been done that can handle
everything we currently need (triples-based-parsing) and it is faster
than RAP and sits at around 30k if you rip the comments.
2) my little rdf->tree parser which is easy.
(
here is the source) which is geared
towards being nothing but fast but is easily extensible with more
functions. (it fufills some of my core functionality for simplicity
and has already proved itself in the "real world" for a scutter I
wrote to comb through foafs (lj, typepad etc all that)
I think
that joining those two is perfect and that I what I will be working
on. RAP for base level usuage will still be too big because once you
made room to put in the kitchen sink you can't unmake the
room.
Another reality (that some people are going to have to be
force-fed) is that people who handroll their FOAF's are currently in
the MAJOR minority [editor's note:
sorry]. Almost all FOAF being used today is
generated on the big sites and uses only a small portion of the FOAF
vocab and then only the most stable and useful portions [of FOAF] or
portions that are easy to infer from their current data.
A lot of people are seriously paranoid about
privacy issues. For instance, the most oft asked question about
the
MeNowDocument
vocab is privacy issues. i.e. do people really need to know this about
me, and would anyone really care? I feel I have addressed a lot of
these issues in the spec itself (i.e. it is obviously optional, and
scripts handle most of it.) Anyway I digress.
Handrolled
FOAF's I predict will cease to exist within a year or two at most.
[editor's note:
here
here]This is a "machine" readable and
"writable" format people, and honestly, how often do you "view source"
on webpages anymore?
Feel free to disagree, but if you do, at
least let me know why.
Joel has been getting attacked for writing a
simple, fast, highly optimized FOAF parser that ONLY recognizes the
parts of FOAF - which are in our FOAFnet spec.
On one side you can say "that's all we need, so
let's not worry about anything else" - while on the other side
you can fear that your well tuned, highly refined, incredibly elegant
architecture and plans - which aren't done yet - will never happen,
because your spec is being highjacked by short term thinking
malcontents.
Guess which side I'm on?
Folks just have to realize that we have to take
baby steps before we can walk. It's really hard to get 25-50
companies - to all agree on a spec for passing entire social networks
between systems.
But we promise - we really do - that we'll add
more FOAF vocabulary - juicy items like Node ID,
foaf:knows or rel:acquaintance - just as soon
as we get really basic import/export working - with JUST:
- name
- image (depiction)
- email (sha1sum encrypted)
- and a list of names of
friends
That's it.
This is a message that Joel De Gan needed to send
to the FOAFnet and rdfweb heads who were trying to tell him that his
optmized parser was........
Billy Joel Gets a Star in Hollywood (AP)
Billy Joel Gets a Star in Hollywood (AP)
09/20/2004 11:07 PMAP - Billy Joel wrote the song, "Say Goodbye to Hollywood." On Monday,
he joked he'd never leave. "It looks like I'm always going be here,"
Joel said after his sidewalk star was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame. "I have to tell you that I had not considered this when I
wrote 'Say Goodbye to Hollywood.'"
Joel Gives College Advice For
Programmers
Joel Gives College Advice For
Programmers
01/05/2005 03:57 PMJoel on Software - Tuesday, June 15,
2004
Joel on Software - Tuesday, June 15,
2004
06/16/2004 03:59 AMWhy to switch web browsers today .. Joel On Software likes it ..
there's a new call .. June 15, 2004 ..
Joel
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Joel gets on the social interface design
bandwagon
Joel gets on the social interface design
bandwagon
09/09/2004 09:16 AM
He
re's an excellent rant by Joel Spolsky (pointed to me via Tim
Lundeen - thanks Tim.)
Joel has been around the block - so it's reassuring to see him grok
this - the most basic of assumptions on the future of software. Its
not just usability anymore - it's about human-human interaction -
social interface design.
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