January 20, 2007 at 2:26 pm · tags: DotNET Misc Python Ruby Web
Tim O’Reilly published his analysis about the market of computer books’ sales.
With this kinds of trends you can have a feeling about what leads in the market categories and what doesn’t.
I’m not surprised seeing Ruby (+53%) ahead of Python (+37%) and Perl (-21%), nor to see how books about the web design and development are on the edge. What surprised me most is seeing a +106% regarding SQL Server (!!)… it should be connected to the spread of .NET (that has surpassed Java).
Nice to hear Mac OSX books sale is the only positive trend 
January 13, 2007 at 11:35 am · tags: Web
Firebug is a very good piece of software, and that’s not a common thing. So thanks Joe for coding and releasing it as opensource.
This is really the best tool every web developer should ask for!
September 6, 2006 at 10:52 pm · tags: Web
Ready to start the next killer-application-based-web-2.0-startup?
Whenever you start a business the logical thing is to start with an idea that everyone needs. Everyone needs to eat so grocery stores and restaraunts exist and will probably always exist. Gas stations exist because we need gas. Simple ideas that fulfill our needs and do a good amount of business. All very common sense right?
from I Don’t Need the Web
It’s all about practical, common sense.
May 7, 2005 at 1:13 am · tags: Web
Didn’t you heard about 37Signals rants about Google Web Accelerator?
I quoted some posts/comments/interesting points of view (you’ll be the judge): Read the rest of this entry »
August 11, 2004 at 10:48 am · tags: Web
Anne van Kesteren came through well known (but invalid) IE blog mantained by the Microsoft Internet Explorer Team, seems all good except for a couple of sentences that made him (Anne is a male) laugh:
“We also came up with a very original idea – popup blocking”
Everyone but them knows that they are the last ones implementing popup blocking in a browser
and the second one:
“so it’s a heck of a lot more secure than pretty much any other browser”
That’s made laugh also myself but… let’s wait, we shall see if it’s really true 
ps. don’t name “web standards support” (what the heck IE is made for if not for the web??) because they will ignore you
October 14, 2003 at 9:05 pm · tags: Web
Today the W3C has published XForms 1.0 as a Recommendation. Hooray!
now playing: Aretha Franklin & Otis Redding collection
August 30, 2003 at 1:31 am · tags: Python Web
Simon Willison speaks about mod_python. I’m getting lost in the plethora of modules/cms/templating system/web frameworks for Python. Here is a “must look at” list:
- Webware: provides Python Server Pages, CGIs, Servlets and so on…
- Cheetah: a complete and powerful templating system, it works and integrates with Webware.
- Draco: a web framework that provides sessions, persistence via DBMS, events and more.
- Twisted Matrix: the coolest and yet powerful “tool” that I’ve ever seen. If you are involved in network programming with Python you definitely must take a look at Twisted Matrix and if you don’t know Python….then learn it and use Twisted!
- Zope: Do you manage to write a web application like Amazon? Three clicks and you’ve got a working shopping cart. Zope is the word in this kinda things. Fast, powerful, lot of plugins, Plone (for CMS), ZODB (object oriented DB), an unlimited community…
For a detailed overview of the whole plethora of tools see Python.org Web Programming Wiki
June 27, 2003 at 8:02 pm · tags: Web
The Web Standards Project published an article whose title is: End of Free IE Not the End of Web Standards. Check it out.
June 24, 2003 at 10:01 am · tags: Web
Robert Scoble comments the latest Zeldman assertion about web tools and standards, and continues with a clever hint about RSS and the future.
June 21, 2003 at 10:13 am · tags: DotNET Web
Jeffrey Zeldman (you definitely must know who is him) made an appeal to Microsoft to improve their .NET standards compliancy. Hope this will be a reality in the future (maybe with Whidbey release).
