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Links for 14 October 05

  • Greg Storey has written a great article about why having a strategy is so important for websites, entitled Never Start A Land War In Asia (or Build a Website for No Reason). Amazingly, neither the title nor the quote below is the best thing about the article. So you should really read it.

    “In a perfect world, the client would’ve had the business rules worked out prior to starting a project, leaving the designer to wallow in artistic brilliance while a co-ed rolls by on a Segway drinking a soy protein shake, but as you all know, utopia doesn’t exist and it’s almost impossible to drive a Segway with one hand.”

  • There’s a great little tutorial about writing quick analytical programs with django. It’s a wonderful illustration of why doing things quickly and adhoc can be really powerful
  • MJ has found some WONDERFUL tshirts. Go help her choose which one to get
  • Dave’s put his full articles back on the front page! Yay!
  • This little insight of Aaron’s is really quite scary
  • Matt has written a wonderful, heartfelt, informative and lovely article about his son and his recently diagnosed ASD. Definitely worth a read. via Mr Haughey
  • Over at DaringFireball, there’s a rundown of Wednesday’s Mac announcements — the most interesting thing to me is that the new iPods don’t have firewire. At all. This is quite surprising — I thought that iPods might actually drag the rest of the world into using Firewire, not that they’d abandon it. As iPod sizes increase, I would have thought fast computer < --> device transfer would have gotten more important, not less
  • Jeremy has the best summary of what microformats are EVER. Incidentally, Mark Pilgrim rocks especially when he’s doing his battle-hardened standards warrior bit
Posted by Meri @ 9:38 AM on October 14, 2005
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