Archive for the 'Links' Category

More Clever GMail Ads for Programmers

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Just like the folks from Jane Street Capital, Swivel really knows how to write good, eye-catching ad copy (for some crazy subset of the population):

APP Interop Pictures

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

I took a couple of quick shots of the group:

and the grid:

More details on my xml.com blog post.
Tim Bray has better photos here.

“Literate” Programming, Technical Writing

Friday, March 16th, 2007

There’s been some recent discussion on ruby-talk about “literate” programming after the new O’Reilly title Beautiful Code was announced (Matz has written an essay for it). Matz’s response made me listen to all-things-Knuth, so I was pleased to read Philip Wadler’s post today on Three ways to improve your writing, which includes a PDF link [...]

GMail Getting Nicer

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

GMail gets more out of UPS’s web services