Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, has a valuable piece of advice on building a great product, citing examples of Gmail and iPod: If you’re creating a new product, what are the three (or fewer) key features that will make it so great that you can cut or half-ass everything else? Are you focusing at least 80% of your effort on getting those three things right? Very nicely and concisely put. [Continue]
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Get OpenID With Google Profiles
Google profiles can be now used as OpenIDs. Unlike the federated login, now Google will allow the profile URLs will work with any site that accepts the generic OpenID. Though this is good for OpenID, I doubt of the average Joe is aware of Google profiles itself. [Continue]
Only Your Decision Is Remembered, Not Your Reasons
Whether it is one of the smallest decisions, or those of the higest stake, it is the decision that is talked about and recorded. If your decision leads to success, it gets celebrated. However, if does not, you can very easily become the victim. [Continue]
WordPress Wins Overall Best Open Source CMS Award
Packt Publishing has selected WordPress as the overall best open source CMS for 2009. The thing to note here is that it is in the category of overall CMS, not just blogging. Hopefully this will make it easier to convince those executives to consider WordPress for web sites. [Continue]
A Mouse For OpenOffice
OpenOfficeMouse (via Paul Mison) does appear strange. We are not used to seeing hardware built around specific applications. Nor are we used to seeing 18 buttons on a mouse, it is almost like keyboard on a mouse. [Continue]
C++Next Will Help
C++Next is a new site focusing on C++ language. Nowadays a programming language need something more than its own features – a community that can illustrate its benefits through applications and writings as it evolves. And if there is any language that needs it the most, it is C++. [Continue]
Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation
Microsoft has established CodePlex foundation – a non-profit foundation to promote open source. Unlike the previous open source attempts, this time Microsoft has explicitly talked about collaboration with other open source foundations and communities. I see this as first step by Microsoft to acknowledge good Windows open source work happening outside Microsoft. [Continue]
Benefits of GPL
As a fresh software engineer, I had always wished if we could do away with software licensing altogether. It was one way for me, as a software programmer, to avoid knowing and understanding the legal binding. The programming language is a lot better than the legal one any given day! [Continue]
Blogging, For Students
Matt Jadud has written a guide for students on blogging. It is a must read for any student who is looking at doing more with his/her academic work. Blogging is one of the best ways for students to communicate with rest of the world, including the industry. [Continue]
XHTML 2 To Be Aborted
W3C has decided to abort the XHTML 2 effort. It is said that this will allow more time and effort towards HTML 5. There were some indications towards lack of interest in the XHTML evolution, so this is not exactly a surprise. [Continue]
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