Apps designed for smart people
f you read the same blogs I do, you may recognise where I got the title of this post from. An email from Mike Vanier that was published on Paul Graham’s website describes the difference between computer languages designed for smart programmers and “the massesâ€.
It recently struck me that a similar divide applies to users as well as programmers, and that programs exist to cater to both smart users and the others. (more…)
How to tell if you are a Microsoft fanatic
Although Linux and Mac users have reputations for fanaticism, I have noticed that Windows users are more irrationally loyal. Are you one of them? (more…)
Why I use open source
This blog post got me thinking about the reasons I most often hear for using open source software are the freedom it gives users, its usually high quality, and the lack of vendor lock-in.
I have one more reason: transparency. (more…)
Thanks
I have mentioned my other sites and the various changes but some thanks and acknowledgements are needed.
All three of my sites are running on Wordpress. Although known as blog software (and that it what it is in the default configuration) it is very versatile and makes a great CMS for many sites. The support forums are very invaluable. The most useful for me of the many plugins I have tried have been The_excerpt Reloaded (which allowed my to show excerpts to the length I wanted) and WP-Cache (which made my sites noticably faster loading). (more…)
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