Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
So as Bonnie posted in yesterday's News Of The Day, we've got a few announcements from Apple during their "Back To The Mac" event. I found none of these surprising – that isn't a bad thing, actually – but I think it bears closer analysis as it gives us ideas of trends we see both in Apple technology, but in other technologies as well.
These, of course, are going to affect us progeeks, so I feel it's worth calling them out.
I used to have a tradition in my programming days, of going to the Interface Hall of Shame (now quite out of date http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/) to find out the latest things not to do. And yes, as you guessed, my programming days were quite awhile ago.
Anyway, to get away from my age to the subject, one of the things I learned as a programmer was that designing a good interface was not obvious. Most people designed interfaces with . . . well I'm not sure what they had in *mind* since thinking was not often part of the process. Let's just say I saw some bad stuff.
I was doing another round of link research for the blog (you'll see some new resources soon), and once again Bonnie and I ran into another round of dead sites. You've heard me rant about this before – there's so many blogs and sites out there they would be awesome, interesting, and progeeky if they were actually updated.
In ranting to a friend, he simply said, "Oh, like Geocities?" That stopped me in my mental tracks.