Catching Up: Links Galore. I have a lot of links waiting for publication here, so off we go…
I have mentioned Erlang already on May 7th, and here’s another Erlang resource that piqued my interest:ErlyWeb – The Erlang Twist on Web Frameworks – that’s a framework with a strong Rails flavor. If I’m to believe what I read about Erlang, the language has been around for quite some time and is capable of scaling up very succesfully – that’s a promising starting point.
The Photoshop Tutorial Blog contains excellent and detailed descriptions of how to achieve specific objectives in PS. Well done!
These days, you don’t need to keep a copy on your hard disk of a program that you use only occasionally: either you can download it as needed, or you use a web application that does what you need. Wehn you have to pick a neat color scheme for your design, surf to ColorSchemes.org and pick an online tool – or browse the other resources on offer.
The real problems of Web 2.0 are beginning to show themselves, and no: they’re not technical! You could say these two incidents are about “ownership” of content and how to handle it: Digg.com CEO says site is ‘aligned with the users’ is about censorship on collaborative sites, and Yahoo ‘censored’ Flickr comments is not just about censorship, but also about how to enforce copyright ownership. These topics will continue to haunt us for quite a while, I fear.
Always useful: Cool OSX Apps.
Ajax may be fun, but can it deliver – in terms of performance that is? Well, Thanks for the help! And now, some results.