29 June 2003

29Jun2003

Joel Spolsky is right again

By carlfish on

Too many software developers just can't bring themselves to implement completely invisible features. They need to show off about what a great feature they just implemented, even at the cost of confusing people. Really great UI design disappears.

29Jun2003

Namespaces and RSS2.0

By carlfish on

The problem that Namespaces were introduced into RSS to solve was: lots of different people want to add their own custom extensions to RSS. Since RSS is such a small domain, the chances of two people coming up with identical tags with different semantics is actually quite high.