November 2009
3 posts
Apple should lower their prices. Not.
I am sick of hearing all around things like:
Hey, Apple hardware/software is awesome, but is too pricey! They should lower their prices and then sell millions and crush everyone! And then masses could bathe everyday in Apple goodness!
Apple cares less about market share. Apple cares about profit by relying on excellence.
It’s just like exotic cars. Of course Porsche, or Ferrari, or...
MonoRail custom scaffolded views
A long time ago, I needed (and still need) Castle MonoRail to use custom NVelocity scaffolded views instead of the embedded ones. This feature is supposed to be present, unfortunately a bug prevents it from picking filenames correctly.
I reported MR-ISSUE-537 with the text above and a patch against svn revision 5884. We’re at r6332, the patch still applies cleanly (read: it has not been...
Underrated technology
Since the advent of graphical environments, the desktop metaphor has become the core of the modern computer experience. It is the very first thing a user will experience of his computer. It is also the least spoken about, and quite underrated.
The desktop metaphor presents a number of interesting side-effects inferred from its very design, or rather non-design. Being a bunch of icons of any kind...
